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Privilege to welcome you to the united states of america. [ applause ] today we mark many firsts. your holiness, you have been celebrated as the first pope from the americas. [ applause ] this is your first visit to the united states. [ applause ] and you are also the first pontiff to share an encyclical through a twitter account. your visit not only allows us to reciprocate the extraordinary hospitality you extended to me at the vatican last year, it ....
When we talk about the poor, he s out there actually inviting poor men to his birthday dinner or making sure that we have showers at the vatican or going to an island where refugees are struggling to find but even on the issue of homosexuality, let s face it, pope benedict talked about an intrinsic mental disorder. this pope says who am i to judge? there are huge differences. this pope is a pastor. but it s a difference in approach, exactly. welcome. who am i to judge? but actually you re the pope of a church which does judge. but even that is up for potential discussion in this synod. we don t know. just a clarification, too. it s not the phrase it s a mental disorder, it s a disorder. and the problem is it s a theological term. it refers to theological order of nature or whatever. i know i m splitting hairs. but because the word disorder tends to go to that order of mental disorder, and it s a ....
John you spend a lot of time in washington d.c. but this visit is unlike any we ve previously seen. and you make an important point. for those of us who s first inni instinct to get immediately into the politics i think we should sit back and enjoy the drama. and i love the fiat. the statement the holy father is making just by getting into a modest fiat speaks volumes as to the message he wants to convey and he does this of course as he travels the world and as he travels the grounds of the vatican. as we await this moment though we are of course at the dawn of the presidential campaign. perhaps deeper into it than we should be this early on. let s bring in the cnn commentators. maria, i want to start with you. this is his first visit to the united states. he is the first pope from latin america. yes. what do you make of the ....
Catholic church or seen outside until recently. although, delia gallagher, critics of the president have said, you know, if the king of saudi arabia came, do they invite critics of the saudi regime to, you know, to a south lawn ceremony? well, i think, you know, the vatican is sensitive to the fact that somebody might try to use the pope. i mean, it just happened in italy before this trip that a woman who wrote children s books about gender and so on sent them to the vatican, sent them to the pope, received a standard letter back and then said, oh, look, you know, the pope likes my books. so there s that side of it. but on the other hand, let s say that, you know, it s beneath the vatican to try and censor a guest list. as the bishop said, they re quite aware that pope francis wants to meet anybody and everybody, and i don t think they d want to make too much of a stink about a guest list at the white house, although anybody can say, you know, it just takes one vatican official to ....
Ou off piece talking about climate. he took the name francis. it is the patron sane ofint of ecology and animals. and there is a massive meeting in december widely seen as the last serious chance by world leaders to get some kind of climate deal that will hold or reverse the current, you know, move towards global warming and all the uncertainties. and i was speaking to archbishop arzo who is the vatican ambassador to the united nations and he said look, we re not democrat or republican. we re talking about b a biblical issues. and let s face it. climate was in genesis way before any of us here were talking about it. and this pope has been very critical of world leaders. he talked about their cowardice for not what he termed as defending the earth from exploitation. he s been very out in front on this. and most likely will speak about in this morning. he s at his prophetic best when he often challenges ....