DC Stop Of Pope Francis Trip Includes White House, Congress

“I think this is about speaking to and underscoring that the future of U.S. Catholicism is Latino”.

Francis will arrive in Washington from Cuba the afternoon of September 22, the itinerary says.

The night before that, he’ll lead evening prayer at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

“As the Holy Father has said, the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia is the central reason for his visit to the United States”, Chaput said. He’ll give America a new saint by canonizing the 18th-century Spanish missionary Junipero Serra at the National Shrine. The congregation will also include many studentsfrom Catholic University.

It will be conducted in Spanish, “which is everyone’s native language at this point, our second language as Americans”, Rossi said.

It’s his first trip to the United States.

“His visit will also serve as a marker for how far the World Trade Center has come since Pope Benedict XVI visited the site seven years ago, when it was still an open hole in the ground and closed off to the public”, Bloomberg said. “We’ll see if he follows local customs”.

“We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature”, Klein told an environmental conference with Catholic officials in Vatican City.

“For a Pope who likes to suddenly add stops on the road, mid-day breaks could bring surprises if Secret Service lets him get away with it”, tweeted Rocco Palmo, a popular Catholic blogger based in Philadelphia.

– Celebrates Mass in the minor Basilica of the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, Santiago. Walter R. Rossi, the rector of the Basilica of the National Shine of the Immaculate Conception.

On Sunday morning, he will meet with cardinals and bishops attending the World Meeting at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and with inmates at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. Some roads will be closed and parking on others restricted as events are held and the pope is shuttled around.

It was Francis who effectively helped broker the historic breakthrough between Washington and Havana last December, and by retracing the journey of so many exiles he reinforces another key message: reconciliation among peoples, and within societies.

Francis, the Vatican says, will celebrate Mass at the World Meeting of Families on September 27. Salvatore A. Criscuolo, pastor of St. Patrick Church, said in a statement. “Am I personally involved?”

“It’s not like you can hide the pope”, he said.

On Thursday, Pope Francis will address a joint session of Congress before heading to New York City.