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President Chinchilla meets with Pope Francis (Video Report)

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November 11th, 2013 – President Laura Chinchilla met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday.  Chinchilla and the Pope discussed a number of issues, including abortion and ongoing border disputes with Nicaragua.  Chinchilla also extended an invitation to Pope Francis to Costa Rica.

The last pope to visit Costa Rica was Pope John Paul II in 1983.

Video reports courtesy of YouTube/RomeReports.com.

 

Pope discusses abortion with President Chinchilla:

 

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  • mhogan

    I know some people need a strong religion, but are all these trips to visit the Pope really necessary? What? Is there one gigantic “confession booth” in the Vatican?

  • Ken Morris

    Well, the videos seem OK, but the text suggests that part of Chinchilla’s agenda was to enlist the Pope’s support in her constant crusade against Nicaragua. I wonder how that went.

    Actually, some papal attention to Nicaragua could be a good thing, but probably not for the objectives Chinchilla has. First Lady Rosario Murillo is institutionalizing a totalitarian brand of Christianity that the Church might want to weigh in on.

    Of course, the abortion thing is the usual hypocrisy. My understanding is that Ticas with means can and do get medical abortions fairly easily by going to private clinics, leaving the abortion ban to apply to only poor women.

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