It’s hard to be charitable to someone who used the Holy Father in such a way, and even the Church says he was “used.”
***“I was very disappointed to see the pope having been used that way, and that his willingness to be friendly to someone was turned against him,” Father Martin said in an interview on Friday. ***
A lot of us are trying to be charitable to Mrs. Davis, but can’t help but share Fr. Martin’s feelings because we LOVE our Holy Father so much.
I was given the honor of meeting a saint when that saint was pope, St. Pope John Paul II. He held both of my hands in his. It probably wasn’t decorous, but I touched his cheek and said “God bless you always,” then he smiled, blessed me, actually touched my cheek, and I moved on.
I could tell, without a doubt, that I was in the presence of a saintly person, but I don’t think he knew much about me, despite his genius and depth of insight. I doubt Pope Francis knew anything about Mrs. Davis other than she is a child of God like all of us are. I hope she knew she was in the presence of a saintly man, though I have my doubts. Not a word of the great honor of meeting the pope has come from her camp.