The Pope Meets With The Pentacostalist

So, I've got a message saying, in effect, "Na, na, na, na, nah, the pope met with Kim Davis".  As if that's going to upset me.  I read the report that he met with her, in secret, that her lawyer leaked the story and that he gave her some rosaries and told her to keep praying.   I don't see anywhere that her marriage status was mentioned, nor her apostasy from the Catholic church, under whose rules, as they stand now, she couldn't receive communion.

I was curious to see what her new, Pentecostal, church thought of Catholicism and the Pope, suspecting it could have, not long ago, called it  "the whore of Babylon" or some such thing.   What I found was a bit more interesting.

According to what I read online, she belongs to "Oneness Pentacostalism" which, I have to admit, I didn't know from Muggletonianism.   Reading about it I wondered how much the Pope understood, since he gave her rosaries.  The "Oneness" church is anti-trinitarian and, I read, rejects the Nicean Creed.  Which would make the rosary a non-starter as it begins with the trinitarian formula of the sign of the cross and, immediately, goes into the Apostles Creed which, I doubt, the Oneness theology would countenance anymore than the Nicene Creed.  Not to mention the Hail Marys before another trinitarian prayer, Glory be to the Father, and a lot more Hail Marys.    Needless to say the differences between Roman Catholicism and the Oneness church are somewhat bigger than those questions of the "filioque" clause of the creed which the Catholic and Orthodox churches split over and have kept them apart for a real long time.   I'd really like to know what they make of Catholic Marian theology.

As to "keep praying" I'd say the same thing to her, praying for a better grasp of the responsibility to practice equal justice and the difference between her personal belief and her official duties.

I said the other day that I doubted Pope Francis understood the issues involved, I suspect, even more so, that some right-wing member of the hierarchy arranged the meeting to cause mischief during the Pope's visit, trying to spin it to the right of where it was likely to settle.

Jesus, specifically, criticized Kim Davis's marriage and divorce choices, he was silent on a single, monogamous gay marriage.   Overlooking that makes it legitimate to ask what else could be overlooked.   I knew there were things I didn't agree with Pope Francis about, but there are a lot more things, some of which, like climate change and economic justice are more important.  Even with gay marriage the law of the land, those issues still endanger LGBT folk as much as they do everyone else. He's still to the left of Barack Obama or any of the other secular leaders of the world.

Update:  Well, yes, actually, Jesus did criticize Kim Davis's marriage and divorce choices,  Luke 16:18.   I know it's kind of, you know, old fashioned but, reading, it works.