This coming Saturday, June 14th, almost simultaneous with Trump's Army/Birthday parade in Washington DC, the Diocese of Chicago is going to be holding a celebration recognizing the election of Pope Leo the 14th. Now the Pope won't be there in person, but he'll speak over a live TV feed from Rome to the crowds at Rate Field, where his favorite team, the White Sox play. The event will be broadcast locally and on the internet. Tickets to attend the event live are being sold for $5 each (10,000 tickets were sold within 15 minutes of them going on sale).

It will be interesting to compare the number of empty seats a Rate Field in Chicago versus what I have to assume will be bleachers set-up along the parade route for the Washington DC event.

OCU

Before Trump was elected, the Pentagon and the Army had NO plans for any sort of 'military parade' anywhere in the country as part of their celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the establishment of the US Army. That's not the sort of thing that you expect to see in America.

OCU

Now it turns out that the major TV networks are NOT going to cover the parade on their normal broadcast channels. They may provide a video feed on their internet news outlets, but that's about it.

OCU