Pope Francis has arrived in New York, where he will speak today at the United Nations General Assembly. On Thursday he became the first pope ever to address a joint session of Congress, where he discussed poverty, hunger, climate change, refugees, immigration, the arms trade and U.S.-Cuba relations. After the congressional speech, Pope Francis skipped an offer to dine with lawmakers in order to eat with homeless residents of Washington, D.C. Speaking at St. Patrick Parish, Pope Francis spoke about the immorality of lack of housing.

Pope Francis: “I want to be very clear: We can find no social or moral justification, no justification whatsoever, for the lack of housing. There are many unjust situations, but we know that God is suffering with us, experiencing them on our side. He does not abandon us.”

Throughout his activities in the United States, the pope has been traveling in an unorthodox Popemobile — a little black Fiat that many say represents Pope Francis’ spirit of humility. We’ll have more on the historic visit after headlines with Kumi Naidoo, director of Greenpeace International; Sister Simone Campbell, director of NETWORK, a Catholic social justice group; and Robert Ellsberg, publisher of writings by Dorothy Day and books on Thomas Merton.