Threecity tour of the United States in the cradle of american democracy, philadelphia. Today he delivered a speech from independence hall, the building where both the declaration of independence and the u. S. Constitution were signed. The holy father spoke from the same simple wooden lectern that president Abraham Lincoln used when he delivered the gettysburg address nearly 152 years ago. Pope francis addressed two issues that have been widely discussed by americans in recent months, religious liberty and immigration. Allen pizzey is traveling with the pope. Reporter at his request, pope francis took time out to be a tourist today, doing passes by the statue of liberty on his way the take the plane to philadelphia. The final two days of the popes visit are a celebration of families, the official reason for the trip dugged pilgrimage of mercy. Francis underlined that by getting out of his fiat to embrace tenyearold michael keating. By definition this stop is about meeting the people, no