I wonder why they are making any stir at all about the Pope not having a passport?? Can you imagine Britian or anyone checking the passport of the President of the US when he arrives in country? Brazil was accepting a foreign head of state to their country. I guess he might have offended some politicians with his views.
I find it amusing – in the movie The Queen, at the beginning when Elizabeth is meeting with the newly elected Tony Blair, she makes a comment to the effect that the first thing they do is take away his passport and then send him around the world.
Is it really necessary for a head of state/government to carry a passport? Were US officials checking Queen Elizabeth’s and Prince Phillip’s when they were in the US recently.
Let’s see – official guests arrive on official airplane. Seems like a no brainer to me.
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I wonder why they are making any stir at all about the Pope not having a passport?? Can you imagine Britian or anyone checking the passport of the President of the US when he arrives in country? Brazil was accepting a foreign head of state to their country. I guess he might have offended some politicians with his views.
Under the Mercy,
Matthew S
The bizarre is fact pope is absolut monarch, he has absolut legislative and executive power, so he could create his new passport immediately. :o))))
Slow news week?
His passport application was probably delayed due to the enormous backlogs in the Vatican governmental bureaucracies
I find it amusing – in the movie The Queen, at the beginning when Elizabeth is meeting with the newly elected Tony Blair, she makes a comment to the effect that the first thing they do is take away his passport and then send him around the world.
Is it really necessary for a head of state/government to carry a passport? Were US officials checking Queen Elizabeth’s and Prince Phillip’s when they were in the US recently.
Let’s see – official guests arrive on official airplane. Seems like a no brainer to me.