Area faithful excited to attend historic visit by Pope Francis

A bilingual version of Maine-based pop artist Indiana?s?LOVE? sculpture called the “AMOR” is going on display outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art, near where the pope?s altar is being built.

All papal visit events will be live streamed on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops website.

We will be on the ground starting Tuesday at the World Meeting of Families and have a team of reporters to get all your stories when the pope arrives.

It’s going to take an army of volunteers to make sure that the World Meeting of Families Congress and Pope Francis’ visit to Philadelphia runs smoothly – 10,000 volunteers to be exact.

Other people plan to follow the pope’s progress, hear him speak, and/or attend the Mass that he’s giving on the parkway.

“We believe we have struck that right balance for the public, and we look forward to a safe and successful visit by the Holy Father here”, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson told reporters in a Philadelphia multiagency communications center. “The level of protection afforded to Pope Francis is equal to or exceeding that provided to the president of the United States”.

Both the Bishop and the Ybarra’s will be sending thoughts and prayers back to Lubbock while on their trip. “People are able to relate to him in his simplicity”. He said he expects the pope will not mince words.

As a result, a lot of folks are dreading Pope-a-Palooza. He assumes that he will also talk about caring for the environment, immigrants, the poor and those on the margins, and the Church as a field hospital, themes he’s sounded repeatedly. He also will be present to greet the Pope at Saint Matthew’s Cathedral on Wednesday afternoon in Washington, DC.

In the afternoon, he will visit the Our Lady Queen of Angels School in East Harlem, hold a papal motorcade through Central Park, and officiate in a Madison Square Garden Mass. There the pope is to address them.

“And also for the World Meeting of Families, which is the main reason why Pope Francis is coming to America“. He is not among them.

Rosemary Schaab, 52, of Glassboro, will be volunteering with 125 other associates from AmerisourceBergen are volunteering that weekend to help direct visitors.

But, he said, he met Pope Francis briefly in Rome after a Wednesday audience a couple years ago.