Pope Begins 3-Day Visit to New York
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New York Times
By IAN FISHER and LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: April 18, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI is en route to New York for a three-day visit that will include a Friday morning address at the United Nations, Sunday Mass at Yankee Stadium, and an appearance at ground zero.
He is scheduled to touch down at Kennedy International Airport at 9:45 a.m., where he will be greeted by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and other city dignitaries.
The address to the General Assembly is a papal tradition: Pope Paul VI made an appearance in 1965, and Pope John Paul II in 1979 and 1995. Some expect the pope to touch on issues related to the current strife in the Middle East, but the exact content of his speech remains unclear.
He will also meet with local Jewish clergy in the afternoon at the Park East Synagogue, a historic Orthodox congregation founded by Austro-Hungarian Jews in 1890. Its leader since 1962, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, is a Holocaust survivor with longtime ties to the Vatican; he has met with two previous popes.
Never before has a pope visited a synagogue in this country; indeed, only two papal visits to synagogues have ever been recorded, both in Europe.
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