Now the final event, a mass and tickets running out in seconds. What surprises are in store for the thousands of faithful gathering on the city streets . Youve seen the pontiff mingle with americas leaders. Now see him in the way hes known best the peoples pope. And there you see the scene. Thousands, tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands gathering now waiting for the popes big moment today, the huge mass begins around 4 00 this afternoon just behind me on Benjamin Franklin parkway in philadelphia. It is his final homily in the u. S. The final celebration of mass. Organizers say a many as a Million People are hoping to see and hear pope francis deliver that service that will close the festival of families. In the next hour or so the pope will begin taking an open motorcade to the mass. We of course are going to be covering all of that for you live. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and watching around the world. Im Anderson Cooper live in philadelphia. Amid all the
Prompting more people to answer his call to serve. Nightly news begins right now. Pope francis in america. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from philadelphia. Good evening. Within the next hour or so, pope francis is expected to board a plane and fly back to rome. His extraordinary sixday threecity journey to america concluding with a huge outdoor mass that wrapped up a short time ago here on Philadelphias Benjamin Franklin parkway. The pageantry of the moment in sharp contrast to a painful meeting the pope had earlier today in which he sat down with victims of sexual abuse at the hands of priests and others in positions of trust, expressing to them his pain and shame, with victims advocate groups urging the pope to follow up his kind words with action. Anne thompson starts us off tonight. Reporter philadelphia reveling in the francis effect. At the popes final day of his firstever trip to the u. S. , a mixture of the joy of faith and the still painful busin
Frequently encounters powerful resistance, you remind american democracy of the ideals for which it was founded. And that society is weakened every time that in justice might prevail. A moment ago i spoke about a trend in globalization. Globalization is not bad in itself. On the contrary. The trend to globalize is good. It unites us to what can be bad is the way to do it. If a globalization tries to make everybody even as if it was a sphere, that globalization destroys the richness and the specificities of each person and each people. If a globalization tries to unite everyone but does so respe respecting each individual, each person, each richness, each specificity, respecting each people, each richness, each wealth of each specificity, that globalization is good and it enables us to keep on growing and takes us to peace. I like to use geometry here. If globalization is a sphere where each point is equal distance from the center, it voids, it isnt good. If globalization unites, unifie