Pope Francis shares rare English-language greeting ahead of U.S. visit
Days before his three-city tour of the United States, Pope Francis shared a rare English-language greeting with the City of Brotherly Love:
Sep 21, 2015

By Kim Bellware
Days before his three-city tour of the United States, Pope Francis shared a rare English-language greeting with the City of Brotherly Love:
“I look forward to greeting the pilgrims and the people of Philadelphia when I come for the World Meeting of Families,” Francis said in a video shared Sunday by Archbishop James Chaput of the Philadelphia Archdiocese. “I will be there because you will be there! See you in Philadelphia!”
Francis is known to be fluent in his native Spanish and Italian, and can also speak some English, French, German, Latin and Portuguese. He publicly spoke English for the first time in his papacy in October 2013.
The pope is expected to deliver speeches mostly in Spanish when he makes his first visit to the U.S. on Tuesday. The six-day tour includes stops in Washington, D.C., New York City and Philadelphia.
Francis is scheduled to visit Philadelphia on Sept. 26-27 to close out the World Meeting of Families, a triennial Catholic conference focused on strengthening family bonds.--"The Huffington Post
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