In August of 2015 Pope Francis visited Philadelphia and members of our Youth Group were able, thanks to the generosity of our parishioners, to go to Philadelphia to see him. 
The group fundaised half of the cost of the trip and paid the rest themselves. 
They spent 5 days there and thanks to one of the chaperones, Samantha Fox, who was able to get tickets for the group, they were able to go to Washington DC to see Pope Francis address Congress.
This was a once in a lifetime experience for us and we are very grateful to the parishioners for their generosity.  If it wasn't for them we wouldn't have been able to go to Philadelphia to see the Pope.