WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local: 12:10 p.m. President Barack Obama has given Pope Francis gifts symbolizing peace and service to the needy. Gift exchanges are customary between U.S. officials and foreign dignitaries. Obama gave Francis a sculpture of an ascending dove that incorporates […]
Rev. Al Sharpton talks about the importance of Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. “In the contrast of all this Islamphobia, the Pope made his first step in America, going to Cuba. He reached out across religion that moral leadership is based on when you can reach beyond limitations and can bring people together. […]
Roland Martin talks to Father George Clements about the importance of Pope Francis’ visit to the United States and what other black Catholics hope to gain from his time here. “What we have to understand is the word Catholic means everybody. It’s universal. It means to us that the leader of our religion is here […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The pope of the poor, Pope Francis, arrived for his first-ever visit to the world’s wealthiest superpower Tuesday denying he is a leftist and riding in a frugal little family car, windows rolled down. A chartered plane from Cuba touched down at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where President Barack Obama […]
HAVANA (AP) — Pope Francis met with Fidel Castro on Sunday after urging tens of thousands of Cubans to serve one another and not an ideology, delivering a subtle jab at the communist system during a Mass celebrated under the gaze of an image of Che Guevara in Havana’s iconic Plaza of the Revolution. The […]
President Barack Obama is the man Americans say they admire most, while Hillary Clinton is the woman living anywhere in the world whom they admire…
President Barack Obama is the man Americans say they admire most, while Hillary Clinton is the woman living anywhere in the world whom they admire…
Pope Francis says his plan to meet with a group of sex abuse victims is part of an effort to “go forward” with “zero tolerance” in confronting and preventing clergy abuse. But the head of a U.S. victims’ group has dismissed the upcoming session as “another gesture, another public relations coup” that could prove meaningless. […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, marking Palm Sunday in a packed St. Peter’s Square, ignored his prepared homily and spoke entirely off-the-cuff in a remarkable departure from practice. Later, he continued to stray from the script by hopping off his popemobile to pose for “selfies” with young people and also sipping tea passed to […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama is holding an historic first meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Obama arrived on an overcast morning at the Vatican’s ornate grounds. After a slow procession, he was introduced to Pope Francis and the two shook hands. Obama says at the start of the meeting that it’s […]
BERLIN (AP) — The drug haul was unremarkable, but the destination raised eyebrows. German customs officials intercepted a shipment of cocaine destined for the Vatican in January, weekly Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday. Officers at Leipzig airport found 340 grams (12 ounces) of the drug packed into 14 condoms inside a shipment of cushions coming […]
03/04/14- Tom and the crew open the show talking about Mardi Gras, Barkhad Abdi’s budding career, Pope Francis dropping the F-bomb and one Kenyan pastor’s strange request for female members of his congregation.
