CBS News From the archives: Pope Francis makes historic address to joint session of Congress contact@jionewz.com21 April 2025 No Comments breaking newscbs newsCBSN news electionscbsn politicslive newslive streamstream streamingu.s. newsworld news In 2015, during his trip to North America, Pope Francis became the first pontiff to address a joint session of Congress. In his speech, Francis touched on several different subjects and urged lawmakers to put aside political differences.