There is more to the speech, so it will take until next week to finish it. Then I'd like to expand on the people Pope Francis brought to the forefront from the American past.

I find Pope Francis is more contemporary than previous Popes. He embraces the world without question and without qualification.

He also embraces God's creation and all the life Earth has known in it's biosphere. I dare say he is a Pope unlike any other. I am grateful for him. 

It is time Americans pay attention to each other within reach of reality.

There was something else that occurred this week. A Nobel Peace Prize that found greatness in leaders that brought a country together and formed a democracy that is inclusive. A democracy of people and not ideologies.

October 9, 2015
By Sewell Chan 
 

LONDON — A coalition of labor union leaders, businesspeople, lawyers and human rights activists won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for what the Nobel committee called “its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.”

The prize to the coalition, (click here) known as the National Dialogue Quartet, comes nearly five years after an unemployed street vendor set himself on fire, touching off a political earthquake that toppled Tunisia’s longtime authoritarian president and proceeded to reverberate throughout the Middle East and North Africa....

Dare I say, this is a Pope Francis dream come true.