President Obama and Pope Francis during a welcoming ceremony at the White House. Pope Francis quietly but forcefully made his priorities clear during his first full day in the United States, urging in a pair of speeches a renewed emphasis on tackling global poverty, confronting climate change, caring for migrants and providing a welcoming church that is pastoral rather than doctrinaire.

This photo was published on the front page of The New York Times, Sept. 24, 2015. "Humanity has the ability to work together in building our common home,"the pope told a crowd of thousands on the South Lawn of the White House in his first major speech in English. "As Christians inspired by this certainty, we wish to commit ourselves to the conscious and responsible care of our common home." The Times wrote, "Wearing his white cassock and skullcap, Francis was greeted everywhere he went by joyful crowds. Catholics and non-Catholics alike juggled their cellphones and small flags of the Holy See as they craned for a glimpse of the 266th pope - only the fourth to visit the United States and third to visit Washington."