in a few weeks pope francis will speak before a joint session of congress and don't think he will not bring up immigration reform because he certainly will. cnn religious commentator father edward beck joins me now to talk about that. so i don't think the pope will specifically bring up legislation, but he will say something about immigration to our lawmakers here in the united states. what might that be? >> well, what he said yesterday at the vatican about this refugee crisis is you can't tell someone have courage, hang in there, and not do anything to meet their needs. that's why he's calling on these parishes to actually take in refugees. what he's saying i think is you can't spiritualize all of this. in the letter of james it says you can't see someone hungry and say, well, keep warm and well fed and not immediate their bodily needs. he's talking about proktcle association with faith and action. so i think when he comes here, he's going to say what are you willing to do with the immigrants you have? are you willing to give them path to citizenship? and what are you going to do to even allow more immigrants to come in?