Oh, of course. How silly of me! I should have realized that it is a completely irrelevant fact that Pope Francis has already met (more than once) with precisely the kinds of evangelical ministers that Winters says he should not meet & that his close advisors Spadaro & Figueroa castigate conservative Catholics for being locked arm-in-arm with to spread hateful political ideologies! 

FYI - RNS's Cindy Wooten reported at the time that Pope Francis extended the invitation to Copeland & others (including Sen. Mike Lee). Of course, even when Rome DOES state that a meeting has the intent of expressly showing Pope Francis's support - as it did when Pope Francis visited the Little Sisters of the Poor, you simply take that inconvenient fact & explain it away to ensure it doesn't contradict your view.

Careful, Mr. DeHaas - someone will accuse of you showing your "bias", or of lacking "nuance" or "objectivity."