Key word here is "secret". Davis didn't keep the meeting a secret. She didn't keep her word. Her word means nothing.
There's a scripture about doing good in secret and being rewarded openly. My view is, she should have kept her mouth shut about the 'secret' meeting, cherished it if it was a positive experience for her. Now that meeting has been tarnished publicly. Is she praying for the pope like he asked her to? Not my business if she does, it's her secret to keep.
Disregarding the gay couple, who were the other people who met with the pope? Why aren't they speaking out? Are they keeping their meeting a secret or were there no other people meeting with the pope?
At the end of the day, none of this matters. The pope is useless. Davis has her battles to fight with no shortcuts. Since she's not a Catholic, maybe she would have have better success with a Buddhist priest.
Her word means a lot to me.
There's nothing in print that say she was told to keep the meeting secret "forever." My impression was that they didn't want Kim to be accused of media-whoring / pre-empting / highjacking the whole Papal Trip Epic by a premature disclosure.
I never read anywhere that it was supposed to be hush-hush permanently.
The meeting took place Tuesday, Sept. 24, just minutes before Pope Francis' flight back to Rome. The story wasn't made public until Tuesday, Sept. 29, after the Pope had been back home for five days, and journos were writing their wrap-ups. The story didn't debut with the wire-services or the networks, but with Robert Moynihan's "Inside the Vatican" journal.
Reading that article was refreshing. Reading the follow-ups was an on-going, first-class headache. That's not Kim Davis' fault, nor the Pope's fault either. I blame it on the EneMedia and their snakey clerical friends who never miss a chance to drag an honest woman --- Kim Davis--- through the gutters of their minds.