{"id":181787,"date":"2016-03-16T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/16\/vatican-cans-nuncio-who-set-up-the-pope\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T22:58:00","slug":"vatican-cans-nuncio-who-set-up-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/16\/vatican-cans-nuncio-who-set-up-the-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Cans Nuncio Who Set Up the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2, who set up a meeting between anti-gay (and non-Catholic) town clerk Kim Davis without informing the Pope of the context is being removed as the Vatican’s diplomatic representative to the United States<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Vatican is replacing its controversial ambassador to the U.S., who arranged the meeting between Pope Francis and antigay Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis<\/a> last fall.<\/span>

<\/span>Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2 will leave the position of apostolic nuncio, the equivalent of an ambassador, and will be replaced by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, a French-born clergyman who is currently the nuncio to Mexico, Catholic magazine America<\/i><\/a> reports, citing Sandro Magister, a blogger who covers the Vatican.<\/span>

<\/span>The Vatican is not expected to confirm the news until the Obama administration has agreed to the new nuncio\u2019s appointment, the magazine notes, but it adds that \u201creliable sources\u201d expect an official announcement before Easter, which falls on March 27 this year. Because of his experience in Mexico, Pierre may well emphasize immigration issues, The Washington Post<\/i><\/a> reports<\/span><\/p>\n

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During the pope\u2019s visit to the U.S. last year, Vigan\u00f2 arranged for him to meet with Davis, the Rowan County clerk, who shut down all marriage operations in her office to avoid serving same-sex couples after the Supreme Court\u2019s marriage equality ruling. After she was sued and disobeyed a federal judge’s order to resume marriage operations, she went to jail<\/a> for contempt of court before agreeing<\/a> that her office would serve all eligible couples.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are any number of player in and around the Vatican who have been trying to Ratf%$# pope Francis, and this is a brush back pitch.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of rocks to be turned over in the Vatican, and I really hope that the Pope is around long enough to clean house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2, who set up a meeting between anti-gay (and non-Catholic) town clerk Kim Davis without informing the Pope of the context is being removed as the Vatican’s diplomatic representative to the United States: The Vatican is replacing its controversial ambassador to the U.S., who arranged the meeting between Pope Francis and antigay …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,964,1030,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-foreign-relations","category-lgbtq","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}