PHILADELPHIA (PA)
New York Times
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
SEPT. 27, 2015
The American marathon is nearing its end.
Pope Francis on Sunday has one day left on a journey that began in Cuba on Sept. 19 and took him to Washington, New York and Philadelphia, his 10th foreign trip as pontiff and the first to this country. He will spend it with bishops, prison inmates and hundreds of thousands of followers attending a final Mass.
The trip has been rich with weighty speeches, encounters with world leaders, and kissed babies — a hallmark of this pontiff, who readily receives little ones passed to his open-sided popemobile by security officials.
In the morning, Francis will stop by St. Charles Borromeo Seminary to meet with bishops who had come to the city for the World Meeting of Families, a Vatican-sponsored festival that drew 18,000 people, organizers said. His comments are likely to focus on the nature of family in a modern secular society — a frequent theme of the visit, along with immigration, religious freedom and social justice.
He will then head to the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, mainly an intake jail, which has roughly 2,800 inmates and is one of six jails in Philadelphia’s system. Some of the inmates have made Francis a hand-carved chair.
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