Report: Pope Refuses To Meet With Condi

AFP:

Pope Benedict XVI refused to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in August, saying he was on holiday, an Italian newspaper reported Wednesday.

Rice "made it known to the Vatican that she absolutely had to meet the pope" to boost her diplomatic "credit" ahead of a trip to the Middle East, the Corriere della Sera daily reported without citing its sources.

She was hoping to meet the pontiff at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo at the beginning of August, it said.

"'The pope is on holiday' was the official response," the paper said.

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Comments

[rovezaleeker]

01:00 PM on 09/21/2007

Hey Condi! Piss off! I'm on vacation.

That should ring a bell. Isn't that the message the people of New Orleans got from you and Darth when their city blew away?

[Dakotadem]

11:10 AM on 09/21/2007

Poor Condi - no pope cred.

[xpresv]

10:14 AM on 09/21/2007

Let me get this straight. As reprehensible as the behavior of the Bush Administration has been, let us not ignore the fact that the Pope just met with OMAR EL-BASHIR OF SUDAN, who has been declared the world's worst dictator. He has been responsible for a TRUE GENOCIDE against Black Africans for the past twenty years!

Maybe the Pope agrees with Bashir and has a distaste for people with dark skin.

[MissingAmerica]

10:52 PM on 09/20/2007

Seems everyone associated with the Bush administration is as welcome roaches at a pajama party! Ya gotta love it!

[Zhonni]

09:24 PM on 09/20/2007

I hope he has not met Bush during his holiday period. If he has, it would be like meeting the devil yet avoiding a demon(the lesser of two evil as it were).

[nunzia]

08:26 PM on 09/20/2007

I seriously doubt that scruples on the part of that pope had anything to do with his not meeting her. Probably just had something "funner" to do at the time.

[chinohillster]

06:42 PM on 09/20/2007

Well, maybe, just maybe, Benedict XVI didn't want Dr. Rice to cop his Prada shoes!

[oafishcad]

07:09 PM on 09/20/2007

Yes they do have a lot in common. Silly little shoes and nice dresses.

[OckhamsElectricRazor]

05:17 PM on 09/20/2007

So much for the diplomatic surge....:/

[mrcontinental]

03:44 PM on 09/20/2007

'The pope is on holiday'

If you can't believe the pope who are you gonna believe?

[Mike169]

02:27 PM on 09/20/2007

Not til she cleans the blood off her hands.

[rras]

02:15 PM on 09/20/2007

That phony bitch. Wasn't it bad enough that Bush and his wife made us Americans look so dumb when they made Beverly Hillbilly type visit.
What the hell was the Pope going to say to her, " great job you're doing sister". Christ he'd be lying in both cases.
Someone tell Miss Rice, that Dobson is looking for constituents. She's not black enough to be a Baptist and you know how those Evangelistic Screamers will welcome her with open arms and some other unmentionable parts.

[outnow]

12:55 PM on 09/20/2007

Stanford students don't want her! The Pope doesn't want her! Maybe she can get a job being Aunt Jemima for pancake syrup and Colin can be a body double for Uncle Tom. Bush is done with her.

[kmccaskill]

12:27 PM on 09/20/2007

why, race factor

Hypocrite Hillary(DC Experience Matters?JFK & Bill HAD LIL

This Video Is Showing That Hillary is a hypocrite for saying obama has no experience

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBy3AKn_2Fk

[TWOSHORT]

12:03 PM on 09/20/2007

She needs to be in JENO instead of trying to meet the pope.Her job is to spread freedom around the world for those under opression.

[realistic2008]

11:48 AM on 09/20/2007

The pope is right and has all the rights in the world to avoid Condi since she has shown little or not remorse or not done any acts of constriction for working with the devil and committing crimes against humanity.