Pope Francis to address joint session of Congress

[rug]

In Washington, a Sept. 22 event at the White House; Mass at Washington’s basilica primarily for bishops, women and men religious, and seminarians, and an address to a joint session of Congress — a papal first

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http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/01/18/report-pope-francis-will-accept-an-invitation-to-address-the-us-congress/

This will give FFRF plenty of time to write letters.

[Kelvin Mace]

1. So, will the GOP heckle him and scream "You lie"

like they did Obama?

[Cartoonist]

2. When will Dawkins get a turn.

Oh that's right, he's a nobody compared to Pope Frank.

[rug]

3. Pretty much.

[bvf]

4. Pocketing this

for the next inevitable argument about the supposedly monolithic nature of atheism.

Thank you.

[rug]

5. You're welcome.

I've never met a collector of non sequiturs before.

[bvf]

7. That you know of.

Thanks again.

[cbayer]

15. Lol…… never.

[hrmjustin]

18. Dawkins is not a head of state.

[cbayer]

19. But it's telling that he is seen as equivalent in this case.

[hrmjustin]

20. Lol yes it is.

[okasha]

21. Frequent denials to the contrary.

Somebody dropped the party line....

[edhopper]

6. But, but, but

The Catholic Church has nothing to do with politics.

[rug]

8. You can do better than that, ed.

Did someone in Congress invite him there or is he going to storm the Capitol with a phalanx of Swiss Guards?

[bvf]

9. Talk about non sequiturs.

[rug]

10. Let me know if you need a diagram.

[bvf]

12. Not sure that that would be of much use, but

since you offer, sure, why not?

You were in earnest, I take it?

"Did someone in Congress invite him there or is he going to storm the Capitol with a phalanx of Swiss Guards?"

Diagram away, by all means.

[okasha]

13. And you can bet it wasn't a Republican....

[cbayer]

16. Who in the world ever said that? Oh, that's right…nobody.

[gopiscrap]

11. That should be interesting

[newfie11]

14. They won't listen to him

All the jingling of money in their ears from payoffs will make it impossible to hear the truth.
This is just a photo ops for oligarch stooges.

[cbayer]

17. Good. Should be interesting to see what he says.

[MellowDem]

22. There's already enough bigoted misogynists in Congress...

Now we get Francis to reinforce their worldview. Yea.

[bvf]

23. I predict thunderous applause

from both sides of the aisle.

Because nothing says "reason" like a guy in a dress who says things like this:

"The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life,” Francis said at a Mass in Manila. “These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God’s plan for creation."