all his cardinals when they go out beer drinking.
Posted on 10/02/2015 11:58:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pope Francis' meeting last week with an American woman at the center of a row over gay marriage was not something he had sought and should not be seen as an endorsement of her views, the Vatican said on Friday.
One Vatican official said there was "a sense of regret" that the pope had ever seen Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who went to jail in September for refusing to honor a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and issue same-sex marriage licenses.
The encounter in Washington was originally kept secret and has sparked widespread debate since it became public this week, proving something of a misstep for the pontiff.
Looking to smother the fierce controversy, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said Davis was one of "several dozen" people who had been invited by the Vatican ambassador to see Francis during his visit to the U.S. capital.
"The Pope did not enter into the details of the situation of Mrs. Davis and his meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects," Lombardi said in a statement.
"The only real audience granted by the Pope at the Nunciature (Vatican embassy) was with one of his former students and his family," the statement said.
The meeting with Davis disappointed many liberal Catholics but delighted conservatives, who saw it as a sign that the pope was clearly condemning a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage.
Davis said on Wednesday that the pope had thanked her for her courage and told her to "stay strong", adding that knowing that he agreed with what she was doing "kind of validates everything".
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Again: that gets to be the headline!
There's always a sense of thousands of little curia-critters scurrying under the floorboards. #8
Verrrrrrry brave.
I just love it when it all comes together.
What rot. Who's going to get us the name of this "Vatican official"?
It is the LIBERAL HANDLERS at the Vatican who have the regret.
The Pope is quite clear on why he reached out.
“Do not hide your light under a bushel basket.”
Because that ain't happening.... ever.
all his cardinals when they go out beer drinking.
So it seems Obama now controls the Vatican. Son of perdition father of lies
Pope Francis: “I want to do some reflection upon my acts, bring me...”
Aide: “The New Testament?”
Pope Francis: “No, the New York Times.”
I’m thinking Reuters created this “sense of regret” story out of thin air.
Maybe it’s time to become a Christ-loving Protestant.
Or has Satan truly infiltrated the Vatican? It seems that way. Bizarro world.
I’m done. This is a wolf, not a lamb.
I had one great-grandmother who was a Lutheran.
She married into a big Catholic family. Our Church likely would have treated her better had she been a leper. Still a source of shame and anger in our family a half-century after she passed on.
Dirty little secret....most Catholics now agree that the Church NEEDED to be taken down a peg when Luther did it. You can now walk into a Catholic Church at Christmastime and hear “Away in a Manger”....a tacit admission that he may have had a point.
Says “a Vatican official” according to this article. We all know how dependable this can be. About as dependable as Katie Couric’s “some say …”
The encounter in Washington was originally kept secret…
Because this was not a one-on-one meeting with the soul purpose talking directly to her. She was part of a large group from all over the country that he met with. Their encounter was brief. No need to tout that to the news media.
Sorry current catholics. If you stay in that church, you are as much the enemy as Obama. You are empowering this Pope’s crap.
Kim Davis is down in Kentucky, having her husband brush her long brown hair while they both laugh it up, seeing the liberal all confused about what happened. Kim did meet with the Pope, it’s now been proven. So deal with it. Shock! He is not yet fully in the lib. pocket after all.
I have thought of that, but many mainline Protestant churches are even more liberal than the Catholic Church. Which one do you recommend?
Yes, I am disgusted with the Leftist leadership of my Church. Does that mean I should leave my Church?
I am equally disgusted with the Leftist leadership of my country. Does that mean I should leave my country?
Gert and Regert sat on a log...
As a Lutheran, I confess a sense of tiredness with the roller coaster of the present papacy. You either stand for God’s will as defined by 2000 years of adherence to the Word of God (meaning both Christ and Scripture) or you don’t.
Perhaps it is because I am too overwhelmed by the Martyrs of Umpqua; the Vatican may be the center of Catholicism, but God’s heart is in Oregon today.
And prelates in the Vatican a-bed
Must think themselves accurs’d they were not there,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
Of those so martyred on Saint Melor’s day.
(Yesterday was the feast day of St. Melorius, who according to legend was martyred as a teenager.)
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