Pope Totally Goes Off GOP Script

Pope Calls Health Care An ‘Inalienable Right,’ Urges World Governments To Provide Universal Coverage

At an international papal conference on health care yesterday at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI and other Catholic church leaders said it is the “moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay.” Saying access to adequate medical care is one of the “inalienable rights” of man, the pope said, “Justice in health care should be a priority of governments and international institutions”

1) Damage control, 2) denunciations, 3) attempts to exegete this to mean the exact opposite of what the Pope said, 4) explanations that it can all be safely ignored since Think Progress is reporting it, 5) “smoke of Satan in the Vatican” conspiracy chatter, and 6) various other strategies for ignoring the Pope in 3, 2, 1….