Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 14, 2023 / 09:56 am (CNA).
Pope Francis and former President Bill Clinton will discuss pressing issues facing the world next week at the annual meeting of the Clinton Foundation’s global humanitarian effort, the Clinton Foundation revealed on Thursday.
The foundation said in a press release that the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2023 meeting would open on Monday, Sept. 18, with “a special conversation between President Clinton and His Holiness Pope Francis” via remote link.
The discussion is expected to focus on “what it takes to keep going on the most pressing global challenges of our time,” the release said, including “climate change, the refugee crisis, the welfare of children, and the mission and projects of the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital.”
Bambino Gesù is a Vatican-owned pediatric hospital located in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the Holy See. Pope Francis has visited the hospital several times and spoken warmly of it, calling it a “family” that offers “human witness” through its medical services.
The hospital said in its press release on Thursday that representatives of the facility would also be “tak[ing] part” in the symposium. The hospital said it requires “great financial support” to run its medical undertakings; it said it would “bring these needs to the attention of the international audience” at the initiative meeting.
Francis already met with Bill Clinton earlier this year at the Casa Santa Marta papal residence, though details of that meeting have not been released.
Two years ago Chelsea Clinton — the vice chair of the Clinton Foundation — appeared at a virtual Vatican symposium on health.
On its website, the Clinton Foundation touts its global initiative as “creating a community of doers who are taking action on the world’s most pressing challenges, together.”
Among the other guests at the symposium next week will be U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
The Clinton Foundation says the Global Initiative has helped “more than 9,000 organizations [launch] more than 3,900 Commitments to Action,” which it described as “new, specific, and measurable projects and programs.”
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(Sigh.)
This Bergoglian clown show of a papacy is wearing me down.
Our poor Lord and Savior Jesus is being sold out for a photo op.
This is so wrong, so sickening.
Bergoglio excoriates Catholics who are drawn to the Latin Mass, but happily socializes with this rapist and child killer whose party is responsible for more than one BILLION children’s murders worldwide over the past fifty years.
Note to Larry Chapp: You’re far more learned than I. So I’m prepared to concede that this Bergoglio character is not an “anti-pope.”
But tell me this. If he *were* the anti-pope, how much worse could his papacy possibly be?
The July get together had all this in it. Pope Francis wants to “reach out” to sinners via decriminalizing abortion? Or is he decriminalizing abortion hoping to convert sinners incidentally?
‘ Pope Francis met with former U.S. President Bill Clinton in a private audience at the Casa Santa Marta papal residence on Wednesday. Clinton’s delegation included several prominent Americans, including Alex Soros of the Open Society Foundations.
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After the meeting, Pope Francis greeted the delegation accompanying Clinton. The group included the president’s son-in-law Marc Mezvinsky and Clinton’s one-time Oxford roommate Strobe Talbot, who served as deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration. The current U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Joe Donnelly, was not present, Clinton’s office said.
CNA sought comment from the Open Society Foundations but did not receive a response by publication.
As CNA previously reported, Open Society Foundations and its aligned groups have funded efforts to legalize abortion in Ireland, Poland, Mexico, and other traditionally Catholic countries. The Soros network has also funded efforts to change the political priorities of American Catholics and to pass strongly pro-abortion legislation, such as a Michigan ballot measure to declare abortion a constitutional right. ‘
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254737/pope-francis-hosts-bill-clinton-foundation-head-alex-soros