Tag: Papal US Visits

If 2014 was the year of media misunderstandings of the pope, 2015 was the year Catholics got him wrong. It should have been a defining year for Pope Francis as a defender of

 REUTERS/Mike Segar via Flipboard In Pope Francis’ visit to America, religious freedom was a key theme in his public addresses from the White House to Independence Hall in Philadelphia. But even more

Several Ravens encountered Pope Francis when he visited the United States — including Benedictine College President Stephen D. Minnis and the Sister Anne Shepard, OSB, Prioress of Mount St. Scholastica Monastery and

Julie Jacobson/Pool/AP via Flipboard The papal jet has lifted off, the emoji pope pictures have been put away, the fan-girl nuns have all gone home and the starry-eyed masses have left the

Pope Francis spoke to 300 U.S. bishops today, Sept. 23, at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C. He took the occasion to give them advice that could be understood as lessons in

Papal visits follow a fairly predictable arc — they are predictably unpredictable. Remember Pope John Paul II’s first World Youth Day in America, in Denver? Church officials were told a cold, hostile America would