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In this Sept. 16, 2015, file photo, Pope Francis speaks during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

WESLEY PRUDEN: Fidel Castro, Obama angle for a piece of Pope Francis

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

Holy orders: Pope Francis looks out from the Hill of the Cross in Holguin, Cuba, Monday as he entreated the island nation to adapt some of its more conservative views. Francis faces some backlash from U.S. Catholics for his more liberal views on such issues as same-sex unions and climate change. Story A8. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The naive intentions of Pope Francis in Cuba

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this photo taken on Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, children greet Pope Francis with flowers upon his arrival at Santiago de Cuba's airport, Cuba. Pope Francis began a 10-day trip to Cuba and the United States on Saturday, embarking on his first trip to the onetime Cold War foes after helping to nudge forward their historic rapprochement. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)

Move over Donald Trump - Pope Francis’ approval ratings are much higher

By Mary Rezac - Catholic News Agency

Director Joseph Clancy (right) and other members of the Secret Service visit the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington as preparations are finalized for Pope Francis to lead a canonization Mass. (AP Photo)

Pope Francis’ D.C. visit raises security, traffic closures to highest levels

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Pope Francis, who will address a joint session of Congress this week, arrives for Sunday Mass before hundreds of thousands of people in Havana, Cuba. (Associated Press)

Pope Francis’ address to Congress poses quandary for lawmakers over lone guest ticket

By S.A. Miller and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this July 12, 2015, file photo, Pope Francis checks his watch as Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi stands beside him, during an airborne press conference aboard the airplane directed to Rome, at the end of his Apostolic journey in Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay. The Pope plans to meet Cuba’s president and its priests, its young and its sick, its churchgoers and its seminarians as he travels across the island starting Saturday. But not its dissidents. Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said that Francis had not accepted any invitations to meet with dissidents, and well-known opposition members told The Associated Press they have received no invitation to see him. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Pope plans to duck dissidents in Cuba, spawning criticism

By Andrea Rodriguez and Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press