Pope Francis and Joe Biden at the White House on September 23, 2015. (photo: David Lienemann / Public domain) Posted on 06/15/2021 7:56:13 AM PDT by ebb tide
The President's entourage had originally requested for President Biden to attend Mass with the Pope early in the morning, but the proposal was nixed by the Vatican
Pope Francis and Joe Biden at the White House on September 23, 2015. (photo: David Lienemann / Public domain)
June 15, 2021
Editor's Note: According to Vatican sources June 15, there is no meeting currently scheduled between Pope Francis and President Joe Biden. The story has been amended in light of this breaking news.
VATICAN CITY — President Joe Biden's attendance at early morning Mass with Pope Francis has been nixed from an early plan of the June 15 meeting of both leaders, a reliable Vatican source told CNA.
President Biden, who is in Europe for several high level meetings, had taken the morning of June 15 off to meet Pope Francis as President of the United States for the first time. The President's entourage had originally requested for Biden to attend Mass with the Pope early in the morning, but the proposal was nixed by the Vatican after considering the impact that President Biden receiving Holy Communion from the Pope would have on the discussions the USCCB is planning to have during their meeting starting Wednesday, June 16. The U.S. bishops are slated to vote on creating a committee that would draft a document about Eucharistic coherence.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
Pure cosmetics to conceal Bergoglio's evil plans.
Ping
Were they fighting over who got first sniff?
Good for Biden that they cancelled that... if he’s unrepentent about rigging an election but takes communion anyway, he’d be bringing judgement down upon himself.
Wonder if they will give him a photo l.p.. Benedict didn’t let Pelosi have one when she visited.
US bishops’ conference denies any wrongdoing in ongoing Peter’s Pence lawsuit, blames parishioners
WASHINGTON, April 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — In an ongoing case regarding the use of Peter’s Pence donations, lawyers for the U.S. bishops have asserted that parishioners were aware (or at least ought to have been) that their money could be used by the Holy See for any purpose, despite their own advertisement to the contrary.
The Peter’s Pence lawsuit was originally filed in January 2020 against the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) by the Stanley Law Group based in Dallas, Texas, representing a Class Action brought by Catholic layman David O’Connell. The suit raises allegations against the USCCB’s promotion of Peter’s Pence, accusing the episcopal conference of “actively” misleading Catholics into believing their millions of dollars in donations to the collection would be used to help “victims of war, oppression, natural disaster, or disease.”
According to the 23-page complaint, Peter’s Pence is a “special collection taken from Catholics every June” and is described by the USCCB as a fund that “supports the Pope’s philanthropy by giving the Holy Father the means to provide emergency assistance to those in need because of natural disaster, war, oppression, and disease.”
Instead of supporting the above charitable causes, reports from Italy’s L’Espresso confirmed that “roughly $560 million” had been “diverted into ‘reckless speculative operations’” at the Swiss investment company Credit Suisse, for example. In all, the “investments” accounted for around “77 per cent of the collections,” the report said.
Much of the money collected under the guise of charity was funnelled into morally questionable ventures, such as Hollywood’s sexually explicit Elton John biopic “Rocketman,” “luxury condominium developments” that ended up losing the Vatican millions of dollars, and “hefty, multi-million dollar commissions” to fund managers.
The suit alleges that “as little as 10% has found its way to the needy for whom it was given,” although some commentators have suggested that figure comes closer to a mere five percent.
An accompanying press release argued that the USCCB is “liable under theories of common law fraud, unjust enrichment, and breach of fiduciary duty” for “misleadingly soliciting millions of dollars in charitable donations that were diverted into private investments.” ...
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I wonder if any of it went towards election fraud or the lawfare effort against Trump?
Not a dime from me for Peters Pence or any fundraising requests by the bishop.
Both articles fascinating, thanks. No matter what the courts decide, there’s no question that morally the bishops and the vatican were deceitful, and now unapologetic, in these matters. An indication they will continue deception and high-handedness in handling donations from the faithful.
My bet is that it was Biden who cancelled because he wasn’t healthy enough for a morning meeting.
Pope Francis has never concealed his hostility to Trump. I was half-expecting him last year to tell American Catholics not to vote for Trump, but maybe he was advised that that would be counter-productive.
Frankie’s tactic is to test the waters first and see if there is a place for him to slip in his opinion without controversy approaching him. That is a mark of a devious coward.
You're right, he'd be in apostasy but Xiden already is anyway. What's interesting, though, is that you have accidentally hit on the reason the Mass was cancelled -- to prevent counter-demonstrations from Vatican prelates.
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