• People walk past signs posted ahead of the World Meeting of Families and Pope Francis's scheduled visit, Tuesday in Philadelphia. Pope Francis will attend the World Meeting's closing concert, the Festival of Families, on Saturday and celebrate Mass on Sunday. Both events are being held on the city's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Francis will parade down the parkway's outer lanes before both events. Homeless people on the parkway are being evicted amid a security sweep. | AP
    People walk past signs posted ahead of the World Meeting of Families and Pope Francis's scheduled visit, Tuesday in Philadelphia. Pope Francis will attend the World Meeting's closing concert, the Festival of Families, on Saturday and celebrate Mass on Sunday. Both events are being held on the city's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Francis will parade down the parkway's outer lanes before both events. Homeless people on the parkway are being evicted amid a security sweep. | AP

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PHILADELPHIA – Amid misty waterfalls and art museums along the parkway where Pope Francis will hold a public Mass in Philadelphia Sunday, makeshift abodes belonging to some of the city’s homeless are coming down.

Benjamin Franklin Parkway, a stretch of cultural centers and grassy parks where homeless sleep and tote their belongings in plastic bags, is undergoing papal security checks and cleanup that will displace some of the downtrodden that Francis champions.

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