If you are in a tizzy re: Pope Francis, please consider:

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8. Meeting was brokered by a powerful and socially conservative Archbishop

Carlo Vigano. The Pope isn't in full control of his itinerary and he had dozens of private meetings organized by church leaders.

There are a lot of establishment Catholics that would like to see this Pope gone or discredited. And a lot of big money conservatives too. By all the anti-Catholic vitriol the meeting is driving on this forum and elsewhere on the net, I'd say it's working. I'm sure there's also a ton of Catholics saying oh no! He let me down! If he's liberal on so many things why would he meet with Kim Davis, The Leper! She's so unworthy!

We don't really know what happened at the little meet in greet, aside from her lying lawyer, and you know what, who cares. It's not really about the Davis, the Pope, or the Church. The GOP strategy has long been about driving wedges between different groups. The Pope was too popular with the lefties and getting them fired up, they didn't want their precious Catholic conservative voters to "see the socialist light" and they certainly couldn't let him leave the country on an upnote of addressing climate change, inequality, immigration. They needed a diversion. Totally worked!