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Posted by: Brittany Sims on Feb 5, 2015

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner announced today that Pope Francis will become the first pope to address Congress on Sept. 24, RollCall reports. Francis will be in Philadelphia in late September for a global conference on Roman Catholic family values. The speech to a joint session will be the day after Yom Kippur, even though the House is scheduled to be in recess surrounding the Jewish High Holy Day.