And with that i will turn it over to linda. Thank you, sandy. We will move right into logistics. Im going to in this helen osman, secretary of communications for the u. S. Catholic conference of bishops, court in getting Media Coverage next month which, of course, is why we are all the. Shes been with usccb since 2007 and has been a major player in bringing the church into the digital and social media age. In 2012 the Catholic Press association honored her with the st. Francis award for personal achievement and were happy to have her with us today. Thank you, linda. I appreciate evolving willing to work with me on Getting Started on time. I have some meetings thats mandatory for me answer of my colleagues to be at, at 10 00. I have a few slides, but i like to give more time for yall to ask questions if thats okay with everyone. I thought i would go over very quickly, but of whats different from previous papal visit. I was in the same role in 2008 when Pope Benedict game. And worked with colleagues and still work with colleagues where at the conference for the previous visit of the pope. About credential accomplish become of the five centers and other resources that were offering to journalists. 50,000 level view of the whole schedule for pope francis and then what specifically were doing at the conference in reaching out to the general public. Level of interest is one aspect. We had a great deal of interest in 2008 but i dont like to use this is unprecedented. We close credentialing on friday. With over 7000 applications from individuals and probably about 600 outlets that are fast for space at the venues where pope francis will appear. He intends to speak quite often first in spanish, then alternate, having english translator available to you. People go back and forth so that will be something new for us. Social media come in 2008 remember it was just beginning. We had long conversations over whether we would credential bloggers or not. Not even bothering talking about that. Yes, we are credentialing everybody. Again just the whole media landscape has changed dramatically over the past seven years, mobile devices, like streaming. The part id like to emphasize is the bottom line. When we started planning with the vatican which was back in january of this year, from the very beginning, every time i would ask a question are these events open to the media, the answer was yes, absolutely. Yes, absolutely. We would like to see it available around the world. So weve been working with the networks on cool coverage alleys people coverage of every event. As i mentioned with close credentialing on friday. This is only for the venues for which the church as responsibility. That means we are not credentialing for the white house, congress and United Nations. We are not credentialing for the white house, United Nations or congress. But everything else. We anticipate that well try to be engaging in conversations in social media both in spanish and in english. Weve already asked folks to start using the hashtag papaenusa. And again were working with the pool, but the people so that we can have simultaneous translation when hes speaking in either spanish or english for events again at this point we havent dealt the details of reaching out to the white house or congress and in the view and is already planning simultaneous translation. We will have a Filing Center in the city and booktv those addresses in the next slide, and linda s. Offer to distribute this to you also you have those, but at each of the Filing Centers we will have a live video feed from the tv pool. Will have copies of the speeches. I fast we have those in english and spanish. They are lrip the need to have them as soon as possible, at least on the day of. The holy father does take great personal interest in his text. I understand and often revises, sometimes revises extemporaneously as you speaking. Just an alert to everyone on the. We will have any good desk, if folks want to interview other people. The holy father is not in any requests or individual interviews. If you are on the plane with him, and that is already been determined, the media got been given that privilege, and, of course, he doesnt do those on playing it is with a group of the only time where he will entertain interviews. But we will have a cadre of lots of other folks for you to talk with. Also different of his trip from other trips by popes to the u. S. , everybody will have a briefing from father federico, a press officer. And we will be using the Filing Centers as a transport center to bring the media who have received assignments to the venue, received credentials for the venues, using it to bring you in on buses. To work with the secret service and other agencies so they get what youre supposed to be and make sure all those places get failed because extremely high demand for those. Easy to remember, the ttc Marriott Marquis is, in washington and marriott downtown. New york and Marriott Marquis times square. Philadelphia its very up associate with the Convention Center, and actually the Convention Center hall is what we will be running a Filing Center. Just think marriott and easy remember on that. You will need a usccb secret service credential to go into the Filing Center. And let me run very quickly through, most of you probably are aware but he is coming in from cuba on tuesday evening september the second i believe and will have a briefing that they actually immediately after he arrived with father lombardi at the Filing Center. The next morning he goes to the white house. Again white house credentials for the. Immediately following that the ghost of st. Matthews cathedral and as midday prayer with the bishops. Its not a mass but it is official prayer of the church and people have some remarks of their in spanish. Following that any afternoon we are over at the campus of Catholic University of america and the basilica National Shrine immaculate conception, and he will celebrate mass they are. I think the number is about 22000 right now anticipated to be able to be there. He will also officially recognize saint. To be a mass of canonization. Thursday visits congress. After that he will go over to Saint Patricks in the city where theres at Catholic Charities center and meet with about 200 of the clients. Folks to use Catholic Charity services began to speak in spanish with those individuals. Out and give the jfk, both in york, still not done for the day. He visits his second Saint Patricks of the day to st. Patricks cathedral for the archdiocese in new york where he will have evening prayer with folks there. Friday morning is over at the United Nations. I can those are you in a credentials. After that he goes over to ground zero where he has two movements. He will meet with individuals who were affected immediately by the events of 9 11, family members, first responders, et cetera on the outside around the two pools and then he will go inside and will be an event being called a multireligious event with a think about 700 faith, religious leaders. After that he goes up to east harlem to a school that serves immigrant families and another Catholic Charity centers. That evening he has mass at Madison Square garden. The next morning he gets up, goes to philadelphia, has mass at the cathedral with a faithful of philadelphia archdiocese. Hes greeted by seminarians at the seminary where he will be in residence those of todays. That afternoon he goes down to Independence Hall and will have an address on religious freedom. That afternoon he joined the festival of families which is a multievent, celebration, music, presentation. He will be there for about 90 minutes but the actual festival i think its about four hours on the Benjamin Franklin parkway in philadelphia. The next morning he needs at the seminary with the bishops who have been attending all week, a gathering for families in philadelphia. That also is part of the festival of families. Goes from there over to sorry, i just linked on the main. Prison in philadelphia. Will meet with a group of 100 who are incarcerated there, most likely younger people. Again will be speaking in spanish and english. And then large mass, huge mess, enormous mass on the Benjamin Franklin parkway. We may have up to 2 Million People who want to participate in that, and he goes back out and wheels up. About 8 00 sunday night. Then also just very quickly all a bit of what we are doing. The usccb is launching a mobile solution. I think i discredited in the app store for the august 15 called Catholic Church. We think. But we will be Live Streaming on that all the events. We want to encourage people to watch parties, i mean, i think i going including all legitimate stories about people who we want to get here to see the pope francis and we recognize the intensity of interest. What we are encouraging parishes and schools and ics to do is think about watch parties locally. For those who cant during, virtual pilgrims if you want to call it the. Our website u. S. Papal visit. Org is intended to also be a place where people can catch the live stream and other information. Will have password quasipasswordprotected section in debt for journalists, resources were developing right now actually. So again if you want to write anything uspapalvisit. Org would be to go to cybermedia, and if youve got a just go questions for media, hope logistics at gmail. Com is our preferred email under the of mind which is fine but if you send to this one that needs t assessment to get lost in all the other stuff that i have going on. So thats like this is a quick flight to. I want to ask finessing specific questions or anything else . Yes. [inaudible] yes. Which i to do is to go into uspapalvisit. Org, scroll down on the bottom of the home page theres a link to the secret Service Website which is where you go to get the credential. [inaudible] we are hoping to get bishops, other experts. And again we are compiling all of that, so yes. Those kinds of folks. Yes, sir. Did you have a okay, greg. Sorry. For the st. Matthews cathedral event, can you give us any sense of how much press will be allowed in there, or who else is going to be in there besides bishops . It will be very, its not a large area as you probably know. Added to know the full guest list but it will be limited access for media inside and were working on risers on the outside as well but it will be limited. Hi, good morning. Is this the same one that [inaudible] so thats not longer an option. You can still get into the website if you for the Filing Center . Yes, for the Filing Center but we close on a binge on friday. Is it possible to get a credentials just for the Filing Center . Yes. Daily briefing will be webcast speak with yes. It will all be live stream. But you know to watch it it would be passwordprotected . No, it will be public. It will be part of the pool feed. Does that make sense . So we will feed the life briefings into what is provided through the u. S. Tv pool. Okay, will be life, okay. [inaudible] if we applied for a venue, when we get the secret service credential are doing it to do that separately . No. The secret service credential, you would use that to access the menu. Okay, but if we have done that already, like applied for a venue, then do we also, ever want to go to the Filing Center, do we need a separate it all works, works across all three venues spinning so if we applied already by the first deadline been you are good. Cant guarantee youll get into ben jawad but you have your credentials. They running those through background checks now. Greg. Thank you so much. Thank you. And now im going to introduce William Douglas. Is a Congressional Correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers. He is reporting experience in nukes a schools, bill clintons second president ial term, the iraq war. Now he is covering congress, another kind of war, the president ial election for mcclatchy. Bill has support for getting a good story from the pope visit on capital. Thank you all for again. I look out and see something we face on capitol hill. I can speak from the capital perspective of the popes speech to congress. This will be very, very different. If i had to describe the significance or importance of his speech this is going to be like a had a state visit on steroids in terms of demand for media, in terms of demand for members of congress to actually be in the chamber for the popes speech. Congress, people can claim congress doesnt do a lot but i think last week they managed to vote, x. Member of profit all the seats will be filled with members of the house and senate. They normally when heads of state visit even with Prime Minister netanyahus speech a couple of month ago you had what they called filler. Unit Staff Members were interned filling seats. I will not happen this time around. I doubt there will be a member of congress who would not want to skip this. For our selfish purposes in terms of covering this, this is going to challenge for reporters who want to cover this speech. Again going back to state of the Union Address or going back to a regular, hate is a normal head of state, but a regular head of state for lack of a better phrase. You know, we normally will go to the house and senate press galleries, say would like to be in the chamber at least be in the gallery to file. Theyre usually very, very accommodating. This timer is going to be more complicated because they perhaps accommodate not just us, asking the congressional everyday u. S. Press but the foreign press. They will have to find a room for the popes traveling press. So its going to be very, very tight in the House Press Gallery which is already a tight space as it is now. If you are not, well, if youre not a credentialed reporter to capitol hill, that is if you dont have a congressional hard past you will not be in the u. S. Capitol that day. Theyre not going to our passes or the little stickers you can get. Thats not going to work. Even with the heart as theres no guarantee that youre going to get into the chamber. If it if you havent made a request i would suggest you do so today. They still havent gone had it going to do this but its going to be very, very limited. As people who cover the hill know theres x number of seats in the press gallery inside the chamber and, of course, the Wire Services have their seats and some of the other sort of longtime capitol hill publications and those daytoday present will more than likely did in. Those who are occasional visitors to capitol hill even with the hard past theres a guarantee youll get in. That would be maybe some columnist who might visit from time to time. If you feel youre not a routine or regular visitor on capitol hill and you want to be in the chamber i would suggest you start either calling the galleries or come up with a plan be relatively fast because its going to be very, very, very tight. The pope speaks at 10 00 promptly. So that means you have to be in the building early. Advise you probably gone through the house and Senate Office buildings as opposed to try to get into the capital. Because as you know when you go to the capital youve got to go through the security and there will be lines. Its best to go to the Office Buildings. I would say my general thumb, and im paranoid, or addresses i tend to get there an hour or two early just to get myself time to go through they could and get set up. I would advise you all to do that, maybe even a little bit earlier. Theres a nice captures in the building. You can bide your time but just to avoid the hassle because there is going to be hassled because they will be more security and security will be much, much more thorough probably down the are. They are thorough now. Able to get up to another level when the book arrives. Give yourself time to get there. Bring what you need to bring. That will also help with security. Dont bring any extraneous stuff. Dont bring your gym bag. Dont plan on working out after the speech. Just bring your work stuff this hud will go much quicker. Now for those folks who dont get in, Speaker Boehner has opened up the west front. To be a jumbotron outside. That is a ticketed event. Citizens this count expect to get in and watch the speech on the jumbotron. I would suggest to citizens who have decided to do that you may want to call your member of congress. Im not quite sure how to take it even goes but i assume it might be like inauguration, and you just call your member of congress and see to get a ticket and try to get there. Yes . [inaudible] i have no idea. I think they are still working through the. All i know is its going to be limited. Limited to what capacity is and limited companies and limited budgets of the sheer numbers that will be there. I dont have any intelligence on the exact number. Just a bigot if you covered a state of being or covert a head of state speech and give them to the gallery, you know how long the road are and how many bench seats that are. Just go based on that. So thats pretty much the upshot of what all i know about getting in. If you have any questions, i can try to answer. Im going to ask a question so hold off for a minute int