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After an outcry over plans to keep most of Pope Francis’ audience at his biggest Philadelphia events several blocks away, organizers Thursday announced the pontiff will parade through downtown twice and said they would set aside 30,000 tickets for the public to get a closer view.
“Everyone wants to see the pope, and we totally, totally get that,” said Donna Crilley Farrell, executive director of the World Meeting of Families – the triennial Catholic conference attracting Francis to Philadelphia.
Farrell said the parades, along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway where Francis will attend the World Meeting’s closing ceremony on Sept. 26 and celebrate an outdoor Mass on Sept. 27, will give everyone an opportunity to see the pontiff up close.
cruxnow.com/us-papal-visit-2015/2015/09/03/tickets-now-required-to-get-within-2-blocks-of-popes-mass-2/
After an outcry over plans to keep most of Pope Francis’ audience at his biggest Philadelphia events several blocks away, organizers Thursday announced the pontiff will parade through downtown twice and said they would set aside 30,000 tickets for the public to get a closer view.
“Everyone wants to see the pope, and we totally, totally get that,” said Donna Crilley Farrell, executive director of the World Meeting of Families – the triennial Catholic conference attracting Francis to Philadelphia.
Farrell said the parades, along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway where Francis will attend the World Meeting’s closing ceremony on Sept. 26 and celebrate an outdoor Mass on Sept. 27, will give everyone an opportunity to see the pontiff up close.
cruxnow.com/us-papal-visit-2015/2015/09/03/tickets-now-required-to-get-within-2-blocks-of-popes-mass-2/