Pope Francis at the Vatican opened his speech for Easter Mass with a rather unexpected “quoicoubeh”.
Pope Francis made a point of addressing the youth for the Holy Sunday Mass of Easter. In St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, he gave a long religious speech tinged with references to teenagers. It began, to everyone’s surprise, with a welcome quoicoubeh, which puzzled the conservative cardinals. In any case, this message made middle and high school students laugh and was hailed on social networks such as instagram, snapchat or tiktok, where influencers broadcast montages of Pope Francis repeating the expression hundreds of times.
A disputed rejuvenation
Most European cardinals, archbishops and bishops reacted coldly to this speech, which they felt deviated too much from religious precepts and the importance of the Easter holiday. Commemorating the resurrection of Jesus by Quoicoubeh remains indeed surprising. But some want to see a message there: that of the resurrection of Catholicism through youth, who are more and more sensitive to conversion and rites. Will Quoicoubeh seminars or catechism classes rekindle the flame? The experience will surely be worth trying, but risks being a real way of the cross.
