That’s sounds pretty sick Ebb Tide.
Vatican Pushes Back on Guest List for White House Welcome to Pope
The news about the White House invitees first surfaced last week, and it has reached Rome. Yesterday an unidentified “Vatican official” signaled the Holy See’s displeasure with the tactic.
“The Vatican has taken offense at the Obama administration’s decision to invite to the pope’s welcome ceremony transgender activists, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and an activist nun who leads a group criticized by the Vatican for its silence on abortion and euthanasia,” noted a Sept. 17 story in The Wall Street Journal.
“According to a senior Vatican official, the Holy See worries that any photos of the pope with these guests at the White House welcoming ceremony next Wednesday could be interpreted as an endorsement of their activities.”
An estimated 15,000 people will be in attendance at the White House to welcome Pope Francis. No doubt, many other attendees will be there simply to affirm their respect for the Pope, the Catholic Church, and the deposit of truth the Vicar of Christ defends.
But whoever is involved with the White House event saw fit to alert the media to the presence of LGBT and dissident leaders. And the Vatican had every reason to fear Francis would become entangled in a string of photo ops that could leave the public confused.
This "offense" reeks of insincerity at best.