Two non-Catholics meet: Obama’s persecution of the Catholic Church has no apparent effect on Jorge Bergoglio, who yucks it up today with the president.

Jimmy Carter meets with John Paul II in 1979. Under John Paul II, who never affirmed the Church’s perennial teachings that women should submit to male authority, the Novus Ordo liturgy became dominated by the female laity. Carter nevertheless insists that the Catholic Church is responsible for oppressing women throughout the world.

John F. Kennedy, who publicly renounced his Catholicism during his presidential campaign, declined to kiss Paul VI’s ring during their meeting shortly before Kennedy’s assassination.