In the middle of his trip to Washington, D.C., Pope Francis made an “unschedued” stop to meet with members of an group of nuns suing the federal government over the Obama administration’s contraception and abortifacient mandate in the health-care law. The Little Sisters of the Poor is an order of nuns within the Catholic Church that provides assistance for the elderly, and the group has sued on religious liberty grounds against the Obama administration mandate that employers provide contraception health-insurance coverage.

The Washington Post religion reporter Michelle Boorstein reports on Twitter that the pope met with the group on Wednesday: