Rep. Paul Gosar: Pope’s Speech a ‘Missed Opportunity’

“He gave me a lot of hope”, said Rendon said after hearing the pope speak.

Trump went on to say that clean energy policies to reduce Carbon dioxide emissions would “imperil jobs”.

After his speech the pontiff made his way to the 9/11 memorial, where two waterfall pools mark the outlines of the World Trade Centre’s twin towers before they were toppled by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Pope Francis has told the US Congress that the U.S. must see migrants as “persons” and not as “numbers”. He nodded to the plight of immigrants and refugees, while also noting the sanctity of human life “at every stage of its development”.

NewsOne Now panelist A. Scott Bolden explained politicians are struggling with Pope Francis’ stance on many issues regardless of party affiliation.

“You suffered greatly in the not distant past by having to bear the shame of some of your brothers who harmed and scandalized the Church in the most vulnerable of her members”, Francis said.

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.

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He spoke of the plight of poor Central Americans and Mexicans who make deadly treks across the Mexican border. Junior Matthew Rea says he’s been looking forward to the Pope’s visit. “But anytime you’re talking about the fundamental nature and the very basis of marriage, I don’t think that proponents of same-sex marriage can count that in their favor, frankly”.

And junior Joe Lynch said he liked how the pope held Congress accountable.

Pope Francis then headed to New York to share the celebration of Vespers with the clergy, priests and sisters at the Cathedral of St. Patrick of that city. He said that the family would be “a recurrent theme” of his public talks during this week’s visit, and he lamented that the family “is threatened, perhaps as never before, from within and without”.

“Is this not what we want for our own children?” he asked.