The following comes from a September 21 Washington Times article by Jessica Chasmar:
The Vatican is reportedly offended by the Obama administration’s decision to invite LGBT activists to the pope’s welcoming ceremony in Washington D.C.
On Wednesday, Pope Francis will be greeted on the White House lawn by Mr. Obama and thousands of guests, including Mateo Williamson, a transgender Catholic, Vivian Taylor, a transgender Episcopalian, and Gene Robinson, an openly gay bishop.
According to a senior Vatican official, the Holy See worries that photos of the pope with these guests could be interpreted as an endorsement of their activities, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“The tension exemplifies concerns among conservative Catholics, including many bishops, that the White House will use the pope’s visit to play down its differences with church leaders on such contentious issues as same-sex marriage and the contraception mandate in the health care law,” The Journal reported.
Mr. Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop in the U.S., blamed “conservative reactionaries” in the papal circle for what he called the “kerfuffle” over the guest list, The Telegraph reported.
“I find it really hard to believe that Pope Francis would be too concerned about one gay guy and a feisty nun in a crowd of thousands,” he said. “For Pope Francis to be upset or angry at the guest list goes against everything we know about him.”
Also in the crowd will be Sister Simone Campbell, a nun who lobbied for Obamacare despite objections from Catholic groups that it would provide funding for abortion and contraception, The Telegraph reported.
As well the Vatican should be offended because Obama and his group want to ‘USE’ the Holy Father. I hope he does what Pope Emeritus Benedict did when Nancy Pelosi visited Rome….she was all set for an ‘photo opt’ but he never let her have it!!!! GENIUS!!!!!
The Vatican officials are not pleased with the Obama welcoming committee, but what are they going to do about it? Obama intends to use the Pope to further his leftist agenda. The Vatican could cancel the visit to the White House, or ask Obama to change the LGBT make up of the committee, or the Pope just go to the ceremony and smile at everyone. If the Pope wants to cooperate with the global warming people and the liberation theology people, he should get used to these people. If you sleep with dogs, you get fleas.
Mr Robinetc. not worth mentioning his name, of course your gonna say such things, you defy God and His natural law and you know nothing about our POPE and Christ’s church. You are just being used by the enemy to bring forth confusion and not truth. Not surprised with what that current president is plotting, he is not worth mentioning by name either, Jesus had to endure much too. They will continue to be evil story tellers. So lets pray for our Popes holy protection. Pray for our POPE!
The Vatican is offended and so are we. We are not surprised with what they plot against our Pope and church.
” According to a senior Vatican official, the Holy See worries that photos of the pope with these guests could be interpreted as an endorsement of their activities,” – TRUE, TRUE, TRUE.
Obama is evil and invited evil guests specifically for that purpose.
He doesn’t give 2 hoots about any moral message the Pope may give, only about politically motivated actions to make himself and his buddies look better in the press.
Actions speak louder than words. The Vatican should tell the the White House that Pope Francis will not attend if any any LBGT activists are there to welcome him.
Where are the invited big American Catholic Church leaders, as well as leading Catholic laymen (maybe Carl Anderson, of the Knights of Columbus, for example), to formally greet the Holy Father, at the White House? Where are the representatives of big American Catholic organizations? Especially, PRO-LIFE and PRO-CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE prganizations!! What does Pope Francis really expect, anyway, as he shoves aside true Catholic teachings and beliefs, for the popularity of the crass, Godless, secular world?? Hopefully, all of our devout, true Catholic leaders in government, will greet the Holy Father! House Speaker, Rep. John Boehner, Sen. Rick Santorum, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Jeb Bush, and many others!!
Linda, Ted Cruz is not a Catholic.
Ted Cruz is not Catholic, but he and Ben Carson are better Christians than many Catholic are. They know the Bible, and live accordingly.
* * * * * * CCC: ” 133 The Church forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful. . . to learn the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ, by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures.
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. ” * * * * *
How many Catholics reading this post have read the Bible from cover to cover in the past 5 years? And live accordingly?
Linda Maria … Given that there will be 15,000 in the crowd, I’m sure some of the people you asked about will be there.
Africa’s bishops denounce the West’s anti-family agenda as a ‘new slavery’
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/africas-bishops-denounce-the-wests-anti-family-agenda-as-a-new-slavery?
The African prelates state how they are “all wounded in the depths of our hearts as Pastors”…
– by witnessing the constant sexually ideological bombardment from Western powers against “life, the family, all that is sacred, the healthy human development of our youth who are the future of Africa, the full blossoming of women and respect for our elderly – realities of which our African cultures have such a keen sense.”
“These political and economic pressures have but one objective: the drastic control and reduction of the African population, the…
Barack Obama is a dangerous, perverse and delusional man propelled by a politically correct crowd who, in the quest to rule the Western World, have abandoned all common sense. It is common knowledge among savvy Christians that Barack and his sycophants are anti-Christianity. Christianity is the impediment which keeps good people from succumbing to the demands of the totalitarian society that Obama and the culturally elite want to impose on society. His administration is opposed to all fealty to the Creator. Obama and the secular humanists are of a confused mind because they put the creature above the Creator. Read what St. Paul says about these types of people in Romans 1:18-32; you will understand why the Left exchange the truth for lies.
You are all missing the point!
For a few Gays to be front and center is somewhat insignificant, like the color of napkins on a table. Keep in mind that the Pope is meeting with the grand Champion of Baby Killing and Homosex. If the Pope is willing to sit down at the table of the Grand Champion of Evil, the napkins are irrelevant.
Were it Catholic Priests – this would be Big News, instead of largely Censored.
Defense Department under fire for handling of child abuse claims in Afghanistan
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/22/defense-department-under-fire-for-handling-child-abuse-claims-in-afghanistan/?
– U.S. soldiers were instructed to look the other way when Afghan troops and officers were sexually abusing boys…
“My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture,”
His son and other Marines were killed in 2012 by a teenage boy — one of the alleged victims of a suspected Afghan child molester, police chief Sarwar Jan.
In that case, the U.S. military has moved to reprimand American reservist Jason…
I sincerely hope the Catholics who voted for Obama have come to see the error of their ways.
Would the Vatican invite representatives of terrorist-supporting nation states to a reception at which Obama was invited to meet the Pope? Obviously Obama has instructed his underling to invite “in your face” people to embarrass the Pope. Thankfully, say what you will about the Vatican or our present Pope, I am sure there is no such rude agenda in the Vatican.
False analogy: The President did not invite terrorists to meet with the Pope.
In fact, if he had only invited people who agree with the Pope to the White House, he would have disinvited the 98% of married catholic couples who use birth control, the 80% of Americans who claim no catholic affiliation at all, the 58% of Americans who support the Constitutional right of same sex couples to marry, and the I don’t know what percentage of Americans who do not support the idea of the Preferential Option for the Poor, and therefore, Catholic social teaching. There would be no one left on the White House lawn, including the President and First Lady, the Vice President and his wife, the Speaker of the House and his wife, and the Senate Majority…
Preferential Option for the Poor, ie Liberation Theology condemned by Pope’s John Paul 2 and Benedict XVI but a darling of the leftist mob.
The problem with liberation theology was not the preferential option for the poor.
The Church’s teaching is in CCC 2405.
Those who hold goods for use and consumption should use them with moderation, reserving the better part for guests, for the sick and the poor.
See also CCC 2443 -2449 God blesses those who come to the aid of the poor and rebukes those who turn away from them…
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s critiques of “Some Aspects of Liberation Theology” is here:
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19840806_theology-liberation_en.html
Actually, Canisius, the preferential option for the poor is part of the Compendium of Social Teachings promulgated by the Vatican https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/justpeace/documents/rc_pc_justpeace_doc_20060526_compendio-dott-soc_en.html
“182. The principle of the universal destination of goods requires that the poor, the marginalized and in all cases those whose living conditions interfere with their proper growth should be the focus of particular concern. To this end, the preferential option for the poor should be reaffirmed in all its force[384]. “This is an option, or a special form of primacy in the exercise of Christian charity, to which the whole tradition of the Church bears witness. It affects the life of…
Poor choice of people to greet the Pope of Rome! :(
Who came up with this guest list, Satan???
“According to a senior Vatican official, the Holy See worries that photos of the pope with these guests could be interpreted as an endorsement of their activities,..” (WS Journal)
After having a very chummy, supremely submissive visit with the Greatest Living Murderer (Fidel Castro, for those who aren’t aware), in which by the way Castro showed his historic combativeness and hardness, it would be hard for Pope Francis’ and “the Holy See’s” prestige to be any further damaged by association with US agenda-groups.
And it is a wonder that PF and his ilk, who are so concerned about the death penalty, were so intimidated as to not prominently bring up the perhaps hundreds of thousands that this man (Castro) has actively…
..executed since 1959, as well has hundreds of thousands more who have been imprisoned, their lives broken, all their wealth seized by the Castro brothers and their gang. But nothing but silence and shocking submissiveness by “the Holy See” when face-to-face with The Great Revolutionary.
Is. 56:10. Beware watchmen who are like silent dogs, “shepherds who have no understanding.”
He actually gave him some materials to try to aid his conversion.
Vatican officials may be concerned but maybe the Pope will love it. Francis loves being the stooge of the messy. I’m looking for Pope Francis to be given a crucifix to take back to Santa Marta with him.