"dreamers" (those who follow the American dream), adult or unaccompanied minors   
   migrating from Latin America (69 per cent), refugees from Africa or the Middle   
   East, and also African Americans (22 per cent). The school forms part of a   
   network of six Catholics schools in the Harlem and South Bronx neighbourhoods,   
   financed and managed by the Catholic charitable initiative Partnership,   
   coordinated by the archdiocese of New York, to whom the premises belong. The   
   foundation was formally instituted in 2010, and aims to break the vicious   
   circle   
   of poverty.   
    The Pope arrived at the School of Our Lady Queen of Angels yesterday shortly   
   after 4 p.m. (10 p.m. in Rome) to meet with the pupils, their families and the   
   teachers who awaited him in the gymnasium. It was an informal meeting in which   
   the Pope asked forgiveness from the teachers for taking some minutes away from   
   the lesson and commented that one of the most beautiful characteristics of the   
   school was the fact that some of the pupils come from other places and many   
   from   
   other countries. "That is nice", he added. "Even though I know it is not easy   
   to   
   have to move and find a new home, new neighbours and new friends. At the   
   beginning it can be hard. Often you have to learn a new language, adjust to a   
   new culture, even a new climate. There is so much to learn! And not just at   
   school; so many other things".   
    "The good thing is that we also make new friends", he continued. "And this is   
   very important. ... We meet people who open doors for us, who are kind to us.   
   They   
   offer us friendship and understanding, and they try to help us not to feel like   
   strangers. ... Although at times we dream of our homelands, we meet good people   
   who help us to feel at home. How nice it is to feel that school is a second   
   home. This is not only important for you, but also for your families. School   
   then ends up being one big family where ... we learn to help one another, to   
   give   
   the best of ourselves, to work as a team, which is so important, and to pursue   
   our dreams".   
    "Very near here is a very important street named after a man who did a lot for   
   other people. I want to talk a little bit about him. He was the Reverend Martin   
   Luther King. One day he said, 'I have a dream'. His dream was that many   
   children, many people could have equal opportunities. His dream was that many   
   children like you could get an education. He dreamed that many men and women,   
   like you, could hold their heads high, with the dignity of one who earns a   
   living. It is beautiful to have dreams and to be able to fight for them. Do not   
   forget".   
    "Today we want to keep dreaming. We celebrate all the opportunities which   
   enable you, and us adults, not to lose the hope of a better world with greater   
   possibilities. ... I know that one of the dreams of your parents and teachers   
   is   
   that you can grow up and be happy. ... It is not always easy. In every home   
   there   
   are problems, difficult situations, illness, but never stop dreaming that you   
   can live with joy. Dear children, you have a right to dream and I am very happy   
   that here in this school, in your friends and your teachers, you can find the   
   support you need. Wherever there are dreams, there is joy, Jesus is always   
   present".   
    Before leaving, the Pope asked the children if he could give them some   
   homework. "It is just a little request, but a very important one", he said.   
   "Please don't forget to pray for me, so that I can share with many people the   
   joy of Jesus. And let us also pray so that many other people can share the joy   
   like yours, when you feel supported, helped and advised, even when there are   
   problems".   
      
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    Mass in Madison Square Garden: God is living in our cities   
    Vatican City,26 September 2015 (VIS) - The Pope concluded his day in New York   
   with a Holy Mass for peace and justice in Madison Square Garden, a place   
   synonymous with the city, as Francis recalled: "The site of important athletic,   
   artistic and musical events" representing "both the variety and the common   
   interests of so many different people". It isa place where "The people who   
   walked in darkness have seen a great light", as yesterday's reading from the   
   prophet Isaiah tells. The Holy Father dedicated his homily to this light.   
    "The people who walked - caught up in their activities and routines, amid   
   their   
   successes and failures, their worries and expectations - have seen a great   
   light", affirmed the Pontiff, remarking that the People of God is invited in   
   every historical age to contemplate this light, since one of the special   
   qualities of the faithful is the capacity to see, amid the shadows, the light   
   that Christ comes to bring. "With the prophet today we can say: the people that   
   walks, breathes, lives amid the smog, has seen a great light, has experienced   
   the air of life".   
    "Living in a big city is not always easy", commented the Pope. "A   
   multicultural   
   context presents many complex challenges. Yet big cities are a reminder of the   
   hidden riches present in our world: in the diversity of its cultures,   
   traditions   
   and historical experiences. ... Big cities bring together all the different   
   ways   
   which we human beings have discovered to express the meaning of life, wherever   
   we may be. But big cities also conceal the faces of all those people who don't   
   appear to belong, or are second-class citizens. In big cities, beneath the roar   
   of traffic, beneath 'the rapid pace of change', so many faces pass by unnoticed   
   because they have no 'right' to be there, no right to be part of the city. They   
   are the foreigners, the children who go without schooling, those deprived of   
   medical insurance, the homeless, the forgotten elderly. These people stand at   
   the edges of our great avenues, in our streets, in deafening anonymity. They   
   become part of an urban landscape which is more and more taken for granted, in   
   our eyes, and especially in our hearts".   
    However, "knowing that Jesus still walks our streets, that he is part of the   
   lives of his people, that he is involved with us in one vast history of   
   salvation, fills us with ... hope which liberates us from the forces pushing   
   us to   
   isolation and lack of concern for the lives of others, for the life of our   
   city.   
   ... A hope which makes us see, even in the midst of smog, the presence of God   
   as   
   he continues to walk the streets of our city".   
    "The prophet Isaiah can guide us in this process of 'learning to see'",   
   continued Francis. "He presents Jesus to us as 'Wonderful Counsellor, the   
   Mighty   
   God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace'". The Pope went on to explain   
   each of these appellations.   
    "Wonderful Counsellor. The Gospels tell us how many people came up to Jesus to   
   ask: 'Master, what must we do?' The first thing that Jesus does in response is   
   to propose, to encourage, to motivate. He keeps telling his disciples to go, to   
   go out. He urges them to go out and meet others where they really are, not   
   where   
   we think they should be. ... The Mighty God: In Jesus, God himself became   
   Emmanuel, God-with-us, the God who walks alongside us. ... The Everlasting   
   Father: Go out and proclaim, go out and show that God is in your midst as a   
   merciful Father who himself goes out, morning and evening, to see if his son   
   has   
   returned home and, as soon as he sees him coming, runs out to embrace him. ...   
   Prince of Peace: Go out to others and share the good news that God, our Father,   
   walks at our side. He frees us from anonymity, from a life of emptiness and   
   selfishness, and brings us to the school of encounter. He removes us from the   
   fray of competition and self-absorption, and he opens before us the path of   
   peace. That peace which is born of accepting others, that peace which fills our   
   hearts whenever we look upon those in need as our brothers and sisters".   
    "God is living in our cities. The Church is living in our cities, and she   
   wants   
   to be like leaven in the dough", concluded Pope Francis. "She wants to relate   
   to   
   everyone, to stand at everyone's side, as she proclaims the marvels of the   
   Wonderful Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Eternal Father, the Prince of Peace.   
   'The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light'. And we ourselves   
   are witnesses of that light".   
    Today, 26 September, the Holy Father travels to Philadelphia where he will   
   celebrate Mass with the clergy and religious of Pennsylvania in the Basilica of   
   St. Peter and St. Paul, attend a meeting with the Hispanic community and other   
   immigrants in Independence National Historical Park, and will pronounce a   
   discourse in Benjamin Franklin Parkway on the eve of the World Meeting of   
   Families.   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 26 September 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:   
    - Archbishop Paolo Rocco Gualtieri, apostolic nuncio in Madagascar, as   
   apostolic nuncio in the Seychelles.   
    - Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A., as bishop of Chiclayo (area 15,647,   
   population 1,275,215, Catholics 1,132,202, priests 113, religious 171), Peru.   
   Bishop Prevost is currently apostolic administrator of the same diocese.   
    - appointed Fr. Zbigniew Zielinski as auxiliary of Gdansk, (area 2,500,   
   population 965,077, Catholics 900,608, priests 748, religious 689), Poland. The   
   bishop-elect was born in Gdansk, Poland in 1965 and was ordained a priest in   
   1991. He holds a doctorate in pastoral theology from the Cardinal Stefan   
   Wyszynski University of Warsaw and has served in a number of pastoral and   
   academic roles, pastor of the St. Michael parish and of the Cathedral of   
   Gdansk-Oliwa and lecturer in sociology of religion at the state University of   
   Gdansk. He is currently pastor of the con-Cathedral, lecturer in pastoral   
   theology in the major seminary, and member of the Commission for canonical   
   visits in the parishes, the presbyteral council, and the college of consultors.   
   In 2007 he was named Chaplain of His Holiness.   
    - appointed Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, metropolitan archbishop of Bologna, and   
   Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, as   
   members of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.   
      
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