Pope Francis urges for ‘immediate climate change’ in White House address

Apparently, the pontiff is a fan of dogs as he met two of the most famous pets in the country – Bo and Sunny!

Pope Francis called on lawmakers to help fight climate change in an address to Congress Thursday that leaned heavily on his historic June encyclical focused on protecting the Earth from global warming.

“He came across rather serious today, but also with that sense of passion and warmth about what he was saying and you certainly get that more in person than just seeing it on television”, Tobin said. The pontiff commended Obama for introducing an initiative to reduce air pollution.

Huge crowds of admirers and fans gave Pope Francis an enthusiastic reception in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, beginning with the thousands who packed the South Lawn of the White House.

Correspondents say the subject matter for the Pope’s speech may range from the environment to the economy.

“I thought a lot about the work of our Catholic Charities”, Flores said as he reflected on the pope’s words. The Pope is due to spend the rest of the day with Roman Catholic bishops before attending Mass at Washington’s Catholic University.

The Pope’s visit comes at a tricky political time and his speech to Congress will likely include a multitude of highly contested domestic issues like immigration and abortion.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle are looking to co-op parts of Pope Francis’ message, yet that message doesn’t fit neatly into either political party’s box.

Because he was on a committee of bishops who would greet the pope, Flores said he sat in the fourth row of St. Matthews during the roughly half hour talk that the pope delivered to the gathering of cardinals and bishops.

Pope Francis’s first visit to the U.S.is getting plenty of attention around the world, and it’s a hot topic among Catholics in Abilene.

“We must not be taken aback by their numbers, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation”. He canonized the first saint on US soil. “You shake our conscience from slumber”, he said.

Earnest went back to Spiering’s citing of the Little Sisters of the Poor court case and said that the federal judges who have looked at the case notice that the administration’s efforts to protect the religious freedom of the organization were successful.