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House Speaker John Boehner cried during Pope Francis’s visit to Congress Thursday morning, living up to his reputation for getting teary-eyed.
Boehner, a Catholic who has been asking pontiffs to visit for the last two decades, wept after shaking hands with the Pope in a private meeting captured on live television at 9:20 a.m.
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The Pope commented on Boehner’s green tie that it’s “the color of hope,” prompting the Republican from Ohio to reply, “We’ll need a lot of hope today.”
As Francis addressed Congress 40 minutes later, Boehner wiped his eyes and nose with a handkerchief. He somehow managed to hold it together while introducing the pontiff with “distinct honor.”
Meeting the Pope was a “humbling moment,” he said later, after calling the visit a “great blessing.”
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“When you grow up Catholic, you learn about the Pope as a distant figure, closer to God than any of us,” Boehner wrote in an earlier post on Medium. “To have him here, at our Capitol, among our people, is a once-in-a-lifetime moment. A glimpse of grace.”
“For a Catholic boy like me, this is big stuff,” Boehner told CNN a couple weeks ago.
Boehner, the “Weeper of the House,” responded to jokes about his emotions, tweeting, “Of course; everyone knows it doesn’t take an act of God.”
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Vice President Joe Biden, who is Catholic, and Marco Rubio, who was raised Catholic, also appeared to get emotional during thefirst-ever papal addressto a joint meeting of Congress.
Multiple outlets, including the Guardian and the Atlantic, called that Boehner would cry in their headlines speculating about the visit.
Boehner has shed many tears during speeches throughout his tenure in Washington. He’s choked back his emotions during a segment on the completion of the U.S. Capitol Dome and an interview on the Golf Channel. He admitted to becoming a “mess” during Ann Romney’s speech at the Republican National Convention in 2012.
His penchant for crying has caused The Daily Beast to compile a montage and even sparked a Facebook page called “John Boehner Crying.”