inmates from a correctal facility. good to have you with us this morning. john, start with you. there were so many who expected we would hear from the pope during that joint session, maybe someone would perceive as the more critical elements of his visit. i want to put up on the screen something he said in 2014 about incarceration and the abolishment of the death penalty, quote, all of its forms. he said in the penal code of the vatican the sanction of the life sentence is no more. should we expect something more critical than the message that most are expecting today? well, when the pope holds these meetings with the inmates, i mean, these are not policy talks. these are the pope acting as a pastor. you heard rosa talk about that
seminary in about two hours. followed by what could be one of the most memorable moments of his trip here to the united states, a meeting with about a hundred inmates from a correctal facility on the outskirts of philadelphia. the pope still basking in love and warmth of that speech that stirred the crowd last night at the festival of families. he threw aside his script and just spoke from the heart. and with it, a bit of humor as well, which was nice to see. yeah. big hardy laughs from the pope last night. miguel marquez joins us from the ben franklin parkway. i was about to ask about people lining up already and there they are behind you. reporter: this is called a whirlwind but it is not that. it is a psatsunami. he is taking this crowd by storm. it is nine hours, you guys royal-of-realize? nine hours from erie,
be here for six to 12 months tops. so i think that takes on a different dynamic when you have somebody like paul who is 12 years old who already knows, recognizes the fact that he is essentially going to have to grow up, go through puberty and adolescence in a correctal facility. i have to say that in those particular cases, the juvenile facility is the one best prepared to help him through that type of growth. it s for precisely these reasons that paul and his lawyerer, monica foster, continue to fight to keep him in the system. we re trying to go to indiana supreme court to get appeals i can get waived down to juvenile again, help me change my sentence. sentenced as an adult, but held at pendleton juvenile, paul is stuck in a type of legal limbo. this is the first kid we ve ever had who is a legal adult in a juvenile facility. so we re learning as we go, because we ve never had to deal with this and what his situation