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Comments: The Pope needs to visit South America more to help encourage the faith. There needs to be changes in the way Catholics have been doing things and we need someone inspiring to do it.
Pope Francis, the Climate and Leftism
One of the rarest and most important things a pope does is issue encyclicals. In the eight years of Pope Benedict's papacy, he issued three encyclicals. In the 27 years of Pope John Paul II's papacy, he issued 14 encyclicals. Since his ascendancy to the papacy in March 2013, Pope Francis has issued one. But Pope Francis is about to issue an encyclical to the world's 5,000 bishops and 400,000 priests that tells us a great deal about him, about Latin America and, most of all, about the influence of what has been the most dynamic religion in the world for the last hundred... Ref. Source 3
In addition to Philadelphia, Pope Francis told reporters today that he will visit New York and Washington on his upcoming trip to the United States.
In September, he is scheduled to attend the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. The trip will be Francis' first visit to the United States as pontiff. Ref. CNN