and his energy and encouragement, father. yes. you know, my favorite memory was actually on wednesday morning, i had the good fortune of being on the south lawn of the white house. i was seated right behind the choir from st. agustine s. they had emotion in their eyes. some turned to them and said, did it feel like you were singing to god? they said, we were. the pope has brought us all closer to god. even nonbelievers on the balcony of the capitol, he said, i ask you to pray for me and if you don t believe in god, wish me well. so he brought us closer, brought us out of ourselves. brought us closer to god and reminded us where we all come from. humble is a word many of you, our viewers, have used to describe this pope. this is a pope you ll remember as jorge bergoglio who took the
faith and experience of sack mental grace but this must in the lead us to disregard the unprecedented changes taking place in society. and we are seeing this take place in the cultural and social effects on family bonds. these changes affect us all whether believers or non-believers. christians are not immune to the changes of their times. this concrete world with its many problems and possibilities is where we must live, believe and proclaim. until recently, we lived in a
and bishops and the like and he will be having a you can call it a private service, if you will, for them for those that follow the catholic faith so intently. it is being called an address of family. bishops, 150 seminarians. it will be in a chapel. he s going to make his remarks in spanish, everyone. perhaps we will have an english translation as we ve been doing for you on msnbc, but talk about the significance of this, will you, bishop? it s probably went to inspire those who are working or the catholic church. quite right. he s operating on a different level on this trip. in some setting he s doing high octane catholicism, so the full thing. with other audiences, think of the united nations, think of the congress, he s addressing a much more mixed audience or these grand crowds here, catholics, noncatholics, believers, nonbelievers. the pope uses different type of rhetoric in these different environments. i think you re right, in this talk he s going to try to fire
energy that you are seeing out there even from the 78-year-old man. you know, the difference is that, you know, francis is a reformer who is sending a different sort of message. and odd sentence popped into my head this morning that he preaches without being preachy. he goes to where people are, and the last thing is inspired by a hallway conversation that i had with a colleague at msnbc who is not catholic who said to her son, you know, this pope s embrace is wide and unconditional, and that is why he has real reach. not only to the catholics, and not only to the christians, bow to nonchristians, and nonbelievers. i have been hearing a lot from the nonbeliever friends over the last few days about how attractive they find francis. and you know, interestingly, e.j., my executive producer popped into my ear and said what
reporter: pope francis is the holy father to catholics. a charismatic figure to other faiths. and nonbelievers alike. and a humble man with a powerful voice. god bless america. that was nbc s tom brokaw reporting. and republicans reacting to the pope s speech on capitol hill. a majority praised what francis had to say, despite the different views their different views with the progressive pontiff. among them, dr. ben carson. i would say take away from it the fact that we as a nation still value faith. that s the bottom line. and when you see this amount of attention for a man of faith, that is something that should be encouraging to all of us. jeb bush weighing in, too, tweeting grateful for the inspiring words of the pontiff. people of goodwill must work to the to advance the common good. marco rubio visibly emotional during the pope s address, especially when francis spoke about immigrants. but this morning, some