Posted on 10/02/2015 8:32:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
(CBS) — Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich is on his way to Rome tonight. Before he left, he spoke out for the first time on that controversial meeting between Pope Francis and Kim Davis, the county clerk from Kentucky who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
Cupich in essence told CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine not to read too much into it.
A highly placed source inside the Vatican claims the Pope was blindsided.
The Vatican has since tried to distance Pope Francis from Davis. Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said the pope’s meeting with Davis was not an endorsement of her decision to refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
“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,” he said.
Lombardi said the Vatican wanted to “clarify” what happened “in order to contribute to an objective understanding of what transpired.”
“Pope Francis met with several dozen persons who had been invited by the Nunciature to greet him as he prepared to leave Washington for New York City. Such brief greetings occur on all papal visits and are due to the Pope’s characteristic kindness and availability. The only real audience granted by the Pope at the Nunciature was with one of his former students and his family,” he said.
CBS News has confirmed that former student was Yayo Grassi, an openly gay Argentine, who visited Pope Francis with his longtime partner and some friends.
“Mr. Yayo Grassi, a former Argentine student of Pope Francis, who had already met other times in the past with the Pope, asked to present his mother and several friends to the Pope during the Pope’s stay......
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Kinda seems like the pope is ashamed to be Catholic.
Really.
Damn the Pope hates it when they Video taped him
Why would the pope want to meet with her? She is not Catholic. I would not meet with her myself unless she was a Catholic.
Doesn’t pass the smell test.
Nobody sees the Pope without an invitation.
Even if you’re a little illegal girl wanting to slip the Pope a message about your parents, that has to be set up months in advance.
How exactly was the Pope’s security blindsighted to allow someone uninvited an audience to the Pope?
That’s like me saying that I think I’ll decide to crash in the Lincoln Bedroom this weekend.
Nor the popes reported tree comments
Exactly what I was thinking. I think the Vatican staff are spinning this on their own motivation.
She was invited.....but not by the Pope.
The meeting appears to have been set up by the Papal Nuncio, who is the Pope's representative in America and it took place at his residence, the Nunciature.
Maybe she’s a Communist... (Running and ducking... ;- )
It seems the pope and his entourage are at odds or have inefficient lines of communications or are a bunch of
blooming liars or all three.
This profile in courage is stunning. John Paul II weeps.
Thank you.
It is all about enjoying his celebrityhood. Not going to risk offending the Castro thug brothers to speak up for the brutalized dissidents. Not going to speak up for the imprisoned opponent of gay marriage.
I read that one parent on each side, both hers and her husband’s were Catholic. Chances are that she may have been baptized Catholic.
What the heck is all this about? Obviously, she didn’t sneak in uninvited. This drama over Kim Davis is starting to irk me.
Did the Nuncio also take it upon himself to invite the Pope’s gay friend?
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