FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead the weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis delivers his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message from the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 16, 2017. Osservatore Romano/Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis waves to confirmation candidates at Saint Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy, March 25, 2017. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis leaves at the end of a ceremony at the Chaldean Catholic Church of St. Simon Bar Sabbae in Tbilisi, Georgia, September 30, 2016. Osservatore Romano/Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY.
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis plays with a ball as members of Circus of Cuba perform during the Wednesday general audience in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican January 2, 2019. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis greets a person dressed as Spider-Man after the general audience, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at the Vatican, June 23, 2021. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis leads the Good Friday Passion of the Lord in St. Peter's Basilica with no public participation due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Vatican, April 10, 2020. Andrew Medichini/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis sends a virtual hug after delivering his weekly Angelus prayer via video at the Vatican, March 15, 2020. Vatican Media/ Handout via REUTERS/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis waves as he delivers the "Urbi et Orbi" Christmas Day message from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, December 25, 2019. REUTERS/Yara Nardi/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis celebrates a mass at the Artemio Franchi stadium during his pastoral visit in Florence November 10, 2015. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis releases a dove at the end of a visit to the Chaldean Catholic Church of St. Simon Bar Sabbae in Tbilisi, Georgia, September 30, 2016. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis walks through Auschwitz's notorious gate with the sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work sets you free) during his visit to the former Nazi death camp, Poland, July 29, 2016. Filippo Monteforte/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis waves at the end of the Palm Sunday mass at Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 20, 2016. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis waves during the "Urbi et Orbi" (to the City and the World) Christmas message from the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican December 25, 2015. Osservatore Romano/Vatican Media/Handout via Reuters/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS.
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis blesses the Austro-Hungarian cemetery at Fogliano in Redipuglia September 13, 2014. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis opens the Holy Door to mark the opening of the Catholic Holy Year, or Jubilee, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, December 8, 2015. REUTERS/Max Rossi/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis releases a white dove prior to delivering a Holy Mass at the Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Istanbul November 29, 2014. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis touches the stones of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 26, 2014. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis reacts as he is greeted by cloistered nuns at the Duomo during his pastoral visit in Naples March 21, 2015 REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis is silhouetted against a window light at the end of a meeting with Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo at the Vatican October 25, 2013. REUTERS/Max Rossi/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis waves as he leads a special audience for members of CSI (Italian sport centres) in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican June 7, 2014. REUTERS/Max Rossi/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Newly elected Pope Francis appears at the window of his future private apartment to bless the faithful, gathered below in St. Peter's Square, during the Sunday Angelus prayer at the Vatican March 17, 2013. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Newly elected Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after being elected by the conclave of cardinals at the Vatican, March 13, 2013. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis sits with headgear as he visits Vanimo, Papua New Guinea, September 8, 2024. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis reacts as he attends the weekly general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican, February 5, 2025. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis greets people gathered in the streets of Leuven, Belgium September 27, 2024. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis sits in between nuns on the day of a weekly general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican, February 5, 2025. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis blesses a faithful during the weekly general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican, August 9, 2023. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis gestures from a balcony, on the day the "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and to the world) message is delivered at St. Peter's Square, on Easter Sunday, at the Vatican, April 20, 2025. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis cries while speaking about Ukraine as he attends the Immaculate Conception celebration prayer in Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy, December 8, 2022. REUTERS/Yara Nardi/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis greets cardinals as he unexpectedly appears during the Palm Sunday Mass in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 13, 2025. REUTERS/Yara Nardi/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis reacts as he meets migrants during his visit to the Mavrovouni camp for refugees and migrants on the island of Lesbos, Greece, December 5, 2021. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis gives a thumbs up as he arrives for the weekly general audience at the Vatican, May 18, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis walks inside St. Peter's Basilica to lead a private Mass in a side chapel where St. John Paul II is buried to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the late pope's birth on the day of the full reopening of the basilica as the Vatican eases measures put in place during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at the Vatican May 18, 2020. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis prays in front of a candle lit to remember victims of abuse by the church, inside St Mary's Pro Cathedral during his visit to Dublin, Ireland, August 25, 2018. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis presides over the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession on Good Friday, in front of Rome's Colosseum, in Rome, Italy Friday, April 19, 2019. Andrew Medichini/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis poses with Italian police officers during the weekly general audience at the Vatican, November 27, 2019. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A gust of wind blows Pope Francis's skull cap off during his pastoral visit in Alessano, southern Italy, April 20, 2018. REUTERS/Max Rossi/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis kneels before a priest to confess during a penitential liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, March 29, 2019. Andrew Medichini/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis prays in Amatrice, Italy, October 4, 2016. Osservatore Romano/Vatican Media/Handout via Reuters/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY.
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead a mass for the Armed Forces Jubilee in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 30, 2016. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis welcomes a group of Syrian refugees after landing at Ciampino airport in Rome following a visit to the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, April 16, 2016. Filippo Monteforte/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis blesses a child as he visits the refugee camp of Saint Sauveur in Bangui, Central African Republic, November 29, 2015. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo
