Francis and Joe meeting today... cameras not allowed!

Earlier this month, Jorge Bergoglio, the man who calls himself Pope Francis, dismayed faithful Catholics by welcoming to the Vatican Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives and a strident pro-abort who has the gall to call herself Catholic. But what the hey, Francis calls himself Catholic too. Walt imagines their conversation went something like this. 

Ms Pelosi's tête-à-tête with the Unholy Father received full celebrity coverage from the lamestream media, including video and still photos. If you look in the background of this picture you can see the man with the camera, recording everything for posterior. And here's the fond farewell scene.

It was only later that Francis found out he couldn't make Ms Pelosi a cardinal, because of the gender assigned to her at birth by some white male doctor. So he did the next best thing. This week he appointed economist (((Jeffrey Sachs))) to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, an organization founded in 1994 by Pope John Paul II "to promote the study and progress of the social sciences."

As part of Pope Bergoglio's Drawing All Faiths Together (DAFT) mission, he has invited Mr Sachs to visit the Vatican on numerous occasions in recent years. He was a featured speaker in at least six Vatican conferences in 2019-2020, lecturing on topics from education to ethics, such as the ethics of "population control" and "women's rights", such as the right to kill their babies. 

Now, having heard such arguments from the horses' mouths, Francis will get it from the other end of the horse. He is meeting, even as I write, with US President Brandon. But guess what? There was no live media coverage of this historic meeting between two of the top three leaders of the One World movement. [The other is George Soros. You should have known that. Ed.]

The live broadcast of  Sleepy Joe's visit was trimmed to cover just the arrival of the president’s motorcade in the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the revised plan reflected the "normal procedure" established during the coronavirus pandemic for all visiting heads of state or government -- a procedure that curiously was not followed during Ms Pelosi's visit.

That protocol also has meant an 18-month ban on any independent media being in the room for the beginning and end of the audience, as would normally be the case for a visiting head of state. Cancelled was the live coverage of Mr Brandon actually greeting Francis in the palace Throne Room, as well as the live footage of the two men sitting down to begin their private talks in Francis' library. The cameras stopped running at that point so we will never know if Joe was able to get up from his chair without assistance.

No explanation was provided for the sudden cancellation of scheduled media coverage. Ordinarily, filming is allowed while the Pontiff greets a foreign leader, and the two pose together in the apostolic library before their private talk. Vatican officials told reporters that some footage of the encounter will be provided to media outlets, in edited form, after the meeting. When good memes are made, Walt will make them!