Pope Francis Goes to Washington

In TIME, Elizabeth Dias reports on the effects of the pope’s impending September visit to Washington, D.C. “Until now there has never been a Pope, much less one with a political agenda like Francis’, who has been invited to address a joint session of Congress by Speaker John Boehner, a practicing Catholic,” Dias writes. “All this may mark something of a reversal in American politics, or at least a pause.”

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