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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsREPORT: Pope Francis Shitcans Vatican Ambassador Who Embarrassed Him With Kim Davis Debacle
REPORT: Pope Francis Shitcans Vatican Ambassador Who Embarrassed Him With Kim Davis Debacle
March 11, 2016 100K Peruvians In A Soccer Stadium
Back in October the New York Times reported that Vatican observers were predicting that Pope Francis would take the first respectable opportunity to shitcan the guy who embarrassed him with Kim Davis. That opportunity has arrived. Via the Washington Post:
The Vatican will appoint Archbishop Christophe Pierre to be the new ambassador to the United States, replacing an ambassador whose tenure has sparked controversy, reports say. The current Vatican ambassador to the U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, has reached the statutory retirement age. Viganò was in the spotlight in September, when he hosted an unexpected meeting at his D.C. residence between Pope Francis and Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, inflaming a nationwide debate over her decision. In the whirl of questions over why Francis had met Davis on his trip to the United States and who had planned the encounter, the Vatican said that Davis was invited by the Nuncio and referred questions about why Davis was on the guest list to Viganòs office.
More than six months later and were STILL waiting for the Liberty Counsel to produce those promised photos of Davis having that private audience with the pope. (Tipped by JMG reader Eric)
http://www.joemygod.com/2016/03/11/report-pope-francis-shitcans-vatican-ambassador-who-embarrassed-him-with-kim-davis-debacle/
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REPORT: Pope Francis Shitcans Vatican Ambassador Who Embarrassed Him With Kim Davis Debacle (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2016
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blm
(113,063 posts)1. This atheist loves this Pope.
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awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)4. As long you aren't a woman needing
birth control or an abortion, or happen to be gay, then I guess this pope is ok.
blm
(113,063 posts)5. I love most of what he believes. If I can love my RW sisters who I only agree with 10%
of the time, I can love this pope who I agree with 80% of the time.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Frankie is way cool in my book.
Spring cleaning at the Vatican.
merrily
(45,251 posts)3. Statutory retirement age.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)6. Anyone that can upset Republicans is an ally.
Not necessarily a "friend" but not an enemy either.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)7. K & R