So the Pope is ignoring the gay nomination hoping it goes away...?
How about just saying: No... but thanks anyway...
Send me someone who is not living in open sin...
“How about just saying: No... but thanks anyway...
Send me someone who is not living in open sin...”
Diplomatic protocol in the Vatican is decidedly old school and very nuanced. In the Holy See the silent treatment pretty much amounts to exactly what you just wrote. It is a diplomatic rebuke that the French are likely to find all the more insulting because of the very ancien regime tone to the dismissal of their nominee.
Francis is not ‘hoping it goes away’.
He has formally rejected the gay French ‘ambassador’, which means the French will have to nominate another person, probably an Islamist.
AMDG