UNITED STATES
Bilgrimage
William D. Lindsey
And the comments just keep pouring in to my email box and my Facebook feed, people crushed and angry that the pope chose to meet with Kim and Joe Davis and Mat Staver while he was on a U.S. tour preaching mercy, and, we were told, encouraging the rest of us to rise above the culture-war fixations:
This is from a friend of mine who has a truly remarkable record of working for social justice for many years now in my state, a highly regarded minister:
The fact that Pope Francis met with Kim Davis, and that he did so secretively, is beyond disappointing.
From another wonderful friend of mine, a gay person who’s not Catholic, who long since gave up on religion, but who found the pope inspiring up to now:
When I saw the news that he had dissembled, and that he actually had met with Kim Davis and made out on the plane that he was not referring to her necessarily, that was it for me. I’m done with all the protestations that he’s such a nice, kindly, old man.
From a friend of a friend on Facebook, also not Catholic but who found the pope inspiring — until this:
I watched so much of his visit – felt inspired. Now I kind of feel that watching The Cartoon Network would have done a better job of sustained inspiration.
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