Pope Francis did not ask to meet a Kentucky county clerk who had been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples and did not offer her unconditional support, the Vatican said on Friday.
Looking to limit controversy after last week’s meeting in Washington between the pope and Kim Davis, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said she was one of “several dozen” people who had been invited by the Vatican ambassador to see Francis.
“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,” Lombardi said in a statement.
The meeting with Davis, which was originally kept secret, disappointed many liberal Catholics but delighted conservatives, who saw it as a sign that the pope was clearly condemning a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage.
A senior Vatican official, who declined to be named, said there was a “sense of regret” within the Holy See over the encounter, which sparked widespread debate in the United States, overshadowing almost all other aspects of the pope’s visit.
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Is too much too ask religious leaders to stand up for the Word of God?
David DeGerolamo
This manmade religion with its faux sabbath, worshipping falsely contrived manmade feasts, and created unholy pagan diety based holidays and idolatry, worships statues, wreaths, trees, obelisks, and traditions, none of which adhere to the LAW of THE GOD of Abram, Isaac, and Yacob.
What GOD then IS their creator?
No, this unholy vatican rules over a totally manmade religion and its unholy doctrine. He rules a kings empire and bank, that has manmade laws their council contrived up on their own.
MOST so called “Christian” religions are MANMADE religions with manmade traditions and enforcing and preaching manmade religious laws.
It is commanded of us to HEAR and OBEY GODS LAW! The EL ohim, YHVH, YEHOVAH’s LAW and instructions.
Not the Laws of Mans creations.
SHEMA! Hear O’Israel and Obey!
May you be Blessed during this WEEK long Feast of Tabernacles.
Sukkot.
Shalom.
In earlier times this Pope may have blessed the lions.