Francis may bring 'uncomfortable messages' to America,

When Pope Francis alights on U.S. soil Tuesday, will he start rapping capitalist American on the knuckles for not doing enough to help the poor or adopt a more pastoral approach similar to the other three pontiffs who have visited America before him? No one expects the 78 year-old pontiff to the launch rhetorical grenades like those in some of speeches during his July trip to Latin America, including the assertion to Bolivian civil workers that “unfettered capitalism is the dung of the devil.” But few expect the Argentine pope to stray far from his core message that man must stop worshiping money and focus on the care of the poor and of the environment.

“In America, Pope Francis is going to challenge everybody – liberals, conservatives, Republicans and Democrats..he's going to have uncomfortable messages,” predicts Papal biographer Austen Ivereigh, author of "The Great Reformer, Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope."