Posted on 10/28/2021 9:49:12 AM PDT by ebb tide
ROME (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday abruptly canceled the planned live broadcast of U.S. President Joe Biden meeting Pope Francis, the latest restriction to media coverage of the Holy See.
The Vatican press office provided no explanation for why the live broadcast of Biden’s visit had been trimmed to cover just the arrival of the president’s motorcade in the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace, where a Vatican monsignor will greet him.
Cancelled was any live coverage of Biden actually greeting Francis in the palace Throne Room, as well as the live footage of the two men sitting down to begin their private talks in Francis’ library, at which time the cameras normally would have stopped running.
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They’re probably just running interference for Dementia Joe. If (when) he looks especially feeble or disoriented meeting Bergoglio, they’ll do their best to edit things for public consumption.
Pope said he’s heard the Amtrack story already so no need to broadcast it?
They are quickly constructing a fake Vatican TV stage like they did for the Oval Office. It will be right across the street just like the White House mock up and have easy to read teleprompters so Biden doesn’t get confused and have to actually speak on his own.
Biden probably wandered off or called the Pope, John Paul.
The poop didn’t want to reveal Brandon’s true self. This way they can edit and make him look like a truly wonderful person.
The Vatican couldn’t find a third person to complete a “Three Stooges” act.
The meeting between the deepstate leaders was postponed so that Biden could work on pushing his communist agenda.
My family of eight lived overseas on military bases in the Pacific in the Sixties into the Seventies, and when my dad got orders back to the states, he took us on a camping trip through Europe, and one of our stops was Rome.
While we were visiting the Vatican, my nine year old brother disappeared, and we couldn't find him. Before my mom became fully panicked, my younger brother reappeared with a suit wearing Vatican official in trail.
Apparently, my little brother had written a letter to the Pope asking for an audience, and he never got a response. While we were touring, he darted between two costumed Vatican guards with pikes and disappeared up some hallway and began going into offices and asking questions.
He stumbled on the guy and explained how he had written, and oddly enough, the guy remembered the letter. When he came out with my brother, he had tickets for everyone in our family to attend an audience with the Pope.
It turned out that we were there on the day they were changing the way papal audiences were done. Before, they were very small and private, but beginning on that day, they were going to be huge affairs with thousands of people...we were just eight more, hence the need for "tickets"...
When we went in, I had never been in an indoor place that big, filled with people of all stripes, nuns in nun-clothes, priests in various priest garb, and we found our seats.
They did a Mass, and some kind of ceremonial thing, when someone on stage walked over and said something to the Pope.
He faced the audience, and spoke gravely to the crowd in Italian that made people audibly gasp and set them to whispering and talking to each other.
My mother asked a nun near us who spoke English what was going on, and she said that the Pope had been told three Soviet cosmonauts had died during their return to earth.
It was very a very memorable time.
We had landed in Saigon, New Delhi (where we walked the streets all night instead of spending money on a hotel room) and Wheelus AFB in Libya (I think) before landing in Madrid where my father rented a VW bus and we camped through Europe for a few weeks.
When we left Frankfurt and landed in New York, as a 13 year old boy, I got on my hands and knees and kissed the tarmac. I was glad to be back in the USA after five years.
My guess is that the Vatican is catching a lot of flak for embracing a pro abortion president who flouts the Church’s teaching. The Vatican has had second thoughts.
The Grope and the Pope.
Interesting story
I not only remember it from being there, my dad wrote a long article that he submitted to “All Hands” magazine (the magazine published worldwide for Navy personnel) that they published called “Odyssey of A Navy Family” which chronicled our trip around the world beginning in 1967 and ending in 1971.
I just pulled it up, and saw a detail I got wrong...we landed in Saudi Arabia, not Libya! But I remember it all very well...:)
Probably at Biden’s request.
They were worried that Archbp Vigano was gonna crash the party wearing a “Let’s go Brandon” vestment.
Lightening strike risk too high
Its too bad, Hoped to see a socialist Pontiff meeting a walking vegetable.
My guess? Depends. Ran out of Depends.
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