New york city. The pope arrives in the big apple after a historic nation in the capitol and addressed the congress and met with Homeless People being assisted by Catholic Charities and had lunch with them. You are used to seeing his face by now im sure and we have the chair of the Theology Department at fortum university in new york. Its good to be with you. Ive got to ask you, i have not been privy to a lot of your thoughts over the last couple of days guess what we have enough time coming up, im going to know everything about what you are thinking about this trip by this pope. But as we take a look at the helicopters that will take the pope from john f. Kennedy International Airport to Downtown Manhattan. Manhattan heliport. Sort of walk me through the day, we can get to the last couple of days in a second, but i want you to walk me through your thoughts on this day starting with the remarks, the comments, the speech before the joint meeting of congress. Absolutely, tony. This was a
Thousands of dollars on this and, well, its what they do, monsignor. You know, monsignor franco, whos one of our guests today, he works for the holy see which is basically the liaison between the vatican and the u. S. Monsignor franco knows pope francis. You know him personally. They go way back. Yeah. 2002. 2002. So youve known him for and years. Yeah. Welcome to good day new york. Thank you for inviting me. Moment. Hey, lets look at the washington d. C. Right thousand the pope not the wax figure, but the pope himself, is on the move from his temporary residence on massachusetts avenue where the hill. Hell be addressing a joint session of congress. Therell be big tv screens outside of the Capitol Building so people can watch. Look at that, tens of thousands have showed up. Let me tell you something, he tell us about his energy, because hes 78 years old to. Its been a whirlwind in d. C. When he comes to new york city, its going to be a whirlwind. Well, first of all, i want to say to gr
Tomorrow the big mass at Madison Square garden. By the way, he doesnt get here until about 5 00 today, but streets are going to be intermittently closed starting about 10 00 this morning, and its going to get worse especially tomorrow. Our plan is to hitch a ride, and it might look Something Like this. Welcome to the popemobile. Pope francis . Hi, holy father. This is from madam due codes, the great wax museum on 42nd street. This thing im sorry the statue, this figure the replica of the pope is magnificent. The detail do you think were ever going to get up close and personal to the holy father youll be tackled. Wow. It would be amazing. Can you take a look at the face . Go ahead. No, its so life like. Even the shape. Are we allowed to touch . I heene, i know the ring, weve got to kiss the ring, but are we allowed to go for it. What does it feel like . Nice. I feel like that might be sack religious. Tickets to the mass tomorrow, three of them. The sacreligious part would be scalping th
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