Dispatches: Pope Francis’ Message for the US Congress

Toni’s Kitchen in Montclair also shares the Pope’s message of feeding the hungry. I wholeheartedly agree with Pope Francis, who urged us to be open to immigrants and refugees as persons, not numbers. “So we’re supping with the pope”. Congress must use its prominence to lead the world in efforts to reduce climate change.

Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar: “In Congress, partisanship has become far too common”.

Pope Francis condemned legalised abortion, the death penalty and unscrupulous weapons sales and called on Congress to “seize the moment” by moving forward with normalising relations with Cuba.

The long-awaited arrival of Pope Francis to Washington, has met the expectations of many Catholics, who look to him for guidance, as the leader of the Vatican and the Catholic Church as a whole. Others, meanwhile, have pushed for her sainthood.

“You saw in the faces of Congress today that wrapped attention”, he said. “Today, someone stood up for the people in my community and the message will definitely sink in. And if there are among you any who do not believe or cannot pray, I ask you to please send good wishes my way”, said Pope Francis. Through acts of kindness and devotion to the bettering of our community, we can heed Pope Francis’s call to make our country and the world a better place. They just don’t believe in robust government programs to help them. “Let us take that as the lesson from what the Pope said, and let us commit to making it part of our lives every day”, said Menendez.

In his first address in New York, Pope Francis lamented the suffering caused by the sexual abuse scandal in the United States – not only for the trauma inflicted on the Church’s most vulnerable members, but also for the shame it has brought to priests and religious in general.

I was blessed to be among the 10,000 people who greeted the Pope on the South Lawn of the White House, and it touched me beyond all expectation, in a way that had nothing to do with ideology. And he did so to the very audience of legislators that “failed” to approve a sweeping legalization program for 11 million people, mostly Catholic Latinos, living in the United States without residency papers to gain legal status.

“In the context of answering this question in the past, the president has noted his concerns with the way that the death penalty has been applied”, Earnest said. “For the thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the nightmare of oppression, in search of safety, stability, and salvation, we say welcome”, de Blasio said in a statement.