We are live here at the Woodrow Wilson center in washington, d. C. Today, look at the popes visit to the u. S. This september. Pope francis we stopping in washington, new york city and philadelphia. A National Press foundation bring together reporters who cover religion and they will talk about ideas for coverage of pope francis first trip to the United States. Some issues expect to be discussed today and some issues expect the pope to address while in the u. S. Poverty hunger, immigration, the environment and more. Live coverage here on cspan2. Id like to take just a minute to thank the sponsors for this event, the u. N. Foundation and the Aarp Foundation and to meet some other folks later on. With that i would turn it over to linda. Thank you sandy. We will move right into logistic. Im going to introduce helen osman, secretary of to make a shift of u. S. Catholic conference of bishops. She is coordinating Media Coverage around the visit pope francis next month which, of course, why were only. Shes been with us since 2007 and has been a major player in bring the church into the digital and social media age. And when to the Catholic Press association honored her with the st. Francis award for personal achievement and but happy to have her join us today. Thanks, linda. I appreciate you all being willing to work with a Getting Started on time. I have a meeting that mandatory for me answer my colleagues to the at, at 10 00 or so i have a few slides im going to breeze through them but i like to give us more time for yall to ask questions, if thats okay with everyone. Of a public over this morning very quickly a little bit of whats different from previous papal visitor i was in the same role in 2000 it went Pope Benedict came and work with colleagues and to work with colleagues were at the conference for the previous visits to the poker a little bit about credentialing, social media, the senate under the resources we are offering two journalists. 50,000 level view of the whole schedule for pope francis and then what specific were doing at the conference in reaching out to the general public. Level of interest is one aspect. With a great deal of interest in 2008, but i dont like to use the purpose but this is unprecedented we close the credentialing on friday. We have over 7000 applications from individuals and probably about 600 outlets that have asked for space at the venues. Where pope francis will appear. He intends to speak quite often first in spanish, then alternate, have an english translator available to them. People go back and forth so that will be something new for us. Social media in 2008 remember it wasnt just be giving. We had long conversations over whether we would credential bloggers or not. Wont even bother pashtun yes we are credentialing everybody this go around. Again, just the whole media landscape has changed dramatically in the past seven years. Mobile devices, Live Streaming et cetera. Support other like to emphasize is the bottom line. When we started planning with the vatican which action was back in january of this year from the very beginning every time i would ask the question are these events open to the media, the answer was yes absolutely, yes, absolutely. We would like to see it available around the world. So weve been working with the networks on pooled coverage, at least tv Pool Coverage of every event. As i mentioned we close the credentialing on friday. This is only for the venues for which the church has responsibility. That means we are not credentialing for the white house. Congress and United Nations. Let me repeat that. We are not credentialing for the white house United Nations or congress, but everything else. We anticipate that we will try to be engaging in conversations in social media both in spanish and in english. Weve already asked folks to start using the hashtag and hoping you us. We are working with the pool the tv pool so that we can have simultaneous translation when he is speaking in either spanish or english for events again at this point we havent built into details of reaching out to the white house or Congress Going to you is already planning simultaneous translations. We will have a Filing Center in the city and otb those addresses in the next slide and lend has graciously offered to distribute this view also you of those. At each of the five centers we will have a live video feed from the tv book we will have copies of the speeches. Bob and i were were talking about that. Ive asked we have those in english and in spanish. They are unaware of the need to have them as soon as possible lease on the day up. The holy father does take great personal interest in his text i understand, and often revises sometimes revises contemporaneous as you speaking suggest an alert to everyone on the. Will have an interview desk if folks want to indicate of the people. The holy father is not entertain requests for individual interviews. If you are on the plane with him, and that is already been determined the media that have been given that privilege, and, of course, he doesnt do those on plane, interviews with a group of thats the only time where he will entertain interviews a will have a cadre of lots of other folks for you to talk with. Also different this trip from other trips by popes to the u. S. Every day will have a briefing and a Filing Center from the press officer or his holiness the weve used the Filing Center as a transport center to bring the media who have received assignments to the venue, received credentials for the venue, using that to bring you in on buses to work with the secret service and other agencies so to get where youre supposed to be and make sure all those places get filled. Because extremely high demand for those. So we have remember the two Marriott Marquis is, i know its hard to see on the screen but in washington its been Marriott Marquis downtown, new york been Marriott Marquis times square. Philadelphia it is an area associate with the Convention Center, and actually the Convention Center hall a is where we will be running if i send you just think marriott and easy to remember on that. You will need a usccb secret service credential to go into the Filing Center. And let me just run very quickly to schedule, most of you probably are unaware but he is coming in from cuba on tuesday evening september 22 i believe and we will have a briefing that they actually immediately after he arrived with father lombardi at the Filing Center. The next morning he goes to the white house. Again white house credentials for that immediately following that he goes to st. Matthews cathedral and as midday prayer with the bishops. Its not a mass but it is official part of the church and he will have some remarks of their in spanish. Following that in the afternoon were over at the campus of Catholic University of america and the basilica, National Shrine of immaculate conception. And and he will celebrate mass there. I think the number is about 22000 right now anticipated to be there. And you also officially recognize as a saint in the church. In other words, there will be a mass of canonization. Thursday visits congress. Immediate after that he will go over to Saint Patricks in the city where theres a Catholic Charity center and meet with about 200 of the clients folks who use Catholic Charity service. Again he will speak in spanish with those individuals. Vatican believes jfk go to newark, still not done for the day. He visits his second st. Patricks of the day st. Patricks cathedral for the archdiocese of new york where he will have evening prayer with folks there. Friday morning hes over at the United Nations. Again, those of you human credential to after that he goes to ground zero what he has to movement. Evil meet with individuals who were effected immediately by the events of 9 11 family members First Responders et cetera on the outside around the two pools to think he will go inside and will be an event being called multireligious event with i think about 700 faith, religious leaders. After that he goes up to peace to harlem to a school that serves immigrant families, and another Catholic Charities centered and then that evening he has mass at Madison Square garden. Next morning he gets up goes to philadelphia, has mass at the cathedral their with the faithful of philadelphia archdiocese. He is greeted by seminarians at st. Charles seminary which is where he will be in residence those of todays. Vatican and he goes down to Independence Hall and will have an address on religious freedom. And that afternoon he joins the festival families which is a multievent, celebration, music presentations. You will be there for about 90 minutes but the actual festival i think is about four hours on the Benjamin Franklin parkway in philadelphia. The next morning he meets at the center with bishops who have been attending all week accounting for families, the world meeting of families in philadelphia that also is part of the festival of families. Goes from there over to sorry, i just a blank on the name. Prison in philadelphia. Will meet with a group of about 100 who are incarcerated there, most likely younger people. Again, will be speaking in spanish and english there. And then large mass, huge mass enormous mass on the Benjamin Franklin parkway. We met up to 2 Million People who want to participate in that. And then he goes back out and wheels up about 8 00 sunday night. Been also just very quickly a little bit of what we are doing. The usccb is launching a mobile solution. I going to put a date they will be in the apple stores is august 15 called Catholic Church, we think. But we will be writing like skinny on that of all of the events. We want to encourage people to watch parties i think everyone including all of you in the romance stories about people really want to cater to see pope francis, and we recognize the intensity of interest so what we are encouraging parishes and schools and ics to do is think about having watch parties locally for those who cant journey here. Virtual pilgrimage if you want to call it that. Our website is intended to also be a place where people can catch the live stream and other information we will have quasipatch word protection and that board, journalist resources were developing now actually. So again if you want to write down anything you as people visit. Org would be to go to site for media pashtun people visited egypt logistical questions for me hope logistics at gmail. Com is our preferred email i know your mind which is fine but if you send you this one that means is that going to get lost in all the other stuff that i have going on. So that like us it is a quick flight suit or i would ask if anyone has any specific questions or anything else . Yes. [inaudible] yes. We do if you go into u. S. People visit. Org, scroll down on i think is on the bottom of the homepage theres a link there to the secret Services Website which is where you go to get the credential. Soundex bahrke were hoping to get other experts. Again we are compiling all of that so yes. Yes, those kind of folks. Yes, sir. Did you have great. Sorry. For the st. Matthews cathedral event can you give us any sense of how much press will be allowed in there or is it going to be who else is going to be in there besides bishops . Yes. Its not a large area as you probably know. And i dont know the full guest list, but it will be limited access for meeting inside, and were working on risers on the outside as well but it would be limited. Yes, sir. Hi, good morning. Is this the same one from friday . [inaudible] spin you can still get into the websites. Websitespent for the Filing Center speak was yes, for the filing said the we close on the venue so and the second question is the Daily Briefing is going to be webcast speak with despicable on the live stream. But in order to watch it it will be passwordprotected . No, it will be public. It will be part of the pool. Does that make sense . So we will feed the live briefings into what is provided to the ust people. Okay. It would be like. Yes. If we applied for the venue, will they get the secret Service Credentials are doing it to do that separately speak with no. The secret service credential you would use that to access the venue. Spent okay but if we have done that already, i can apply for a venue, then do we also and we want to go to suffice it to come do we need a separate it all works and works across all three cities. So if we have applied already by the first deadline you are good. Cant guarantee youll get into venues you want a judge or credential. They are running those do the background checks now. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you. Now im going to introduce william douglas, Congressional Correspondent from mcclatchy newspapers. He has reporting experience in nuke city schools, bill clintons second president ial term. Now is covering congress and the president ial elections for mcclatchy. Bill has poached for getting a good story from the popes visit from capitol hill. Good morning and thank you very much for having me. Thank you all for geneva i look out and see some familiar faces on capitol hill. I can speak from the capital perspective of the popes speech to congress. This will be very very different. If i had to describe the significance or importance of the speech this is going to be like a state of the king or head of on steroids in terms of demand for media in terms of demand for members of congress to actually be in the chamber for the popes speech. Congress people can claim congress doesnt do a lot of things that i think last week they managed to vote exmembers of congress out of the chamber. They will not be allowed in for the speech because probably all the seats will be filled with members of the house and senate. They normally when heads of state visit even with my mr. Netanyahu speech a couple of months ago you have what they call fillers. Staff members or interns filling seats. But that will not happen this time around. I doubt there will be a member of congress who would not want to skip this. For our selfless purposes in terms of covering this, this is going to be a challenge for reporters who want to cover the speech. Again going back to state of the Union Address we are going back to a regular i hate to say normal head of state, but a regular head of state for lack of a better term. We normally will go to the house or Senate Press Gallery, said he would like to be in the chamber or at least be in the gallery to file, and they are usually very very accommodating to this timer is going to be more public it because they perhaps, a, not just us, us being the congressional everyday u. S. Press but the foreign press. They will have to find a room for the popes traveling press picks it is going to be very very tight in the House Press Gallery which is already a tight space as it is now. If you are not, well, if youre not credentialed reporter to capitol hill that is if you deny the congressional hardpacked do not get in the u. S. Capitol that day. They are not going to honor passes or the little sticker things you can do. Thats not going to work. Even with the hard task theres no guarantee that youre going to get into the chamber. If you havent made a request i would suggest you do so today. They still havent gone through how theyre going to do this but its going to be very, very limited. As people they dont know there are x number of seats in the press gallery inside the chamber, and, of course, the Wire Services have their seats and then some of the other sort of longtime capitol hill publications and those day to day will more than likely get in. Those who are occasional visitors to capitol hill even with a hard pass theres no guarantee they are going to get him. That would mean maybe some colleagues who might visit from time to time. If you feel youre not a routine our regular visitor on capitol hill and you want to be in the chamber, i would suggest you start either calling the galleries are coming up with a plan be relatively fast because its going to be very, very, very tight. The pope speaks at 10 00 probably. So that means they will have to get in the building early. Its advice you probably go through the house and Senate Office buildings as opposed to trying to get into the capital. Because as you know when he goes to the capital youve got to go through the security and there will be lined. So its best to go to the Office Buildings. I would say my general of fun, and im paranoid, for addresses i tend to get there an hour or two early just to give myself time to go through security and get set up. I would advise you all to do that, maybe even a little bit earlier. There are nice cafeterias in the building. You can bide your time. But just avoid the house because they would more people and security, there was much, much more thorough probably than they are, and they are pretty thorough another table take it to another level when the pope arrives. Give yourself time to get there. Bring what you need to bring. That will also help with the security. Dont bring any extraneous stuff. Dont bring your gym