Abraham Lincoln was one of four notable Americans highlighted by the Pope in his speech before Congress:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/soc...?tid=sm_fb

(09-24-2015 10:07 AM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  Abraham Lincoln was one of four notable Americans highlighted by the Pope in his speech before Congress:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/soc...?tid=sm_fb

Thank you, Susan.

Here are the specific parts of the Pope's speech where Lincoln is mentioned:

"I would like to mention four of these Americans: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton."

"This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the guardian of liberty, who laboured tirelessly that “this nation, under God, [might] have a new birth of freedom”. Building a future of freedom requires love of the common good and cooperation in a spirit of subsidiarity and solidarity."

"Three sons and a daughter of this land, four individuals and four dreams: Lincoln, liberty; Martin Luther King, liberty in plurality and non-exclusion; Dorothy Day, social justice and the rights of persons; and Thomas Merton, the capacity for dialogue and openness to God."

"Four representatives of the American people."

I had not read nor heard what the Pope had said. Thanks for posting this.