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# Vatican Confirms Pope Francis’ 2015 U.S. Visit

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## Video: Vatican Confirms Pope Francis’ 2015 U.S. Visit

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_Published 2014-11-17. Pope Francis is officially coming to the United States next year for his first ever visit to the country as pontiff, and a lot of people are very excited._


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## Transcript

Pope Francis is officially coming to the United States next year for his first ever visit to the country as pope. And a lot of people are very excited. We're excited beyond belief. And just so happy that the pope confirmed this morning. That's despite the fact the pope's visit attending the world meeting of. Families in Philadelphia has been pretty widely expected within the church since this past summer. Late July saw headlines like this one from the Washington Post attributing the information to an American Archbishop. While the Los Angeles Times flat out said Pope Francis would be coming next fall.

And the organizers of the event were already planning on an Papal visit. Initially, it was planned that he might be in a stadium but we said this is the Pope of the people so we wouldn't be surprised if we saw upwards of a 23 million people for the mass. On that Sunday. The mass is set to be held on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, which runs through the middle of the city and hosted the last pope to visit Philadelphia, when Pope John Paul II held mass there in 1979. The pope appears to have had his eyes on the US recently as well, commenting on one issue pulled straight from the headlines. In a speech on Saturday, Pope Francis, lumped in euthanasia with abortion and stem cell research as a sin against God, calling it an act of quote false compassion.

That seemed particularly timely given the assisted suicide earlier this month of American Death With Dignity activist Brittany Maynard. The rest of the Pope's itinerary isn't clear, but according to a Vatican representative, he will also be visiting New York City.

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