This is mysterious:
The Vatican on Thursday abruptly canceled the planned live broadcast of U.S. President Joe Biden meeting Pope Francis, the latest restriction to media coverage of the Holy See.
The Vatican press office provided no explanation for why the live broadcast of Biden’s visit had been trimmed to cover just the arrival of the president’s motorcade in the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace, where a Vatican monsignor will greet him.
Cancelled was any live coverage of Biden 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, at which time the cameras normally would have stopped running.
The Associated Press wonders too. They were given no explanation, and these live broadcasts give them the only access they have with the restrictions on media otherwise in the Age of COVID:
The Vatican has provided live television coverage for the visits of major heads of state for years and had scheduled such coverage Friday for Biden and before him, for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is also in Rome for a Group of 20 meeting this weekend.
Live broadcasts are particularly important because the Vatican hasn’t allowed independent photographers and journalists into papal audiences since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Vatican has continued to cite the pandemic as a reason to deny external media access to the beginnings and ends of papal audiences with visiting leaders, even though they are allowed into other papal events.
Go here to read the rest. Does the Vatican have some inside information that Biden is going to have only a short time remaining in office? Probably not, but it makes as much sense, not a whole lot, as the other speculations that have arisen since this was announced.
The devil likes to conceal his work.
Satan always paints a halo on his evil, but I suspect this time he used black paint….
I don’t think there should be pics or videos of any politicians with the Pope. All this publicity breeds narcissism and self-centeredness, especially among the political and clerical elitists.
That said, since Bergoglio is narcissistic and self-centered, I do find the cancellation of public TV broadcasts of his meeting with Biden out of character, unless he doesn’t want to be seen with an imbecile senile American gringo President.
Maybe ——- wanted it not to be afforded great attention as both of them ard their respective positions in the world are being decreased.