Topic - Pope Francis

17 December 1936) is Pope of the Catholic Church, a title he holds ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the Vatican City. - Source: Wikipedia

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Pope Francis waves to faithful as he arrives in the Paul VI hall for his the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis meets transgender guests of Rome church

Pope Francis speaks to journalists aboard the papal flight back from Canada Saturday, July 30, 2022, where he paid a six-day pastoral visit. Pope Francis wrapped up his Canadian pilgrimage by meeting with Indigenous delegations and visiting Inuit territory in northern Nunavut. In one of his addresses, he assailed the Catholic missionaries who &quot;supported oppressive and unjust policies&quot; against Native peoples in the country's notorious residential schools and vowed to pursue truth and healing. (Guglielmo Mangiapane/ Pool via AP)

Pope: Canadian residential schools were cultural ‘genocide’

Pope Francis, left, wears a traditional headdress he was given after his apology to Indigenous people during a ceremony in Maskwacis, Alberta, as part of his papal visit across Canada, Monday, July 25, 2022. Pope Francis crisscrossed Canada this week delivering long overdue apologies to the country's Indigenous groups for the decades of abuses and cultural destruction they suffered at Catholic Church-run residential schools. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Pope Francis makes a penitential pilgrimage to Canada

Pope Francis speaks to journalists aboard the papal flight back from Canada Saturday, July 30, 2022, where he paid a six-day pastoral visit. Pope Francis wrapped up his Canadian pilgrimage by meeting with Indigenous delegations and visiting Inuit territory in northern Nunavut. In one of his addresses, he assailed the Catholic missionaries who &quot;supported oppressive and unjust policies&quot; against Native peoples in the country's notorious residential schools and vowed to pursue truth and healing. (Guglielmo Mangiapane/ Pool via AP)

Pope Francis says he’ll slow down or retire: ‘You can change a pope’

Pope Francis looks at a woman wearing a flag with the slogan Every Child Matters&quot; on it at the end of a meeting with Indigenous people in Quebec City on Friday, July 29, 2022, part of his papal visit across Canada (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP)

Pope heads to Nunavut to apologize at end of Canadian tour

FILE - Small boats make their way through the Frobisher Bay inlet in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. In his extensive papal travels, Pope Francis has never journeyed further north than Iqaluit, the capital city of the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut in northern Canada. On Friday, July 28, 2022, it will be the third and final stop of the pope's six-day Canadian visit, focused on apologies for abuses of Indigenous youths at Catholic-run boarding schools.(Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Pope ends Canadian visit with stop in small, far-north city

A woman walks by Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, on April 10, 2020. Pope Francis arrives in Quebec on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at a time when many French Canadians in the province are not only moving away from religion but explicitly rejecting it, embracing secularization long after their forebears built their identify on the rock of the Catholic Church. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Pope in Quebec amid decline of Catholic Church in province

Illustration on the prohibition of Latin Mass by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

‘Woke’ Pope Francis bans ‘divisive’ Latin Mass

Pope Francis is wheeled beside Indigenous chiefs after visiting the Ermineskin Cree Nation Cemetery in Maskwacis, Alberta, during his papal visit across Canada on Monday, July 25, 2022. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Pope Francis apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, July 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope seeks prayers for his ‘penitential’ Canadian pilgrimage

FILE - Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with members of the Neocatechumenal Way community, in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, on June 27, 2022. On Thursday, July 14, 2022, Pope Francis told members of three religious orders that they must have “zero tolerance” for sexual abusers in their ranks and that they must report them to protect others. Francis begged them not to cover up the reality of clergy sexual abuse since their obligations were to protect others. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Pope tells religious orders to report abuse, protect others

Pope Francis givers his thumbs up as he leaves after the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope denies resignation rumors, hopes to visit Kyiv, Moscow

Pope Francis delivers his blessing at the end of a mass for the Congolese community he presided in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope, unable to go to Congo, embraces Congolese in Rome

Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020, in Washington. Musk will participate in a meeting with employees of Twitter on Thursday, June 16, 2022, as the billionaire and social media platform continue to try to push forward on their agreed-to $44 billion acquisition. Twitter confirmed on Tuesday that the meeting will take place, but did not provide any other details about it. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Musk meets pope, uses Twitter to announce the audience

Pope Francis holds the crucifix as he celebrates a Mass on the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis urges Congo, South Sudan to work for peace, prosperity

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