Francis, who adopted name of the Catholic patron saint of ecology when he became pope, is likely to make action on climate change a prominent theme of his tour, particularly in his addresses to Congress and the United Nations, said Tom Reese, a Jesuit priest and a senior analyst for the National Catholic Reporter. The diplomatic double whammy of back-to-back visits by Pope Francis and Chinese President Xi Jinping is creating some pressure-filled days for Dyer, five months into her tenure as White House social secretary.
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Bishop Gene Robinson, who has also been invited to the pope’s welcoming ceremony, is a former Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire and the first openly gay Episcopal bishop in the U.S. He is also an ex-spouse in a same-sex marriage. In Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment (written with the consultation of that great seminary the EPA and its embattled head Gina McCarthy), he condemned anyone skeptical of the link between human activity and climate change and adopted the false science being propagated by the Left. She will also be proudly attending your World Meeting of Families with the Equally Blessed contingent from your flock.
The first meeting between a pope and a president did not come until 1919, until after World War I – when Woodrow Wilson held an audience with Pope Benedict XV.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will greet Pope Francis when he lands at a US military base just outside the city on Tuesday. But all the Vatican can do is protest – unless they cancel Francis’ visit, which isn’t going to happen.
Del. Anne Healey (D-Prince George’s), a lifelong Catholic, said she scored a ticket to see the pope at the White House Wednesday morning. “He was always willing to do more and be more for his community, and his quiet conviction has always stuck with me”, Mr. Cutillo said in an email.
Jake, who has autism, works with law enforcement to help them understand people who are different. He said the Vatican’s disapproval of his presence at the ceremony “speaks to the necessity for continued dialogue” between transgender Catholics and the church hierarchy. Views are those of authors and not necessarily those of Canada Free Press. “They know things not even the Central Intelligence Agency knows”, said Massimo Faggioli, a church expert who teaches at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
“(T)he White House wants to deliberately embarrass the Pope by sticking a thumb in his eye, and by sticking their noses into Catholic doctrine and teachings”, Ed Morrissey wrote at HotAir.com.
What followed, though, was an elongated legal battle over the ever-controversial contraceptive mandate – one that continues to rage three years later. Since 1972, when news media exit polls were first inaugurated, no presidential candidate has won the popular vote for president without the Catholic vote.
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“We’ve got to determine what is the Catholic vote, because surveys now conflate practicing Catholics and non-practicing Catholics”, Hinshaw said. “Many bishops have long sought government health care, then the church raised objections when that led to the HHS mandate”.
