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Pope Francis Goes to Washington
posted on May 21, 2015In 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.”