--- title: Selfies of People Celebrating Pope Francis's Journey Across the U.S. description: The U.S. is celebrating the Pontiff's first-ever visit on social media canonical: https://time.com/4045351/pope-francis-us-visit-selfies/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-25T14:46:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:09.951Z og:title: People Can't Resist Snapping Selfies With the Pope og:description: The U.S. is celebrating the Pontiff's first-ever visit on social media og:url: https://time.com/4045351/pope-francis-us-visit-selfies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eeab41011995ed9/6988650cab6d779ace6a6508/pope-francis-us-dc-selfie-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 og:image:alt: pope-francis-us-dc-selfie-1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Can't Resist Snapping Selfies With the Pope twitter:description: The U.S. is celebrating the Pontiff's first-ever visit on social media twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eeab41011995ed9/6988650cab6d779ace6a6508/pope-francis-us-dc-selfie-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Can't Resist Snapping Selfies With the Pope > Sponsored content. 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Joseph posted from Washington, D.C., saying "#Blessed" philipgjoseph (@philipgjoseph ) via Instagram  Cathy McMorris posted from Washington, D.C. saying "It was great to see the #PopeinDC this morning!" cathymcmorris(@cathymcmorris) via Instagram  James Akers Jr. posted from Washington, D.C.: "Technically a #popeselfie" jamesakersjr (@jamesakersjr) via Instagram  Erica Lynn P. posted from Washington, D.C., saying "I took a selfie with Papa Francesco. What did you do today?" jamesakersjr (@jamesakersjr) via Instagram  Connor Schumacher posted from Washington, D.C., saying "His Holiness Pope Francis." cschumacher15 (@cschumacher15) via Instagram ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4045351/pope-francis-us-visit-selfies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4045351/pope-francis-us-visit-selfies/"},"headline":"People Can't Resist Snapping Selfies With the Pope","datePublished":"2015-09-25T14:46:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:09.951Z","description":"The U.S. is celebrating the Pontiff's first-ever visit on social media","url":"https://time.com/4045351/pope-francis-us-visit-selfies/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","Internet","Pope Francis","twitter","selfies","photography","America","Instagram","pope"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eeab41011995ed9/6988650cab6d779ace6a6508/pope-francis-us-dc-selfie-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eeab41011995ed9/6988650cab6d779ace6a6508/pope-francis-us-dc-selfie-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"pope-francis-us-dc-selfie-1","caption":"Enija Davidonyte posted this Pontiff snapshot on Facebook.","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4045351/pope-francis-us-visit-selfies/","name":"People Can't Resist Snapping Selfies With the Pope"}}]}] ```