Pope lays out political, ecclesial vision
The six days of Pope Francis’s first U.S. visit were packed with historic speeches and meetings, as well as various masses, parades, photo ops, and lectures—the latter mainly to his bishops.
Dialogue amid disagreement, finding joy through sacrifice—these were notes the pope sounded in his speeches in Washington, D.C., his first stop, where he met President Obama and addressed Congress, and also when he spoke to the United Nations in Manhattan.
The 78-year-old pontiff began his trip September 19 with a three-day stay in Cuba before moving on to the United States, stopping also in Philadelphia, where close to a million people jammed a thoroughfare for his closing mass on September 27.
