Federal Bureau of Investigation foils ISIS-related plot against Pope Francis

Tickets for the papal mass and the Festival of Families during Pope Francis’ visit to Philadelphia will be available Wednesday.

Congressman Mike McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that there are known threats to Pope Francis’s life.

The boy was communicating with people overseas and looking at ISIS material online but didn’t have access to the funds or resources to carry out his plot, a source with knowledge of the case told NBC News.

The boy is now facing charges of attempting to provide material support to terrorists, as well as to terrorist-related activities.

Louis C. Hochman is digital managing editor for NJ1015.com. Father Lombardi said that in all three stops of his visit, the Pope will be paying particular attention to the welfare of the poor, to prisoners and to charitable initiatives. Pope Francis’ engagements in Cuba include an open-air Mass in Havana during which he will give first communion to five children in a move symbolizing hope and growth for the Catholic Church there. ABC sources said the dignitary was Pope Francis.

“The minor was inspired by [ISIS] and sought to conduct a detailed homeland attack which included multiple attackers, firearms and multiple explosives, targeting a foreign dignitary at a high-profile event,” read the brief, which was issued on August 14.

“We trust that this occasion will be the biggest security challenge that the division and this city have ever confronted”, New York’s police chief, William J. Bratton, said at an instructions Monday, alluding to the ecclesiastical visit, the United Nations social occasion and the show. Federal officials said that the teen was inspired by Islamic State propaganda, and was using social media to recruit co-conspirators.

The report comes every week earlier than Pope Francis’ first journey to the US, the place elaborate safety measures are being taken for the pontiff’s visits to Washington, New York and Philadelphia.

Threats against the pope (or any head of state) are unfortunately fairly common, yet the fact that the suspect in this case is 15 most certainly is not.