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I believe he was responding to me rockyhilldawg and he made it a little confusing by attempt to be clever, but the only thing I would add to your well stated response would be to ask why he refuses to accept that not only did the pope undeniably state that in no way was there a personal meeting with Ms. Davis, but he also refuses to agree in anyway with her political stance.

He also refuses to address the fact that the pope DID have a private meeting with an openly gay man and it was so that he could give him a hug.

I wasn't awake at 2:30 on a Sunday morning - a church day for some - when he posted his bizarre challenge or I might have been able to keep you from having from even considering this.

He was also a former student of the Pope and he knew him very well.

It was entertaining to watch the US media cover the Pope visit... one would come away thinking that the single biggest thing the Pope is concerned with is Climate Change.

I've seen some funny memes on FB about republicans telling him to leave climate change to the scientists (which is funny because republicans don't believe scientists either).. but then the Pope responding that he is a chemist. From what I can tell, the guy kind of majored in chemistry in High School and worked for a few years in food processing.... he has been in the priesthood since he was 22.. yet folks act like he has been a scientist all his life..

90% of what he said about abortion and family and prosperity was totally ignored by the US media as they focused on the one or two things out of each speech that they could connect with to say, "See, he agrees with us."

All quite comical.

Does Pope Francis have a master's degree in chemistry?

Numerous press reports are saying that Pope Francis has a master's degree in chemistry, including one that incorrectly cites me as a source. Sorry, it is not true.
It is true that Pope Francis studied chemistry and worked as a chemist prior to entering the seminary. But Jorge Bergoglio never graduated from university prior to entering the seminary.

"For Bergoglio's generation, a university education was still something pretty much beyond the reach of his social class," explains Jesuit Fr. Arthur Liebscher, associate professor of Latin American church history at Santa Clara University. "Although Argentine education is completely free of charge, there was an elitist air to finishing a licentiate or doctorate. Bergoglio took advantage of what was available, and it wasn't bad."

What he did do was graduate with a título in chemistry from the Escuela Técnica Industrial No. 12*, which is a state-run technical secondary school.

In the Argentine system, "the título (same word used for a secondary diploma or a university degree) was earned at about age 19 after an extended secondary program," Liebscher said. "Not everyone who goes to secondary school gets one of those diplomas, and the título really represents something beyond our high-school diploma, something akin a certificate from a community college in the U.S."

In Liebscher's opinion, "the education offered in such Argentine schools is quite a bit better, certainly in Bergoglio's era, than what we'd find in a North American high school."

"Bergoglio did receive a secular education aimed at employment in a technical field," Liebscher said. "However, he did not receive a university degree in chemistry."

Liebscher said he hopes this does not sound like "we're denigrating his education. Francis certainly respects the scientific method, and careful measurement ranks high in his list of values."

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Not much different than what you're saying, but to criticize even more of the media, it seems conservative media pundits are putting a lot of effort into discrediting much of the pope's message.

So he's slightly less qualified than Bill Nye?