{"id":6574,"date":"2017-05-25T08:57:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=6574"},"modified":"2017-05-26T15:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T21:32:42","slug":"pope-greet-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2017\/05\/pope-greet-president.html","title":{"rendered":"How Does a Pope Greet a President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6578\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/533\/2017\/05\/14037472464_9569a64302_b-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"from Flickr: https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/113018453@N05\/14037472464\" width=\"531\" height=\"355\"><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the Pope, smiling. \u00a0Just an image from somewhere, like many others.<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s the image that everyone\u2019s been talking about, after President Trump\u2019s visit:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/687570926\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 68.181818% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/687570926?et=SfttUfj1ThFsNuQFJrP0TA&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=5sTDrs38Wt8GaMyIFx9QLL_dUofNERAqXSR8AnfeScg=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The reaction on Twitter, and sites such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2017\/05\/24\/pope_francis_doesn_t_seem_to_like_president_trump_very_much.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Slate<\/a>\u00a0or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/opinion-trump-and-the-pope-two-leaders-worlds-apart\/a-38973597\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deutsche Welle<\/a>? \u00a0Trump is such a Bad Man that he justly deserved the grumpy expression from the Pope.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, that\u2019s not how Pope-ing works.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we all know that the Pope doesn\u2019t like Trump. \u00a0He objects to Trump\u2019s policies, just as he\u2019d likely object to the policies of any Republican president that supports immigration enforcement, opposes a generous social welfare state, seeks to balance environmental regulations in light of their economic cost, and so on, and has a personal dislike for the man himself.<\/p>\n<p>And we don\u2019t know what was discussed during the private audience.<\/p>\n<p>But if this grumpy expression, that the left is so gleeful over, is any indication, the Pope, at best, mumbled through some stiff formalities for a half hour, or, worse, lectured Trump on the need to adopt socialism and open borders. \u00a0This is not the expression of a man who cares about finding common ground, or reaching out on a personal level, or, shall we say, building bridges.<\/p>\n<p>Now maybe it doesn\u2019t matter. \u00a0\u201cTrump came as a tourist, and wanted to meet the Pope just because he\u2019s a famous person.\u201d \u201cTrump doesn\u2019t deserve to be rewarded.\u201d \u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s not like the Pope invited him, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe, as others have claimed, there was no difference in the reception of Trump and Obama, and in both cases the Pope got tired of holding the smile for the cameras, but the liberal media chose to publicize those images of a grumpy Pope now, and the smiling Pope before. \u00a0In which case, it reflects poorly on the media.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the 1800s, when custom dictated serious expressions on photographs. \u00a0(Because of bad teeth? Because the exposure needed so much time that an attempt to hold a smile would ruin the picture? \u00a0I\u2019ve read multiple explanations.)<\/p>\n<p>This is 2017. \u00a0And the audience is an American one, and the Pope knows that. \u00a0And a part of our contemporary American culture is that one smiles for photographs, or, more generally speaking, upon meeting someone. \u00a0Heck, it\u2019s so ingrained that occasionally mug shots float around of hapless people smiling for the camera because that\u2019s what you do. \u00a0To not smile, is rude. \u00a0To be chipper that someone else didn\u2019t smile, it to take pride in rudeness.<\/p>\n<p>Or it\u2019s all a lack of cultural competency, and an unwillingness to acquire it. \u00a0We all know that Americans are mocked for their lack of cultural competency in boorishly greeting everyone in a foreign environment, but it goes both ways. \u00a0And, again, even if the Pope was indeed hospitable and smiling and the media disseminated misleading images, they\u2019ve doing a disservice in making him look culturally incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Images: \u00a0 Pope Francis from\u00a0from Flickr: https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/113018453@N05\/14037472464. \u00a0Pope + Trump, Getty Images Embed.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A part of our contemporary American culture is that one smiles for photographs or upon meeting someone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":6578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[632,317,325],"class_list":["post-6574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politeness","tag-pope-francis","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Does a 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