{"id":198997,"date":"2007-09-19T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/19\/rice-denied-audience-with-pope\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T04:11:00","slug":"rice-denied-audience-with-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/19\/rice-denied-audience-with-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice Denied Audience with Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August, the Pope <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corriere.it\/english\/rice.shtml\">denied US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice an audience<\/a>, citing that &#8220;Benedict XVI is on holiday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly not the case.  Rather, this is a fallout of disagreements over the war in Iraq, and her previous dealings with representatives of the Pontiff:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>No one will say so officially but the refusal may also have been prompted by Ms Rice\u2019s stance in 2003, when she was Mr Bush\u2019s national security adviser. On the eve of the Iraqi conflict, it was Ms Rice who said bluntly that she did not understand the Vatican\u2019s anti-war stance. She treated John Paul II\u2019s envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, with a coolness that bordered on disrespect when he was sent to Washington on 2 March 2003 on a desperate mission to avert military intervention. Clearly, the incident has not been forgotten.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It should come as no surprise to any person with half a brain, which apparently does <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> include Ms. Rice, that when you treat people with disrespect, they are disinclined to help you in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, the Pope denied US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice an audience, citing that &#8220;Benedict XVI is on holiday&#8221;. This is clearly not the case. Rather, this is a fallout of disagreements over the war in Iraq, and her previous dealings with representatives of the Pontiff: No one will say so officially but the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1063,1021,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-religion","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198997"}],"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=198997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}