Posted on 10/02/2015 2:04:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A week after Pope Francis met Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk jailed for her refusal to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples, the Vatican on Friday suggested that she exploited the meeting to promote her views, denied that the pope fully supports her and cast doubt on her account of the encounter.
The Vatican later noted that the only “audience” Francis had at the gathering in Washington was with a former student of the pope, Yayo Grassi, an openly gay Argentine who along with his longtime partner and some friends met with Francis.
Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a statement that Grassi, "who had already met other times in the past with the pope, asked to present several friends to the pope during the pope’s stay in Washington, D.C."
A video posted online shows Grassi embracing the pope and introducing him to his partner, as well as an Argentine woman and some Asian friends.
The statements together seemed intended to distance the pope from Davis.
Davis spent nearly a week in jail after she defied a Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage in the United States. Last week, she said she had met Francis at the Nunciature, the Vatican's U.S. office, in Washington on Sept 24 during his U.S. visit, where she said he told her during a 15-minute meeting to “stay strong.”
"Just knowing that the pope is on track with what we're doing and agreeing, you know, it kind of validates everything,” she told ABC News.
Reports of the meeting between Davis and the pope were taken by conservative groups as evidence that Francis fully supported her refusal to authorize same-sex marriages. Backers of such unions charged that the pope had been used by Davis.
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Are you saying he is not?
I have no idea. I just asked if you are saying Thomas Rosica is a pedophile.
I always assume all robed papists are.
Anyone who assumes that, manifests unjust judgment. This is a serious sin, forbidden by God.
I’ll say a few hail marys.... that should get me off the hook.
Repent, and bear fruit worthy of repentance. Luke 3:8
The only papist I listen to is Ann Barnhardt.
I read Barnhardt too. It’s a good start.
She’s one of the very few that ‘gets it’.
There’s more than a few, my dear Godebert.
Not enough to save our republic.
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