US House Speaker gets the compliments of Pope: Pope Francis liked the US House of Representatives speaker John Boehner’s tie and told him so at their meeting in Washington ahead of his address to the US Congress
Seated beside Boehner in a leather armchair in his office, the Pope complimented the Republican on the colour of tie saying: “Green in the colour of hope.”
“We’ll need a lot of hope today,” Boehner quipped.
Pope Francis is on the second of a five-day visit to the US.
The Pope’s US visit will also include stops in New York and Philadelphia, where all 10,000 tickets to an open-air mass are already taken.
Pope Francis will address the UN in New York on Friday.
