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“When the president sits down with Pope Francis tomorrow in the Oval Office, the president will not arrive at that meeting with a political agenda”.

As the greetings took place, the crowd assembled at Joint Base Andrews was heard chanting “Ho Ho Hey Hey Welcome to the United States of America!”

“I’m sure that I haven’t said anything more than what’s written in the social doctrine of the Church”, he said.

His corrective about his ideology is a significant prelude to his arrival in the USA , as the Democratic Party has increasingly attempted to claim Francis as their policy champion over the past few months.

A delegation of 15 people from the Assembly of Civil Rights at Incarnation Catholic Church in Minneapolis are driving across the country to Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia for the Pope’s visit.

An Alitalia plane carrying the Argentine-born leader of the world’s 1.2 billion member Roman Catholic church touched down at Joint Base Andrews after a flight from Cuba.

The 78-year-old Argentine pontiff stepped onto USA soil for the first time at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, where he was greeted by US President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters.

The latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. Take, for instance, the city’s three Potbelly locations.

He will speak to Congress and to schoolchildren in Harlem.

“Francis has come to bless this new union between Cuba and the United States“, said Enrique Mesa, a 32-year-old tourism worker.

While he is visiting Washington, D.C. and New York City, Philadelphia-our home-is arguably the most important stop on his tour.

After mass, the pope will meet with Castro, then preside over vespers at Havana Cathedral before holding an unscripted exchange with young Cubans – a demographic feeling the pain of the communist island’s hard economic transition.

Despite what appeared to be thousands of plainclothes and uniformed security officers in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution during a papal Mass on Sunday, a man began emotionally appealing to the pope and grabbing onto the popemobile as it drove through the crowd before the...

“He’s directly challenging so numerous things that have become political issues here in the United States“, Burns said. The fifth grader is one five Catholic school students chosen by the Diocese of Brooklyn to greet the pope when he arrives at John F. Kennedy...

The group from Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora will fly to Philadelphia to meet up with other high schoolers, and see the Pope say mass this coming weekend. That is not counting the crowds that will turn out in Washington and New York.