Posted on 07/25/2014 12:30:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput announced today at a conference in Fargo, North Dakota that Pope Francis has accepted his invitation to come to Philadelphia in September 2015 to attend the World Meeting of Families. Chaput's announcement confirmed rumors that the Supreme Pontiff was coming to the United States. The World Meeting of Families is an event held every three years by the Pontifical Council of the Family.
Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J. confirmed that the Bishop of Rome was indeed coming to Philadelphia for the event, and was also mulling offers to visit other major cities on the East Coast during his trip.
Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said Friday that Pope Francis has expressed "his willingness to participate in the World Meeting of Families" in Philadelphia, and has received invitations to visit other cities as well, which he is considering. Those invitations include New York, the United Nations and Washington.
The World Meeting of Families drew over a million people in 2012 in Milan, Italy for a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. It is likely the crowd in Philadelphia will be even larger, considering Pope Francis' popularity in the United States.
Personally, I'm pretty excited for Pope Francis' first trip to the United States since his election. I'm very curious about what he will have to say at the event, especially considering that this year's theme is the family's intrinsic value for society. In a time of rapidly falling birthrates and marriage rates, I wonder what Pope Francis will suggest as a possible solution.
Doing good hon....working at the Acme now and have my 88 year old Dad with me.
He now appears to be waking up a bit, but if you read the article, he still gets it wrong. Chaput doesn't realize that Latino culture will vote for big government. He slanders US culture along the way, too, blaming IT for Latino culture trends.
Chaput can go kiss my patoot.
Pelosi will keep clear of the Holy Father, during her last visit, he refused her the chance of a photo op, and she did not receive communion from him.
I used to be Catholic. And my work trying to stop abortion, and trying to get the support of the Catholic Church in my area to talk out about it, showed just the opposite.
Sadly. Horribly. Blatantly. The support and building up of the "Catholic Organization" always comes before standing up for life.
That's why I will no longer be called "Catholic".
Might substitute a couple days a week come next year.
They are all in support of the CC when it suits them, on issues like death penalty, helping the poor...but when it comes to life issues they hate us.
Don't let them divide us, my FRiend.
I guess that's all you can do when you can't reply to any single of the salient points I laid out.
Thanks for the ping. Apparently, Pope Francis has been invited to multiple cities including Tijuana. Even NYC’s socialist mayor DeBlasio has extended an invitation. So far, all of this is speculation. He has not confirmed where he will visit but the best guess is Philadelphia to attend the Conference on the Family. Let’s hope that, regardless of where he goes, O does not turn this into a photo op. Oh, wait, Obama does not do photo ops.
Since our discussion has begun you have referred to the head of the CC as “Fluffy”. Not sure what that is all about, but our discussion is over.
Darn. I was hoping it was to preside over the trial of congressional Democrats for heresy.
The nearby Catholic church has a rainbow across their Mass times.
Hmm....
If you really were Catholic, I would contend you were not, then you should have talked to your Bishop. If your parish sucks, that is a problem but don’t project your issues on to the entire Church.
Cool, but he should come out west!
I did.
What Diocese, please?
Hide the little boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
San Jose.
And welcome to why I'm glad I'm not Catholic. All I was doing was working vigorously at living out he Catechism of the Church, and getting flack along the way.
The Catholic Church: Worshipers of an organization, not Jesus Christ.
Trust me NYER I know some Mexican food restaurant I could take ole Pope Francis LOL!
These hole in the wall ma and pa restaurants
It took us 10 years to get a Sister removed. But we did. Some of the folks on this forum know people. Let me see what I can dig up.
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