As Francis arrives in D.C., fans of all stripes welcome, watch, and wait
c. 2015 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS) With cheers of delight and cellphone cameras held high, an enthusiastic and disparate crowd of hundreds gathered outside the Vatican Embassy on Tuesday (September 22) to welcome Pope Francis to the U.S.
Dozens of members of Neocatechumenal Way, a Catholic lay movement, sang and danced, shaking tambourines and playing guitars. Next to them stood seminarians with a large banner from Redemptoris Mater Seminary of Washington. People crushed together hoping for a glimpse as the pontiff entered what will be his residence for the next three days.
