Posted on 10/22/2015 7:41:42 PM PDT by ebb tide
I don’t get it... Why have a private meeting with her, lie about even having it (and throwing her under the bus as a result), or spread a lie that she was just one in a sea of faces?
Can you explain the reasoning going on here?
Oh the horse.....the horse.....
If I was the Pope or even Kimmy, I tell everyone to screw off. None of ya bizness. (yes I know how to spell but put it out there purposefully). This whole thing is a big who the heck cares.
I have a secret to tell...........I had an audience with the Pope too.....Yieks....it was about 7 years ago.......and blasphemy I also sat 5th row at Christmas Even Mass at the Vatican..........In the news tomorrow I am sure.
My guess is that someone in the Curia was embarrassed about the meeting and tried desperately to spin it to make Davis look bad.
The whole thing stinks. I am no fan of Francis, but I wonder if he isn’t being sabotaged by Vaticanistas the way Benedict was.
He needs our prayers. That rat’s nest needs to be cleaned out.
How troubling, this Pope is so bold to meet with the killer Castros but he and his people want to hide a meeting with a Christian jailed for being a Christian.
Answer:
The Pope has surrounded himself with so many sodomites and heretics that even when he does something good, they run to the press and disavow it.
He is not a liar; he is a Jesuit and Jesuits are jesuitical.
Not necessarily someone in the Curia. Perhaps someone in the diocese of Washington.who was unable to block the meeting.
Sure sounds like there is a dirty rat running around... it stuns me how he could possibly think he can get away with lying like that about something so public without being outed.
It’s almost like the pope, and maybe other members of the Vatican, are acting like they might be under the influence of an evil spell part of the time. Someone is a puppetmeister here.
The Francis/Kim Davis situation is quite disappointing. At the precise moment when the HHS mandate/gay marriage persecution is picking up steam, the poster woman for peaceful but firm resistance seems to have been thrown under the bus. I don’t know how much of this is Francis and how much is Lombardi. But it’s definitely a knee jerk reaction to the howling of liberals over the meeting.
It’s true that the Pope probably doesn’t know all the details of Kim Davis situation but there is deceit in how the Vatican statement makes it look like she almost wandered in off the street for a meeting with the pope, when she was sought out, brought to, and given a private meeting with the Pope who knew her situation fairly specifically.
Francis ought to publicly embrace Kim Davis in view of the cameras.
A Jesuit? I read 30% of them are homosexual.
I don’t follow the Popes much, but how was Pope Benedict sabotaged by the Vaticanistas?
God bless Pope Francis. The Free Republic.
The whole disappearing act of Benedict is so odd. Has anyone even seen him anywhere? Has he gone into forced hiding?
i>"she was instructed to wear her hair up because she is so recognizable." >
Were they afraid of terrorists or the media? In any case, receiving a pair of unScriptural Rosary beads was wrong on her part, and also wrong a substitute for actual clear support.
I've hesitated to point this out on this forum, but Kim Davis is a Oneness Pentecostal. I heard a rumor of this, then I tracked down her church's website and confirmed. They deny the Trinity and teach all sorts of goofy things. This means that Kim Davis isn't even a Christian to begin with, but qualifies as a cult member and heretic.
And that is why Evangelicals should NOT meet with the pope.
When the pope says he wants to dialog what he means is he wants to compromise . Compromised truth isn’t truth.
Benedict’s election came as a shock to a lot of people. The libs were crushed (they tried to elect Bergoglio back then), but even us traditionalists who had been watching and admiring Ratzinger for years prior were flabbergasted when his name was read on that balcony. A priest friend of ours even told us once he couldn’t get elected!
The Pope depends on all the dicasteries of the Curia under him to get things done. They won’t necessarily oppose him outright, but if they smile to his face and then undermine him behind his back it becomes a real mess.
Benedict was a first-rate scholar and a theologian. But his academic disposition was, unfortunately, not much help in a den of vipers.
That said, to his eternal credit, he got two things done which were absolute triumphs and will have immense impact in the Church to come. He freed the Latin Mass, and he set up the Ordinariate for Anglicans.
He makes the rare appearance. I just read that he offered his testimony for the cause for sainthood of JPI. His hiding is not at all forced but entirely self-imposed--he is actually a shy bookish type and that is what he wanted.
Basically, he is living almost like a cloistered monk now. He's retired to a life of prayer and is serving the Church that way. And this is just intuition but I'd bet Francis frequently secretly seeks Benedict's counsel.
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