Pope Francis announces 2015 visit to Philadelphia for World Meeting of Families; USCCB president says Papal Visit will be 'Joyful Moment'

WASHINGTON - The visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia in September 2015 for the World Meeting of Families will be a ?joyful moment,? said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Pope Francis made his intention to travel to the United States public, November 17, in an address to the Colloquium on the Complementarity of Man and Woman at the Vatican.

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