Pope Francis is coming to Philadelphia – but where else will he visit?

[hrmjustin]

David Gibson

(RNS) It’s been the worst-kept secret in Christendom, but this week Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput gave the strongest indication yet that Pope Francis will visit Philadelphia next year.

“Pope Francis has told me that he is coming,” Chaput said Thursday (July 25) before delivering a homily at a Mass in Fargo, N.D.

Chaput, a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi tribe, was in Fargo for a conference on Native Americans and invited his fellow Native Americans to the Eighth World Meeting of Families, set to take place in Philadelphia from Sept. 22-27, 2015.

“The pope will be with us the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of that week,” Chaput said, according to Catholic News Service. That would be Sept. 25-27.

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/07/25/pope-francis-coming-philadelphia-else-will-visit/

[okasha]

1. That's wonderful.

Most of the members of the Northern Plains nations who are Christian are either Catholic or Episcopalian. And a good many practice the Traditional faiths alongside their Christianity.

There's an opportunity in this visit for a whole different kind of ecumenical council.