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IT Email Facebook Twitter Youtube RSS SUPPORT US NEWSLETTER Edition Sign in Sign up Bg_logo_ft The world seen from Rome search News Sections Columns Documents The Pope Editorial Tools Advertising Contact A- A A+ Pope Francis’ Address During Welcoming Ceremony at White House “American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination.” Washington, D.C., September 23, 2015 (ZENIT.org) Staff Reporter | 64 hits Here is the address delivered by Pope Francis during the Welcoming Ceremony held on the South...

Pope arrives at White House

What happens to freedom of conscience, individual liberty, and free enterprise in those nations that do go along? The United Nations is set to launch its “new universal agenda” for humanity and the planet September 25, 2015. The UN’s “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” document is a blueprint to “transform our world for the better by 2030,” and yet most major media outlets in the United States refuse to report on the far reaching implications of this document. “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for...

Pope Francis plunged into a crowd of Catholic school students Wednesday morning, shaking hands and being hugged and kissed as he embarked on a whirlwind series of parades and appearances across the District, including an arrival ceremony with President Obama on the South Lawn of the White House. “What a beautiful day the Lord has made,” Obama began, in welcoming the pope, as the pontiff sat beside the lectern on the south lawn. “I believe the excitement around your visit, Holy Father, must be attributed not only to your role as pope but to your unique qualities as a person.”...

Raymond Arroyo, news anchor of the largest Catholic cable channel in the world, says that he was struck by how political Pope Francis’ talk at the White House this morning was. He said the Pope’s talk had a political edge.

Jumping into the issues of the day, Pope Francis opened his visit to the United States with a strong call Wednesday for action to combat climate change, calling it a problem that “can no longer be left to a future generation.” President Barack Obama, in turn, hailed the pontiff as a moral force who is “shaking us out of our complacency” with reminders to care for the poor and the planet. The White House mustered all the pageantry it had to offer as the pope arrived at the White House before an adoring crowd of thousands and a nation that...

Pope Francis embodies sanctity but comes trailing clouds of sanctimony. With a convert’s indiscriminate zeal, he embraces ideas impeccably fashionable, demonstrably false, and deeply reactionary. They would devastate the poor on whose behalf he purports to speak — if his policy prescriptions were not as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill.