Pope Francis attended a February 11 meeting of priests in the basilica of St. John Lateran, and heard the confessions of several priests.
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Olga Estrada, 52, came two hours by bus from Puebla to Mexico City.
In an interview with Fox Business Network, Trump was asked about Pope Francis’ visit to Mexico, where he intends pray with undocumented immigrants and immigration activists and celebrate Mass along the U.S.-Mexico.
Meantime, Protestantism in Mexico is growing, including in the country’s south and in heavily indigenous states like Chiapas, where Pope Francis will head after Mexico City. A large contingent also came from the United States.
Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said the Pope wants to visit parts of Mexico a Pontiff had not visited before, and that the Mass in Ciudad Juarez “is a symbol of his concern for migrants”.
US Presidential candidate, Donald Trump has lashed out at Pope Francis over a proposed Mexican trip. “I think that the Pope is a very political person”.
The pope’s Mass in the border city, where he will also meet workers and visit a prison, “will be extremely powerful” and could affect American politics, according to O’Brien.
“I’d say, ‘ISIS wants to get you, ‘” Trump said, “You know that ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican?”
More than 100,000 people have been killed in Mexico’s drug wars over the last decade and its reputation was battered by the case of 43 students abducted and apparently massacred in 2014.
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“His presence will bring out the best of us; Mexico’s excited and all people in Mexico are rejoicing for his presence”, said Pimentel, who will be on the border for the papal Mass. “I think that it’s a great moment of love and excitement, just by the fact that he’s coming”.
