Really?
Pope Benedict Strongly Rebukes Pelosi Over Abortion
>> Yeah, sure no POSED photo-op. There were pictures and video of the Holy Father greeting Her Heinousness. <<
I entered "Pelosi Benedict" in Google's image search, and didn't see any pictures of him greeting her in Rome. The closest was a picture of her bowing to him in President Bush's rose garden reception. I went through several hundred pictures. Not one of her in Rome with Benedict. If there are any such pictures, they were not widely published.
My experience was with VIDEO coverage on local news. Another Freeper indicated that FoxNews showed a smiling Pope greeting Pelosi. Now, this may have been archival footage, but that really doesn’t matter. In the absence of a refusal to meet with Pelosi, or an overt, public direction to abstain from taking Holy Communion, that image is ALL that most people are going to remember.
A picture showing a smiling Holy Father greeting Pelosi was, for some reason, pulled from this thread (Comment 10). This, too may have been from a prior meeting.
BUT AGAIN, my point has nothing to do with the devout, informed Catholics who are paying attention.
To the casual Catholics and the rest of the Christian world, Pelosi was seen in the mass media, as being greeted by the Pope and nothing overt was said regarding her staunch support of abortion.
Images, even if oudated, were allowed to trump any message of admonition.
There is much concern about the message that allowing Obama to speak at Notre Dame sends to the laity and perhaps the rest of the world regarding Catholicism. Logically, this is in the same vein.
Do you really think anyone but the non-devout read articles from the Catholic New Agency?
Ask your casual Catholic friends or other Christians what they know about Pelosi’s visit with the Holy Father?
Ask them if they are aware of the Holy Father’s “strong rebuke”.