Vatican says pope met with gay couple and meeting with Kim Davis not a form of support, A anniversary afterwards Pope Francis met Kim Davis, the Kentucky canton agent confined for her abnegation to affair alliance licenses for same-sex couples, the Vatican on Friday appropriate that she exploited the affair to advance her views, denied that the pope absolutely supports her and casting agnosticism on her annual of the encounter.
The Vatican afterwards acclaimed that Francis did accept a clandestine "audience" in Washington with a above apprentice of the pope, Yayo Grassi, an aboveboard gay Argentine who forth with his longtime accomplice and some accompany met with Francis.
Vatican agent Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a account that Grassi, "who had already met added times in the accomplished with the pope, asked to present several accompany to the pope during the pope’s break in Washington, D.C."A video acquaint online shows Grassi all-embracing the pope and introducing him to his partner, as able-bodied as an Argentine woman and some Asian friends.
The statements calm seemed advised to ambit the pope from Davis.
Davis spent about a anniversary in bastille afterwards she defied a Supreme Court cardinal legalizing gay alliance in the United States. Last week, she said she had met Francis at the Nunciature, the Vatican's U.S. office, in Washington on Sept 24 during his U.S. visit, area she said he told her during a 15-minute affair to “stay strong.”Just alive that the pope is on clue with what we're accomplishing and agreeing, you know, it affectionate of validates everything,” she told ABC News.
Reports of the affair amid Davis and the pope were taken by bourgeois groups as affirmation that Francis absolutely accurate her abnegation to accredit same-sex marriages. Backers of such unions answerable that the pope had been acclimated by Davis.
Vatican abettor agent Rev. Thomas Rosica said Friday that Francis had not arrive Davis to a acquisition that included dozens of humans and appropriate that the affair may accept been manipulated by her and her lawyer.Asked if she had exploited the appointment to advance her beliefs, he replied, “One could say that.”
In an advanced statement, Lombardi added: “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.”
Rosica said Lombardi had issued the account afterwards affair with the pope Friday morning, and added that he doubted Davis had spent 15 account in a clandestine affair with Francis at the Vatican's admiral in Washington.
“I accept adversity assertive 15 account was spent with one individual, because there artlessly wasn’t time,” he said.
“It would accept been done on the aboriginal attic as the pope is advancing down the stairs to leave -- ‘Holy Father, these humans would like to bid you adieu as you go to New York’ -- That is the scenario,” he said. “It could accept been 15 account [with] this alignment of humans to say goodbye.”
In his statement, Lombardi added: “Pope Francis met with several dozen bodies who had been arrive by the Nunciature to accost him as he able to leave Washington for New York City.
“Such abrupt greetings action on all apostolic visits and are due to the pope’s appropriate affection and availability,” he said.
In response, the Florida-based Liberty Council, which is accouterment attorneys for Davis, appear a account Friday arresting the Davis camp's characterizations of the meeting.
The allurement to accommodated with Francis "was aboriginal conveyed to Kim Davis and her lawyers" on Sept. 14 and accepted by the Vatican on Sept. 23, the account said. The Vatican beatific a car for Davis and her bedmate on the afterward day to yield them to the embassy.Kim and Joe Davis waited for the clandestine affair with the pope," the account said. "There were no added humans in the room. This was a clandestine affair amid Pope Francis and Kim and Joe Davis."
Rosica alleged Davis' bearings "a actual circuitous case, it’s got all kinds of intricacies."
“Was there an befalling to abrupt the pope on this beforehand? I don’t anticipate so," he said. "A account is given, these are the humans you are traveling to accommodated .... Just to accept an abstraction of whose duke you are shaking. Was an all-embracing action done? Probably not.”
Asked who arrive Davis, if not the pope, Rosica said, “Those are questions for the Nunciature.”
The Vatican afterwards acclaimed that Francis did accept a clandestine "audience" in Washington with a above apprentice of the pope, Yayo Grassi, an aboveboard gay Argentine who forth with his longtime accomplice and some accompany met with Francis.
Vatican agent Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a account that Grassi, "who had already met added times in the accomplished with the pope, asked to present several accompany to the pope during the pope’s break in Washington, D.C."A video acquaint online shows Grassi all-embracing the pope and introducing him to his partner, as able-bodied as an Argentine woman and some Asian friends.
The statements calm seemed advised to ambit the pope from Davis.
Davis spent about a anniversary in bastille afterwards she defied a Supreme Court cardinal legalizing gay alliance in the United States. Last week, she said she had met Francis at the Nunciature, the Vatican's U.S. office, in Washington on Sept 24 during his U.S. visit, area she said he told her during a 15-minute affair to “stay strong.”Just alive that the pope is on clue with what we're accomplishing and agreeing, you know, it affectionate of validates everything,” she told ABC News.
Reports of the affair amid Davis and the pope were taken by bourgeois groups as affirmation that Francis absolutely accurate her abnegation to accredit same-sex marriages. Backers of such unions answerable that the pope had been acclimated by Davis.
Vatican abettor agent Rev. Thomas Rosica said Friday that Francis had not arrive Davis to a acquisition that included dozens of humans and appropriate that the affair may accept been manipulated by her and her lawyer.Asked if she had exploited the appointment to advance her beliefs, he replied, “One could say that.”
In an advanced statement, Lombardi added: “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.”
Rosica said Lombardi had issued the account afterwards affair with the pope Friday morning, and added that he doubted Davis had spent 15 account in a clandestine affair with Francis at the Vatican's admiral in Washington.
“I accept adversity assertive 15 account was spent with one individual, because there artlessly wasn’t time,” he said.
“It would accept been done on the aboriginal attic as the pope is advancing down the stairs to leave -- ‘Holy Father, these humans would like to bid you adieu as you go to New York’ -- That is the scenario,” he said. “It could accept been 15 account [with] this alignment of humans to say goodbye.”
In his statement, Lombardi added: “Pope Francis met with several dozen bodies who had been arrive by the Nunciature to accost him as he able to leave Washington for New York City.
“Such abrupt greetings action on all apostolic visits and are due to the pope’s appropriate affection and availability,” he said.
In response, the Florida-based Liberty Council, which is accouterment attorneys for Davis, appear a account Friday arresting the Davis camp's characterizations of the meeting.
The allurement to accommodated with Francis "was aboriginal conveyed to Kim Davis and her lawyers" on Sept. 14 and accepted by the Vatican on Sept. 23, the account said. The Vatican beatific a car for Davis and her bedmate on the afterward day to yield them to the embassy.Kim and Joe Davis waited for the clandestine affair with the pope," the account said. "There were no added humans in the room. This was a clandestine affair amid Pope Francis and Kim and Joe Davis."
Rosica alleged Davis' bearings "a actual circuitous case, it’s got all kinds of intricacies."
“Was there an befalling to abrupt the pope on this beforehand? I don’t anticipate so," he said. "A account is given, these are the humans you are traveling to accommodated .... Just to accept an abstraction of whose duke you are shaking. Was an all-embracing action done? Probably not.”
Asked who arrive Davis, if not the pope, Rosica said, “Those are questions for the Nunciature.”
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