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Papal visits
Croatia Croatia (June 4 to June 5, 2011)
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Pope Benedict XVI visited Croatia 4–5 June 2011. He traveled to Zagreb and prayed at the tomb of Blessed Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac.[43] The Pope expressed support for Croatia's bid to join the European Union.[44]
June 19, 2011: Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro[70]
San Marino San Marino (June 19, 2011) The Pope made an apostolic visit to the Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro in San Marino in June 2011.[45][46]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pastoral_visits_of_Pope_Benedict_XVI#2011_2
oh shit
Summary:
Friday,
June 3rd, His Holiness Benedict XVI received Vice President Joe Biden at the Vatican.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/06/10/photo-pope-receives-vice-president-biden-vatican
moar:
>Vice President Biden is in Rome to mark the 150th anniversary of the country’s unification. Although he is a Catholic, Biden has had a troubled relationship with the Church because of his stance on certain issues, such as abortion.
>Biden was subsequently barred from speaking at events in Catholic schools in the diocese.
>In 2009 then
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
>also visited the Pope at the Vatican. Afterwards she claimed, “I had the opportunity to praise the Church's leadership in fighting poverty, hunger, and global warming, as well as the Holy Father's dedication to religious freedom and his upcoming trip and message to Israel.”
>This version of events, though, was somewhat contradicted by a Vatican statement issued only hours later:
>“His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the Church's consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society, to work in co-operation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development.”
>Vice President Biden also had meeting in Rome today with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on the issue of the Middle East.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vice-president-biden-meets-in-private-with-pope-benedict
Q was right, the swamp is pretty fucking deep.
lookie what happened right before he went to see the Pope:
BENGHAZI!!
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. (White House photo)
The New York Times is reporting that as U.S. military forces began their mission to kill or capture Osama bin Laden May 1, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. “fingered his rosary beads” in the Situation Room of the White House.
It’s not the first time we have heard about Biden’s rosary. An Irish Catholic from Scranton, the vice president carries his rosary with him. It is said that when he underwent brain surgery, he asked doctors if he could keep a rosary under his pillow. And, when he was exploring a run for the presidency in 2008, Biden famously said he would “shove his rosary beads down the throat” of any Republican who said he wasn’t religious.
https://reviewmatysek.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/bidens-rosary/