AdeptSister wrote:
The Vatican just confirmed it.

 AdeptSister wrote:
The Vatican just confirmed it.

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Because a mod closed the old Kim Davis thread, but she continues to do stupid stuff

 cincydooley wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Because a mod closed the old Kim Davis thread, but she continues to do stupid stuff

Don't quite see the stupid in this scenario.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Because a mod closed the old Kim Davis thread, but she continues to do stupid stuff

Don't quite see the stupid in this scenario.

Yep.

I certainly wouldn't turn down an offer to meet the Pope.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Because a mod closed the old Kim Davis thread, but she continues to do stupid stuff

Don't quite see the stupid in this scenario.

Yep.

I certainly wouldn't turn down an offer to meet the Pope.

 Breotan wrote:
The conservatives start to like him then he drones on about climate change and immigration. Then the liberals like him and he goes and meets with Davis. Sometimes I can't tell if he's trolling us all or not.

 jasper76 wrote:
So the Pope must not like the gays as much as he's been leading onto.

 cincydooley wrote:

 jasper76 wrote:
So the Pope must not like the gays as much as he's been leading onto.

Has he ever said he liked them?

He just said it wasn't his place to judge them.

 jasper76 wrote:
So the Pope must not like the gays as much as he's been leading onto. Seems all the better to me. Lets the Gay Catholics still know that their church's official diagnosis of "inherently disordered" probably hasn't really changed, even if the Pope isn't willing to personally judge them for it.

 sebster wrote:
I read about this this morning, when the Pope's office confirmed it.

Pretty interesting. The Pope seems pretty committed to keeping everyone off balance.

 Breotan wrote:
The conservatives start to like him then he drones on about climate change and immigration. Then the liberals like him and he goes and meets with Davis. Sometimes I can't tell if he's trolling us all or not.

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
It perplexes me why the Pope would meet with her anyways, from what I've read it seems her denomination of Christianity believes that the Pope is going to Hell and the Catholic church is false

(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.

As Pope Francis was addressing a joint session of Congress, then thousands more gathered outside on the west lawn, Kim Davis, who’d become the poster child for opponents of same-sex marriage, was getting ready for a meeting with him at the Vatican embassy.

It is a meeting some charge was orchestrated by the man who lived there, the Pope’s representative here, Carlo Maria Vigano.

Not even the Papal Spokesman Federico Lombardi knew about it ahead of time. Nor did the leadership of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which would have opposed it.

Others claim the Pope knew about the meeting and had ordered Vatican diplomats, perhaps even Vigano, to set it up.

CBS 2’s Vatican source doesn’t think so.

A close advisor to Pope Francis tweeted that the Pope was, in his words, “exploited” by those who set up what the CBS 2 source says was a “meeting that never should have taken place.”

Some call it an attempt by highly placed church leaders in the U.S. to diminish the impact of the Pope’s visit.

Archbishop Cupich tried to downplay both the meeting and its significance.

“It is his way of saying that walls of communication need to come down. Meeting with someone is not an endorsement of that person’s position,” Cupich said.

The questions of what did the Pope know and when did he know continue being debated in newspaper headlines, blog posts and on twitter feeds.

Pope Francis presides over what promises to be a contentious three-week meeting of bishops in Rome, with a number of hot-button issues on the table.

Responding to a flood of interest in the surprise revelation that Pope Francis met with controversial county clerk Kim Davis, the Vatican says the event shouldn't be seen as an endorsement of all of Davis' views. Davis has refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Rowan County, Ky.

Davis was one of "several dozen" people the pope met at the end of his visit to Washington, D.C., the Vatican says.

News of the private meeting surfaced days after Francis and Davis met at the Vatican embassy, opening a new prism through which to view a papal visit that had focused on issues such as climate change and immigration.

After the meeting, Davis told ABC News, "Just knowing the pope is on track with what we're doing, and agreeing, you know, kind of validates everything."

Acknowledging that the meeting has "continued to provoke comments and discussion," Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi addressed the topic Friday, expanding on his earlier refusal to provide details.

From Rome, NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports:

"After issuing a tight-lipped statement that did not deny the Davis-Pope meeting took place, the Holy See spokesman today issued a statement saying several dozen persons had been invited to the Vatican embassy last week to greet the pope as he prepared to leave for New York.

"The pope, the statement added, 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.

"When news of the meeting broke after the Pope's return to Rome, it had the appearance of having been furtive and contrasted with Francis' open and transparent style. It also cast a shadow over the pope's overwhelmingly successful visit to the United States."

Sylvia adds that Father Thomas Rosica, English language assistant at the Holy See Press Office, says that Pope Francis may not have understood "the impact" a visit with Davis might have in the U.S.; Rosica also says the group that included Davis was selected by the nunciature, the Vatican's diplomatic office in D.C.

On Wednesday, Davis and her legal team at the Liberty Counsel said that the meeting had been brief, and that the pope had thanked Davis for her courage and told her, "Stay strong."

News of the meeting first emerged in the conservative magazine Inside the Vatican, which said it was "arguably, the most significant meeting, symbolically, of the entire trip."

Davis, who is an an Apostolic Christian, said the pope gave her and her husband two rosaries, which they would give to Davis' parents, who are Catholic.

Here's Lombardi's full statement, which was released in both English and Italian:

"The brief meeting between Mrs. Kim Davis and Pope Francis at the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, DC has continued to provoke comments and discussion. In order to contribute to an objective understanding of what transpired I am able to clarify the following points:

"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.

"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."

 -Shrike- wrote:

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Because a mod closed the old Kim Davis thread, but she continues to do stupid stuff

Don't quite see the stupid in this scenario.

Yep.

I certainly wouldn't turn down an offer to meet the Pope.

I'm struggling to think of anyone who wouldn't want to meet the Pope, given the opportunity. Even the most hardline atheists I know would still love to have a chance to talk to him. It's hardly "stupid stuff" on her part. (Apart from the bragging afterwards, but that's up for debate)

 Rainbow Dash wrote:

Eh I'd not want to be in a room with him.
There are plenty of other people I'd feel are more holy (those Sadhu's in India for example).
All I get from the Pope is he lives in extreme luxury and is head of a terrible organization (telling people in Africa not to use condoms, despite the AIDS thing makes you a terrible person).
I don't care how much climate change or whatever he says.
The Catholic Church is evil to me.

 cincydooley wrote:

 Rainbow Dash wrote:

Eh I'd not want to be in a room with him.
There are plenty of other people I'd feel are more holy (those Sadhu's in India for example).
All I get from the Pope is he lives in extreme luxury and is head of a terrible organization (telling people in Africa not to use condoms, despite the AIDS thing makes you a terrible person).
I don't care how much climate change or whatever he says.
The Catholic Church is evil to me.

Your bias is showing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/the-pope/10086876/Pope-Francis-shunned-official-papal-apartments-to-live-normal-life.html

You should really read, oh, I don't know, ANYTHING about this particular Pope before making ignorant statements.

The dude rode around in the US in a Fiat.