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Didn’t the women know they were to wear chapel veils and be dressed in black?

They must have received a special dispensation, since the pope have power he can exercise unhindered, regardless of what was once required or exhorted.

The levitous coziness with the pope here indicts such ministers as serious compromisers with Truth, and the pope as conveying sanction of what in the past would be deplored.

No one shall join in prayers with heretics or schismatics. - Council of Laodicea, can. 33.

Do not converse with heretics even for the sake of defending the faith, for fear lest their words instil their poison in your mind. Bl. Isaias Boner of Krakow (Polish, Augus tinian priest, theologian, professor of Scripture, d. 1471)

“the Church forbids the faithful to communicate with those unbelievers who have forsaken the faith they once received, either by corrupting the faith, as heretics, or by entirely renouncing the faith, as apostates, because the Church pronounces sentence of excommunication on both.” St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica; http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3010.htm

Pope Leo X: That it is against the will of the Spirit to burn heretics at the stake is condemned as false. (Pope Leo X, “Exsurge Domino,” 1520)

• Pope Innocent IV, Ad extirpanda: The head of state or ruler must force all the heretics whom he has in custody,{8} provided he does so without killing them or breaking their arms or legs,as actual robbers and murderers of souls and thieves of the sacraments of God and Christian faith, to confess their errors and accuse other heretics whom they know, and specify their motives, {9} and those whom they have seduced, and those who have lodged them and defended them,as thieves and robbers of material goods are made to accuse their accomplices and confess the crimes they have committed.

Those convicted of heresy by the aforesaid Diocesan Bishop,surrogate or inquisitors, shall be taken in shackles to the head of state or ruler or his special representative, instantly,or at least within five days, and the latter shall apply the regulations promulgated against such persons...- http://userwww.sfsu.edu/%7Edraker/history/Ad_Extirpanda.html

I doubt that dispensations are granted.

This is just the proper protocol for people meeting the Pope.

You do realize, I hope, that he is trying to bring people back into the Church, don’t you?

Duplicitous comes to mind.

I have to question the wisdom of a man who would associate with Ken Copeland.

Add that to his recent islam fiasco and I’ll tell you, he’s absolutely lacking in discernment.