Pope did not give unconditional support to clerk in gay marriage row: Vatican, Pope Francis did not ask to accommodated a Kentucky canton agent who had been confined for abnegation to affair alliance licenses to gay couples and did not action her actual support, the Vatican said on Friday.
Looking to absolute altercation afterwards endure week's affair in Washington amid the pope and Kim Davis, Vatican agent Federico Lombardi said she was one of "several dozen" humans who had been arrive by the Vatican agent to see Francis.
"The Pope did not access into the data of the bearings of Mrs. Davis and his affair with her should not be advised a anatomy of abutment of her position in all of its accurate and circuitous aspects," Lombardi said in a statement.
The affair with Davis, which was originally kept secret, aghast abounding advanced Catholics but captivated conservatives, who saw it as a assurance that the pope was acutely accusatory a cardinal by the U.S. Supreme Court to approve same-sex marriage.
A chief Vatican official, who beneath to be named, said there was a "sense of regret" aural the Holy See over the encounter, which sparked boundless agitation in the United States, overshadowing about all added aspects of the pope's visit.
He added that Davis had been in a band of humans the pope had met at the Vatican admiral in Washington afore he larboard for New York.
"The alone absolute admirers accepted by the Pope at the Nunciature (Vatican embassy) was with one of his above acceptance and his family," the account said.
Davis was confined for 5 canicule in September for abnegation to accede with a judge's adjustment to affair alliance licenses in band with the Supreme Court ruling.
Davis has said her behavior as an Apostolic Christian anticipate her from arising alliance licenses to same-sex couples. Her abbey belongs to a Protestant movement accepted as Apostolic Pentecostalism.
Looking to absolute altercation afterwards endure week's affair in Washington amid the pope and Kim Davis, Vatican agent Federico Lombardi said she was one of "several dozen" humans who had been arrive by the Vatican agent to see Francis.
"The Pope did not access into the data of the bearings of Mrs. Davis and his affair with her should not be advised a anatomy of abutment of her position in all of its accurate and circuitous aspects," Lombardi said in a statement.
The affair with Davis, which was originally kept secret, aghast abounding advanced Catholics but captivated conservatives, who saw it as a assurance that the pope was acutely accusatory a cardinal by the U.S. Supreme Court to approve same-sex marriage.
A chief Vatican official, who beneath to be named, said there was a "sense of regret" aural the Holy See over the encounter, which sparked boundless agitation in the United States, overshadowing about all added aspects of the pope's visit.
He added that Davis had been in a band of humans the pope had met at the Vatican admiral in Washington afore he larboard for New York.
"The alone absolute admirers accepted by the Pope at the Nunciature (Vatican embassy) was with one of his above acceptance and his family," the account said.
Davis was confined for 5 canicule in September for abnegation to accede with a judge's adjustment to affair alliance licenses in band with the Supreme Court ruling.
Davis has said her behavior as an Apostolic Christian anticipate her from arising alliance licenses to same-sex couples. Her abbey belongs to a Protestant movement accepted as Apostolic Pentecostalism.
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