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Pope Francis In America

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In New York, Roman Catholic officials have walked Pope Francis’ expected path through the National September 11 Memorial and timed it at five to seven minutes. In Washington, studios for television news anchors are being erected on the roofs of the Catholic University of America. In a quiet corner of Philadelphia, the buzzing center of papal-preparation madness, there stands, carefully guarded, a lectern newly wrought of burnished black walnut, the product of thousands of dollars in labor and materials, that is just a stand-in for the one the pope will use. Up and down the Northeast corridor, armies of organizers and event planners, stagehands and counterterrorism experts, tree pruners and translators, high school tuba players and even a …show more content…

Visit, Will Reach Out to the StrugglingSEPT. 16, 2015 Workers prepared a scaffold on Friday near the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, where the pope will say Mass.Washington to Come to a Halt for Pope, Willingly or NotSEPT. 18, 2015 The Benjamin Franklin Parkway, in downtown Philadelphia, will host a concert and a papal Mass next weekend.Francis in America: In Philadelphia, Putting on a Show for a Holy HeadlinerSEPT. 19, 2015 President Obama met with Pope Francis at the Vatican in March 2014.News Analysis: Pope Francis’ U.S. Visit Could Benefit Both Left and RightSEPT. 21, 2015 video Pope Francis Visits: Day 2 in CubaSEPT. 20, 2015 Much has been made of this pope’s penchant for simplicity and understatement, his preference for modesty over show. But as those charged with procurement of wafers and the placement of metal detectors can attest, nothing is simple about a six-day, three-city, two-dozen-event papal trip that is a cross between a military operation, a diplomatic mission and an arena-rock

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