And yet he was upset with the hammer and sickle crucifix.
He wasn’t upset with it. He was actually already wearing one around his neck.
It turns out that whatever he said (I didn’t see the video, which has now disappeared) was so indistinct that nobody can make it out, and the word that he said “this is not good” was from a tweet from one of his friends, no doubt trying to protect him.
Fr. Lombardi came out yesterday and said that he had to clarify, and the “Pope did not have a negative reaction to the gift” and wanted it made clear that he had not asked Fr. Lombardi to say that he had a negative reaction. Truly disturbing.
Yeah. But perhaps it was due to the fact that the significance of Jesus being crucified on the hammer has several interpretations. One of which being the eradication of God under communism.
He was surprised, not upset. He went to the memorial of the Jesuit priest who first created the image before he saw the President.
He’s also wearing the same image.
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