New York City ? Pope Benedict XVI will meet the president, hold two public Masses and address the United Nations as part of his first visit to the United States as pontiff and the first papal trip to this country since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Benedict will stop in Washington and New York over five days in April, during which he will meet with President Bush at the White House, hold Masses at Nationals Stadium and Yankee Stadium and, on the last day, visit the World Trade Center site as a show of “solidarity with those who have died, with their families and with all those who wish an end of violence and in the search of peace,” said Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican’s U.S. ambassador.

It is the first papal visit to the United States since Benedict’s predecessor, Pope John Paul II, traveled to St. Louis in 1999. Benedict also will meet with Catholic university presidents, religious educators and leaders of other faiths.