Kimbal Musk sank his bid to offer the
Vatican a special drone-backed lights show for the Roman
Catholic Holy Year Jubilee by applying to the wrong official and
falling foul of the Holy See's soft but rigid protocol.
Businessman Kimbal, who at 52 is a year younger than the world's
richest man his brother Elon, sported his trademark cowboy's hat
as he made the offer with the wife of Italian supertenor Andrea
Bocelli, Veronica Berti, after talks at the office of Premier
Giorgia Meloni with Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli and
subsequently at the Campidoglio with Rome Mayor Roberto
Gualtieri.
Musk was interested in putting on a drone and lights display for
the Teenagers Jubilee in April.
But from what has been learned from well-informed sources,
instead of the Pope's delegate for organizing the Jubilee,
namely Archbishop Rino Fisichella, pro-prefect of the Dicastery
for Evangelization, Kimbal Musk and Bocelli's wife turned to
Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica and
the Pope's vicar for Vatican City, who has a track record of
backing Church tech projects.
The misdirected approach backfired and for now the drone-light
show is on the Vatican backburner, at least until the proper
protocol is respected, said the sources.
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