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During the Mass at Madison Square Garden, Francis focused his homily on life in big cities populated by many forgotten or “second-class” citizens.

Washington, D.C. may be more than 1,000 miles away, but for a group of students at a small Dallas Catholic school, the pope’s congressional address hit close to home.

In Havana, the pope met Fidel Castro over the weekend in a 40-minute session at the former president’s home that the Vatican described as “informal and familial”, with an exchange of books and discussion about issues facing humanity.

Ahead of his first US visit, Pope Francis celebrated mass in Cuba Sunday before hundreds of thousands of worshipers in Havana’s Revolution Square.

The paragraph defines politics in terms of the “compelling need to live as one” and building a common good that “sacrifices particular interests in order to share, in justice and peace, its goods, its interests, its social life”.

Some may opt to hide from the crowds inside the corner of their dorm room. “Wind developers have received approval to install at least seventy-seven 3 Megawatt IWTs in the West Lincoln region, each as tall as a 61 story building, some so close to residential areas that...

“Our backyard is not typically this crowded – but the size and spirit of today’s gathering is just a small reflection of the deep devotion of some 70 million American Catholics“. What stood out for you? Here in Washington, an example of Catholic...

“[Serra] was the embodiment of a Church which goes forth”, the Pope said on Wednesday.

HANDOUT/REUTERS/ Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (l.) greets Pope Francis after a mass in Havana’s Revolution Square in Cuba. Ortega was among many priests sent to military-run agricultural camps in the 1960s after Fidel Castro declared Cuba to be...

NYPD Commissioner William Bratton, also appearing on CBS Tuesday, said there have been no credible threats made against Francis in New York, Philadelphia or Washington, DC, where the pope arrived Tuesday afternoon.

With his arrival in Havana, where he was greeted by President Raul Castro, he became the third pontiff to visit Cuba in the past 17 years – a remarkable record for any country, much less one with a small community of practicing Catholics.

His corrective about his ideology is a significant prelude to his arrival in the US , as the Democratic Party has increasingly attempted to claim Francis as their policy champion over the past few months. Numerous tickets were handed out early and they will not be scalped as some...

The choice of vehicle was in keeping with his simple habits and his stand against consumerism.

Pope Francis’ USA arrival is encouraging local families to take the trip to see him up close.

This Pope, he said, “doesn’t fit the political and ideological categories of Washington“. She joined the social office about two years ago and immediately impressed Mrs. Obama with “her passion, creativity, public-mindedness and relentless...