Wrong. The vatican has its own official pope vendors. What do you think happens to those who sell ‘unofficial’ pope plates? Are they fined? Or jailed? Or just prayed for? And what’s wrong with selling those items, if mean, if I have a room full of foam, and I know how to make pope hats, then what’s wrong with trying to help my family out by selling merchandise celebrating his visit? Because they are not legally recognized by the vatican, and therefore cannot be sold. Who needs help more, the poor family who can sew, or the ermine laden pope who preaches sacrifice and rejection of worldly success to everyone while having his people check the daily concession receipts? HYPOCRISY is the right word..
The naysayers deeply resent the Pope's profile as the most world's most visible and articulate spokesperson for the Christian religion. Not to mention the most respected. In certain quarters, some of them supposedly "Christian", he's also the most hated. On occasions such as this when he makes state visits and lectures the princes of this world, that resentment becomes impossible to contain.
This leads to accusations that he himself is a celebrity, although he isn't but his high profile is such a source of irritation that rationality goes out the window. This in turn leads to rejection or ignoring of his timely message to young people in favor of peripheral issues such as souvenirs and accusations of hypocrisy.
The hypocrisy of the naysayers is to be found precisely in the fact that they agree with the Pope's fundamental message about the dangers of the "celebrity" culture but such is their personal animosity towards him that they cannot bring themselves to support his ministry even when they agree with his message and instead attack him.
Tragic.