Waukegan Couple Looks Forward To Seeing Pope

(CBS) – The pope's visit next week to the U.S. has a special significance for one young suburban couple.

They will travel to see him next week and, between them, will have personally seen the last three popes.

CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports.

It's not uncommon for Marlon and Ellie Morales-Pacheco to sit down together and read the bible.

Theirs is a marriage based not just on love -- but faith. And their deeply rooted Catholic beliefs.

Their faith is evident everywhere you look in their Waukegan home.

Now, they're taking it on the road, serving as Chicago Archdiocese delegates to the church's world family meeting in Philadelphia, which Pope Francis will attend.

This will be the second time each has personally seen the pope. As a teen, Marlon went to the 2002 World Youth Day in Toronto back and saw Pope John Paul II. Ellie made a pilgrimage to Madrid four years ago for World Youth Day there and saw Pople Benedict.

Both describe their papal encounters as amazing.

They hope this trip will be just as life-changing, made all the more significant because they're going as a couple, in hopes of someday starting their own family.

"I strongly believe this trip is a gift, for all the work we've done in god's name," Ellie says.

Marlon and Ellie will be traveling by bus with other members of the local delegation.