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Miles Archer

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Fri Oct 2, 2015, 01:22 PM Oct 2015

Mario Batali Has Choice Words for Pope Francis: ‘Why Would He Meet with That Woman?’

Mario Batali Has Choice Words for Pope Francis: ‘Why Would He Meet with That Woman?’

http://www.thedailymeal.com/news/eat/mario-batali-has-choice-words-pope-francis-why-would-he-meet-woman/100215



During a cooking demonstration at New York City’s Eataly cooking school, as a part of the New York edition of Identità Golose (an international cooking convention in Milan), TV personality and Italian restaurant guru Mario Batali had something to say about Pope Francis and the encounter:

“I am going to potentially meet (Pope Francis), and I want to ask him just one question: Why would the Pope want to meet the one woman who wouldn’t want to give out marriage certificates to gay people?” Mario Batali said. He received enthusiastic applause for his comment from an audience that had been paying rapt attention to the chef’s demo of homemade goat cheese tortelloni (a larger tortellini).

Eventually Batali relented, letting audience members know that it seemed unbelievable that the Pope he knows would even entertain a meeting with Davis. “I think they made it up on the Internet because this is not that guy,” he said. “This is a guy who is eating with the hungry and homeless people. He’s not going to meet someone who’s refusing to do something for people. He’s just not that guy.”

The Vatican yesterday issued a statement saying, “The pope did not enter into the details of the situation of Mrs. Davis, and his meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects.”

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