BBC NewsPope Francis is due to become the first ever pontiff to speak before the US Congress, lawmakers in Washington have announced.
The head of the Catholic Church will make his speech on 24 September.
“That day his holiness will be the first pope in our history to address a joint session of Congress,” said House Speaker John Boehner.
“I am very much looking forward to welcoming Pope Francis to the United States,” said President Barack Obama.
Around one in three members of Congress are Catholic, as are both the House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, and Republican Mr Boehner.
“We’re humbled that the Holy Father has accepted our invitation and certainly look forward to receiving his message on behalf of the American people,” said Mr Boehner.
The trip is expected to include a White House meeting with President Obama.
In addition the Pope is due to make a speech to the United Nations in New York and attend a Catholic rally in Philadelphia.
Deep divisions
Pope Francis has not refrained from airing his political views since being elected head of the Catholic Church in March 2013.
He has made support for immigrants a key plank of papal policy.
But he has also taken a traditionally Catholic line on contraception and abortion.
His views may put him at odds with members of Congress, which is riven by deep political divisions on these and other issues.
The first Pope to visit the US was Paul VI during a 1965 trip at the height of the Vietnam War.
Between “pope” and “nutanyahu” what could go wrong? If that doesn’t tell you who runs Amerika nothing will.
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“We’re humbled that the Holy Father has accepted our invitation and certainly look forward to receiving his message on behalf of the American people,” said Mr Boehner.”
After which, he’ll be given the key to Boys Town (AND a ‘special’ tour), er , I mean the city.
Yes #1, I hate to be cynical but, at this point in my life, I’ve realized that everything we’ve been taught about history is a fairy tale and the Pope is nothing more pedophile using his “throne” to exploit millions of Catholics world wide out of as much of their money as he can under the guise of faith. Now, he’s going to address congress with what purpose? Our “real life” soap opera, “As the World Spins” will continue right after their the “Pedophile Protecting Poop’s” speech has concluded. (That was an intentional misspelling)
I even had to learn Latin as an altar boy, Millard.
Still using a dead language (so no one can understand a single thing they say) should have been my first clue.
“Francis” is NOT Catholic, not even a dully ordained priest, he is an usurper. These are not men of the One True Catholic Church which is the only one that has Apostolic succession, the modern chuch of Rome does not have the Apostolic succession. Wake up and see the deception, hard to believe intelligent men on this board are so narrow minded when it comes to the conspiracy that has dethroned the once holy roman church, but claim to know all the others conspiracies.The Roman Catholic Church still exists as it always did without the pedophiles, socialists, etc. “Francis” is not the head, never was, never can be. If you fell away from your faith you never really knew it in the first place. The truth will set you free. The communist infiltration of the Catholic Church started in 1934 with the Commies placing homo’s in the seminaries for the planned destruction. The Catholic Church was the one enemy that had to be defeated before a new world order could proceed. Satan has gained a stronghold over this world because of the inability of good men to truly see what has transpired during the last 80 years and the destruction of the one religion founded by Jesus Christ.
“Wake up and see the deception, hard to believe intelligent men on this board are so narrow minded when it comes to the conspiracy that has dethroned the once holy roman church, but claim to know all the others conspiracies.The Roman Catholic Church still exists as it always did without the pedophiles, socialists, etc….”
You are the one who is deceived. The Catholic church has NEVER been a true Christian institution.
You need to do your research before commenting on this site.
Let’s see here Badger, you are either in full denial or suffer from “repressed memory syndrome” from your own abuse as an alter boy.
“Apostolic succession,” is not in the textus receptus (K J V BIBLE)NOR IS IT IMPLIED!!! JEWS STARTED AND MAINTAIN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. THE JEWISH CHURCH WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR CIVIL WAR!! SEE “JEW WATCH.COM”
At least you’ve done your homework, leo.
A+
LOL…..you haven’t done half the homework
Prove it, @sswipe.
Or STFU.
Your lack of intelligence shines through #1, too bad you can only spout half researched propaganda…if you think your so smart prove me wrong….otherwise it is time for you to quit your bullying and be a man….so your strength is name calling…that will do you good in the fox hole.
F%&king moron, I just DID prove you wrong. Disprove ANYTHING in the video I posted above.
Otherwise STFU.
We’re done here, clownboy. Don’t EVER talk to me again UNLESS you can back up that big mouth of yours with PROOF.
idiot
Good choice…King James a well known homosexual.
Oh, so that explains the institutionalized homosexuality and pedophilia that remains so rampant in today’s Catholic church.
the pedo’s are rampant just as much in the Lutheran church so why are you such a bigot?
Birds of a feather flock together so, here is your proof of King James being a HOMO…….maybe you just like being in the homo’s nest there #1
King James’ favorite male lovers were the Earl of Somerset and the Duke of Buckingham.
– Ben Edward Akerly, The X-rated Bible
James’s sexual orientation was so widely known that Sir Walter Raleigh joked about it in public saying “King Elizabeth” had been succeeded by “Queen James.”
– Catherine D. Bowen, The Lion and the Throne
King James 1 was a known homosexual who murdered his young lovers and victimized countless heretics and women. His cruelty was justified by his “divine right” of kings.
– Otto J. Scott, James the First
Although the title page of The King James Bible boasted that it was “newly translated out of the original tongues,” the work was actually a revision of The Bishop’s Bible of 1568, which was a revision of The Great Bible of 1539, which was itself based on three previous English translations from the early 1500s. So, the men who produced the King James Bible not only inherited some of the errors made by previous English translators, but invented some of their own.
Desiderius Erasmus was a “Christian humanist” who collected Greek (and Latin) New Testament manuscripts and compared and edited them, verse by verse, selecting what he considered to be the best variant passages, until he had compiled what came to be known as the “textus receptus.” Early English translations of the Bible, like those mentioned above, were based on his “textus receptus.” Erasmus was also a monk whom some historians believe engaged in homosexual activities.
But without both King James and Erasmus, the most widely touted Bible in Christian history would never have been produced, the KJV (or shall we say, Gay-JV?) Bible.
– Skip Church
A physical weakling, as an adolescent James had shown himself to be a coward, who liked only to hunt, to read (which he did, prodigiously) and to talk. To protect himself he wore thick quilted doublets, so padded that they provided a kind of armor against any assassin who might attack him with a knife. When he revealed a sexual preference for men, falling in love with his cousin Esmé Stewart and elevating him to a position of authority on the royal council, some of his nobles kidnapped James and held him captive, banishing Stewart and controlling James’s every move. After nearly a year James escaped, but continued to resent his jailers; after he began to rule on his own behalf, at seventeen, he made it a priority to bring the turbulent Scots nobles under control.
As he aged James indulged his preference for handsome men, living apart from his wife. His doting fondness was part paternal, part erotic; he called his favorite George Villiers “sweet child and wife” and referred to himself as “your dear dad and husband.” But to his courtiers, the sight of the aging, paunchy, balding monarch, who according to one court observer had a tendency to drool, leaning on his paramours was utterly repellant.
The first of the king’s minions was Robert Carr, Groom of the Bedchamber, who the king elevated to earl of Somerset and appointed Lord Chamberlain. After six years of favors and royal gifts Carr was brought low, accused of murder and sent away from court. The second and greatest royal favorite, the extraordinarily handsome George Villiers, rose from cupbearer to Gentleman of the Bedchamber and ultimately to Earl of Buckingham.
“I love the Earl of Buckingham more than anyone else,” James announced to his councilors, “and more than you who are here assembled.” He compared his love for the earl to Jesus’s affection for the “beloved disciple” John. “Jesus Christ did the same,” the king said, “and therefore I cannot be blamed. Christ had his John, and I have my George.”
With such pronouncements King James seemed to reach a new level of outrage, especially when he compounded his offense, in the view of many, by heaping Buckingham with costly jewels, lands, and lucrative offices.
-Royal Panoply, Brief Lives Of The English Monarchs
Carrolly Erickson, History Book Club