NewsOne Now panelist A. Scott Bolden explained politicians are struggling with Pope Francis’ stance on many issues regardless of party affiliation.
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For her part, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said on Thursday the pope’s speech to Congress “laid out a powerful vision of our shared humanity and responsibilities to one another”.
People waved flags and signs, and schoolchildren sang while they waited for the address to begin.
Flynn’s son Ronan, 7, was preparing to receive his First Communion, and he thought a visit to see the pope would be especially meaningful.
Once the first papal speech before Congress was over, however, they retreated to their respective partisan corners, and offered up different interpretations of the pontiff’s message.
He also addressed concerns over the environment, talking about climate change he said, “we need a conversation which includes everyone, since the environmental change we are undergoing, and its human roots, concerns and affects us all”.
“Everyone wanted to be here and everyone was thrilled to be here”, Mary Berger said.
“New York has always been a place where the American Dream has come to life for generations of immigrants from around the globe”. The united states focuses on south America, though.
Alexandra Gjurasic traveled from Tucson with her family to see the speech, after getting tickets to the event from Rep. Martha McSally, R-Tucson.
He also and spoke approvingly of public financing: “Perhaps public financing would allow for me, the citizen, to know that I’m financing each candidate with a given amount of money”.
“Because every creature, particularly a living creature, has an intrinsic value, in its existence, its life, its beauty and its interdependence with other creatures”, Pope Francis said.
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After efforts by both sides to overhaul immigration laws failed, the United States saw a flood previous year of more than 60,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America rushing to the USA border hoping to get in. For some viewers, their comments were full of less detail, and were just short and to the point, with one reading, “CROOK, CLOWN, LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
