Tag: pope francis u.s. visit

If I had tried to consume the full contents of Pope Francis' massive six-day spiritual feast as it was being dished out I would only have developed the spiritual, intellectual and emotional equivalent of a walloping bellyache.

“The pope is coming to Philadelphia,” Mayor Michael Nutter announced at a news conference Monday (Nov. 17), after the Vatican officially confirmed what has been rumored for months — that Pope Francis will visit the city in September 2015 for the eighth World Meeting of Families.