america and he has an action packed day. he starts off at the white house with a welcome ceremony and bishops, and he comes to the basilica behind me for the canonization ceremony, for junipero serra. there was a papal press conference on the way from cuba to the united states. we were asking the pope about what is he going to say on his speech before congress the much anticipated speech before congress. he said the embargo will not be mentioned, but he did say that perhaps he might speak about bilateral and multi-lateral relations agreements and how they are a seen of progress and co-existence as for what he actually is going to say, well, we re going to have to wait until thursday to find out.
francis waking up in the united states for the very first time. this is his first trip to america. he s got an action packed day. he starts off at the white house with a welcome ceremony. he meets the bishops and comes to the basilica behind me for the canonization ceremony of junipero serra. he is the first american to be canonized. i have been like in on the papal plane. there was a papal plane press conference on the way from cuba to the you can see where we were asking the pope about what is he going to stay on his speech before congress. the much anticipated speech before congress, he said the embargo will not be mentioned. he did say that perhaps he might speak about bilateral and multilateral relation agreements and how they are a sign of progress and co-existence as for what he is actually going to say? well, we will have to wait until
president, the first lady will have the welcoming ceremony on the south lawn. that s really event number one officially on wednesday. that s after the president meets the pope and greets him at the military base outside of washington, the air base outside of washington, d.c. later in the day, this is the canonization ceremony for somewhat of a controversial figure. that will take place in the afternoon. that s pretty much what happens on wind. but on thursday, things really go into overdrive. the man is 78 years old. this is a packed schedule. morning washington, d.c., later in the afternoon in new york city. in the morning in washington, d.c., this is going to be history. no pope has ever addressed congress. no pope has ever addressed a joint session of congress. this is something speaker boehner has wanted to do for years and has talked about it. finally it s about to happen. that will be thursday morning in washington. then he ll make the trip up to new york city. and this is a pack
these stereo typical conventional left/right things. he wants us to get beyond that and i think he helped do that yesterday. as we hear the traffic noise behind you guys, ann thompson, talk to us about the moment when we saw a little bit of picture we ll show a little more, of pope francis in the pope mobile going through the crowds and as you reported yesterday, actually got stopped by the crowd and had to make a u-turn. how did he get back into the vatican? he got andrea, he got in a car. what happened was and this is unusual apparently the first time it s happened during a canonization ceremony. instead of going around st. peters square in the pope mobile he went down where most of the people were yesterday. and he greeted people and then he got to the end and they didn t know what to do.
for the catholic church. george, this is also the first time two living popes attended a canonization ceremony so how significant is that? well, frances, let s underscore there s only one pope in the church at a time. opponent is the pope. his predecessor benedict xvi is pope emeritus. what their presence together meant plus this canonization of two men whose lives span a period from 1881 to 2005 between john xxiii and john paul ii means that an awful lot of the modern history of the catholic church was being pondered, preyed upon and celebrated here at st. peter s this morning. john paul ii and john xxiii are the two book ends of the second vatican council as father barron just said and this ceremony today reminded the church that