I guess I'm just one of a few on this board who is very uncomfortable with this or any other papal figure addressing a meeting of our U.S. Congress for religious/political purposes.
Is the Dalai Lama next to deliver a speech, or the Archbishop of Canterbury, or Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam.....or the Rev. Franklin Graham, or the venerable Patriarch of Constantinople, or....
If one or all of these religious leaders are not welcome to address the congress, why not...if precedent is set with this or any other pope?
Leni
"Is the Dalai Lama next to deliver a speech, or the Archbishop of Canterbury, or Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam.....or the Rev. Franklin Graham, or the venerable Patriarch of Constantinople, or...."
The Dalai Lama attended this year's National Prayer Breakfast. He was also awarded the Congressional Gold medal by George W. Bush.