Papal merchandise on sale: life-size Pope Francis cutouts ($120) and T-shirts ($14.25)

More than one million people are expected to flood the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in September to try to get even a speck-size glimpse of Pope Francis.

But there's an easier way.

Organizers are selling life-size cutouts of His Holiness.

For $120 (that's the 25 percent-off price available through Saturday), you can own a "life-size standee" of Pope Francis.

The World Meeting of Families, the organization fund-raising and hosting a weeklong Catholic conference and the papal visit, is also selling tabletop papal cutouts for $15, an I [heart] Pope Francis T-shirt (with the heart substituted for a red mitre) for $14.25 and official Welcome Pope Francis posters for $9.

All the merchandise is available on the organization's website, http://wmof.myshopify.com/.

The pope's visit to Philadelphia Sept. 26 and 27 caps a five-day visit to the United States, with stops in Washington and New York.

In Philadelphia, fund-raising efforts are well underway. The World Meeting said Friday it had raised $30 million of its $45 million fund-raising goal.

The merchandise scene will surely boom as the visit approaches. In Manila, where Pope Francis celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass this week, cutouts were placed around the city months ahead of his visit, according to local news reports. Local newspapers provided lists of websites and locations where people could purchase mementos.

Meg Kane, a spokeswoman working with the World Meeting of Families, did not know how many cutouts had already sold but said a Philadelphia-area family, originally from the Philippines, came into the World Meeting of Families office to purchase a cutout.

The popular pope has a wide array of tributes to him for sale on Amazon, including a Pope Francis baby onesie with his coat of arms, and Pope Francis soccer jerseys.

Another item for sale on the World Meeting of Families website is a $15 Pope Francis quote mug with many of his sayings, including: "If money and material things become the center of our lives they seize us and make us slaves."