Pope Francis will make his first trip to the U.S. this week and an Elizabethtown native will have a front row seat. Sean McKinley is studying at the Theological College at the Catholic University of America in Washington. He’ll get to attend a mass with the pope at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in D.C.
McKinley is unsure if he’ll get to personally meet Pope Francis, but said it will be exciting just to be at the mass. McKinley was ordained as a deacon in March and hopes to be an ordained priest next May with the Archdiocese of Louisville.
Pope Francis is scheduled to arrive in Washington D.C. tomorrow for his first visit to the U.S. An Elizabethtown native couldn’t be more excited. Sean McKinley is studying at the Theological College at the Catholic University of America in Washington. He and fellow ordained deacons have been invited to help serve communion at a mass the pope will attend. McKinley isn’t sure what he will say if he gets to meet the pope.
McKinley praises Pope Francis for being charismatic and compassionate. McKinley hopes to become an ordained priest next spring and begin work with the Archdiocese of Louisville.
