gesture. the power, it s connecting a local church with the spiritual leader of the universal church. the reasons why people are so excited about this visit are the same reasons why people are so excited about what s about to happen, a canonization on american soil, the very first time someone another holy hero that comes from this land. and i think that s what people are yearning for and why they are going to great lengths just to get close to him, even just to wave. i mentioned this earlier, it was really important to see cret service director clancy out with the agents, with the vehicle, doing really his life s work, which was protecting presidents as recently as president obama. you see the number of people around this pope it does not remove the risk. combination of u.s. secret service and vatican security. earlier in the day, we saw some of his own personal vatican security bringing people up to
printed it out for you, cause i know how you love your cars. 1929 was the first vehicle, fiat back then. specially made. specially made for the vatican. so, this is a tradition. in fact, before that, it was horse and carriage. right. popes have always wanted to be able to see. and with this pope maria mentioned freedom as something the way people talk about him. the radical freedom of not worrying about your own life so you can be out there with the people, that that s what matters, i think that is remarkable way to understand freedom and different in the way we would define freedom here in the united states. i think it truly speaks to who he is and what he wants to do, what he wants the church to do. because we have been discussing security, pete williams ears perked up in our washington bureau, our justice correspondent, who covers security, among many other topics. and pete, in washington, of course, we have the confluence of congress, we have enormous
need the lapsed catholics and to tell gay people they can t be catholics or women married, the wrong marriage the first time and second marriage is working out well and happy with their marriage and the husband is happy and same way around with husbands and wives, i think they said, why don t you come become to church and the same with people who have had abortions. i think it s wonderful that the pope says it s a sin. we are not going to change on that. go to confession. get it behind you and rejoin us and come to communion. this is about compassion. we need it. we need it everywhere. chris, an e-mail has gone out apparently from the speaker of the house to members reminding everybody about decorum in the chamber when the pope addresses both houses. do you have any concerns along those lines? well, i don t think anyone s going to say you lie but we did i think divert from the bipartisan notions of foreign visitors with bb netanyahu.
bring incorporation into his body the church, and to give up everything to do that. he never went home again. so when pope francis talks about going out to the peripheries, fining the people who are wounded, finding the lost, finding those who haven t heard the word of god, he s thinking of people like junipero serra and he s challenging the entire catholic church to be that, to make all of these remarkable institutions platforms for the buzzword is evan gellism. we re at the spiritual heart of the pilgrimage here with pope francis an i expect his homily will reflect those themes today. you mentioned his work as a pastor. this being the modern era, the other part of his job description, no other term for it. ceo of a vast and sprawling organization. how is he doing at that role?
people, they will go through this. the catholic church isn t based on current popularity. and it s based on a phrase i used this morning may offend some people but it s too big to fail. the cardinal of washington who you know told me about three months ago that they made a point, the college of cardinals, to find a pastoral pope, someone who was going to be out there, not theologian but touch the people. and they got one. and i think that s the ability of the church to adapt to what it needs to do. they saw the weakness of benedict, the coldness of the fellow after john paul ii and you have borked at the white house, how the president refers to the pope. jimmy carter, i worked for him as a speech writer, as you know. he wouldn t call him your holiness. he called him in the second person, pope john paul ii,