Pope Francis visit to US

[Tibs]

Quite a remarkable man, in my estimation. Looking forward to hearing his speech to Congress.

Pope Francis Visits Washington D.C.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015
4pm: Pope Francis arrives in D.C. at Joint Base Andrews at 4 p.m.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015
9:15 a.m: White House Welcoming Ceremony and personal meeting with President Barack Obama
11:00 a.m. Papal Parade along the Ellipse and the National Mall
11:30 a.m: Midday Prayer with U.S. bishops at Saint Matthew’s Cathedral in D.C.
4:15 p.m: Junipero Serra Canonization Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

Thursday, September 24, 2015
9:20 a.m: Arrival at Capitol
10 a.m. Speech to the Senate and House of Representatives (Joint Session of Congress)
11 a.m. Brief appearance on West Front of Capitol
11:15 a.m: Visit to St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in D.C. and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington
4 p.m: Departure for New York from Joint Base Andrews (D.C.)
5 p.m. Arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport (New York)
6:45 p.m. Evening prayer at St. Patrick’s Cathedral (New York)

Pope Francis Visits New York

Friday, September 25, 2015
8:30 a.m United Nations General-Assembly
11:30 a.m Multi-religious service at 9/11 Memorial and Museum, World Trade Center
4 p.m. Visit to Our Lady Queen of Angels School in East Harlem
5 p.m. Papal motorcade through Central Park
6 p.m. Madison Square Garden Mass

Pope Francis Visits Philadelphia

Saturday, September 26, 2015
8:40 a.m Departure for Philadelphia from John F. Kennedy International Airport
9:30 a.m Arrival in Atlantic Aviation hangar at Philadelphia International Airport Philadelphia
10:30 a.m Mass at Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul
4:45 p.m Visit to Independence Mall
7:30 p.m Visit to Festival of Families at Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Prayer Vigil with World Meeting of Families

Sunday, September 27, 2015
9:15 a.m Papal meeting with Bishops at St. Martin’s Chapel, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary
11 a.m Visit to Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility
4 p.m Papal Mass for World Meeting of Families
7 p.m. Visit with organizers, volunteers and benefactors of the World Meeting of Families at Atlantic Aviation
8 p.m Departure for return to Rome

Live video coverage: http://www.usccb.org/about/leadersh...l-visit-2015/papal-visit-2015-live-stream.cfm

Bernie Sanders is welcoming him with open arms.
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[ark steel]

Of course, he is, they are fellow capitalism haters.

 

[Spike]

The Pope was looking directly in my eyes from the tee-vee as I made my bookie bets today

I wasn't ascared

 

[Tibs]

Open your hearts, and your minds...

Pope Francis’ Address at Welcome Ceremony
The White House South Lawn, Washington
Wednesday September 23, 2015

Mr. President,

I am deeply grateful for your welcome in the name of all Americans. As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in this country, which was largely built by such families. I look forward to these days of encounter and dialogue, in which I hope to listen to, and share, many of the hopes and dreams of the American people.

During my visit I will have the honor of addressing Congress, where I hope, as a brother of this country, to offer words of encouragement to those called to guide the nation’s political future in fidelity to its founding principles. I will also travel to Philadelphia for the Eighth World Meeting of Families, to celebrate and support the institutions of marriage and the family at this, a critical moment in the history of our civilization.

Mr. President, together with their fellow citizens, American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination. With countless other people of good will, they are likewise concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and their right to religious liberty. That freedom remains one of America’s most precious possessions. And, as my brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.

Mr. President, I find it encouraging that you are proposing an initiative for reducing air pollution. Accepting the urgency, it seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation. When it comes to the care of our “common home”, we are living at a critical moment of history. We still have time to make the changes needed to bring about “a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change” (Laudato Si’, 13). Such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children, but also to the millions of people living under a system which has overlooked them. Our common home has been part of this group of the excluded which cries out to heaven and which today powerfully strikes our homes, our cities and our societies. To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

We know by faith that “the Creator does not abandon us; he never forsakes his loving plan or repents of having created us. Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home” (Laudato Si’, 13). As Christians inspired by this certainty, we wish to commit ourselves to the conscious and responsible care of our common home.

The efforts which were recently made to mend broken relationships and to open new doors to cooperation within our human family represent positive steps along the path of reconciliation, justice and freedom. I would like all men and women of good will in this great nation to support the efforts of the international community to protect the vulnerable in our world and to stimulate integral and inclusive models of development, so that our brothers and sisters everywhere may know the blessings of peace and prosperity which God wills for all his children.

Mr. President, once again I thank you for your welcome, and I look forward to these days in your country. God bless America!

 

[DBS1970]

Commie Pope like most leftists has no concept of how economics works.And in embracing socialism he is embracing evil.

 

[hamster]

If I want to get an interpretation of the Pope's declarations, I go right to the expert..............

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I blessed The Vatican with my Terrible Towel back in 2012, so I wouldn't worry too much.

 

[Spike]

Do they still have finger bones and body parts of Saints they carry around in those sacred relics?


Seems medieval to me...and all that swinging around of incense....does that really protect you from the Devil?

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Do they still have finger bones and body parts of Saints they carry around in those sacred relics?

Yes. I also walked through the basement where all the Popes are buried. Also spent a week in Siena which is famous for St. Catherine of Siena and the basilica* has her 700 year old mummified head in a glass case.

Seems medieval to me...and all that swinging around of incense....does that really protect you from the Devil?

No, it's garlic that protects you from the devil.


* A cathedral is a church with no dead bodies inside. A basilica is a church with at least one person buried in it.

 

[hamster]

Seems medieval to me...and all that swinging around of incense....does that really protect you from the Devil?

The Devil retreats from those with COPD.

 

[Spike]

On White House Lawn, Pope calls on U.S. to fight climate change

WASHINGTON - Pope Francis on Wednesday urged the United States to help tackle climate change and touched on other divisive U.S. political issues such as immigration and economic inequality on his first visit to the world's richest nation.

In a speech on the White House South Lawn on the first full day of his U.S. trip, the Argentine pontiff lauded President Barack Obama's efforts to reduce air pollution, months after Francis made the environment one of his top concerns by issuing a landmark encyclical letter to the church.

"It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation. When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history," the pope said at a welcoming ceremony.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2015/09/2...climate-change

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You can yell at the wind all you want, but you wont change the weather......yea verily

 

[IndySteel]

He's out of his ******* mind. I was born and raised Catholic and I'm done with them.

 

[hook]

He's out of his ******* mind. I was born and raised Catholic and I'm done with them.

Me too. When they were caught playing hide a pedophile, they lost me.

 

[DBS1970]

It doesn't surprise me any that Commie Pope is beatingThe drum for the global warming hoax. It's really just about controlling people more. Commies love to control people.

 

[Troglodyte]

Me too. When they were caught playing hide a pedophile, they lost me.

I guess Indy was able to tolerate that, but this climate change nonsense is just too much.

 

[Vis]

He's out of his ******* mind. I was born and raised Catholic and I'm done with them.

It wasn't the BS about limbo but being good to the poor that put you over the edge?

 

[Ron Burgundy]

He's out of his ******* mind. I was born and raised Catholic and I'm done with them.

Come over to the Lutheran side. We're sort of like Catholic Lite. And we have cookies. Seriously.

 

[SteelChip]

On White House Lawn, Pope calls on U.S. to fight climate change

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2015/09/2...climate-change

-----------------You can yell at the wind all you want, but you wont change the weather......yea verily

 

[Spike]

It doesn't surprise me any that Commie Pope is beatingThe drum for the global warming hoax. It's really just about controlling people more. .

It's really about wealth distribution, the New World Order...and Reparations!

Too hot? - Extreme Weather Reparations!
Too cold - Extreme Weather Reparations!
Too much rain? - Extreme Weather Reparations!
Too little rain? - Extreme Weather Reparations!



Poor nations want U.S. to pay reparations for extreme weather

Poorer nations blame extreme weather-related disasters on climate change stemming from emission-polluting countries that have more developed and wealthier economies.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/09/12/kostigen-climate-change-reparations/72014440/

 

[Troglodyte]

Come over to the Lutheran side. We're sort of like Catholic Lite. And we have cookies. Seriously.

But we also believe everything happens for a reason which has always struck me as a bunch of bullshit.

 

[IndySteel]

It wasn't the BS about limbo but being good to the poor that put you over the edge?

No, it was after my divorce in 2007. I can't take communion until I get an annulment? **** you... I loved John Paul II but the Nazi pope and now this clown... they're all corrupt.

 

[IndySteel]

Come over to the Lutheran side. We're sort of like Catholic Lite. And we have cookies. Seriously.

I went to a Lutheran service once. I thought there was way too much "we're not worthy" **** going on. No offense...

 

[IndySteel]

I guess Indy was able to tolerate that, but this climate change nonsense is just too much.

You guessed wrong. It's everything compounded.

 

[Spike]

Jesus nailed to a Hammer & Sickle was enough for me

 

[Vis]

No, it was after my divorce in 2007. I can't take communion until I get an annulment? **** you... I loved John Paul II but the Nazi pope and now this clown... they're all corrupt.

Try secularism. Divorces come with visa points.