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FILE - The then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, second left, now Pope Francis, travels on the subway in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in this 2008 file photo. (AP Photo/Pablo Leguizamon, File)
FILE - Pope Francis waves to the crowd during a procession, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool, File)
FILE - Pope Francis presides over the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession on Good Friday, a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary, in front of Rome's Colosseum, in Rome, Friday, April 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter's Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
FILE - Pope Francis is presented with a cake by Valentina Alazraki, correspondent for TeleVisa Univision, to celebrate his upcoming Dec. 17, 88th birthday, on the flight back to Rome at the end of his one-day visit to Ajaccio in the French island of Corsica, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool, File)
FILE - Pope Francis kneels before a priest to confess, during a penitential liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool, File)
FILE - Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, left, and Pope Francis meet, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, in front of a gigantic statue of former Khagan of the Mongol Empire Genghis Khan in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
FILE - Pope Francis drinks from a mate gourd at the end of his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on April 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis twirls a soccer ball he was presented by a member of the Circus of Cuba, during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
Pope Francis and Scholas Occurrentes' President Jose Maria Del Corral, left, look at Newell's Old Boys captain, Argentine midfielder Maxi Rodriguez juggling a soccer ball at the launch of the 'Scholas Occurrentes' (Latin for, schools of meeting) international educational movement at the pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
FILE - Pope Francis meets Spider-Man, who presents him with his mask, at the end of his weekly general audience with a limited number of faithful in the San Damaso Courtyard at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
The Christ the Redeemer statue is lit up with an image of Pope Francis to mark the launch of his book, "Life: My Story Through History," in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)
FILE - A seagull flies in front of Pope Francis as he speaks to the faithful gathered under pouring rain in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican for the traditional Sunday's noon blessing after the Angelus prayer, Sunday, June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis gestures as he attends an annual gathering of pro-family organisations at the Auditorium della Conciliazione, in Rome, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis asperses holy water as he celebrates Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis waves to local residents as he drives to St. Joseph The Worker Catholic Church in the Kangemi slum of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, Nov. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)
FILE - Pope Francis greets a group of Mexican pilgrims in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican during his weekly general audience, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Argentine soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona, left, greets Pope Francis in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Sept. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Pope Francis, second from left, looks at traditional dancers performing at the Martyrs' Stadium In Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis passes a portrait of himself as he arrives to meet youths in Santo Tomas University in Manila, Philippines, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis consoles Serena Subania who lost her daughter Angelica, 5 years old, the day before as he leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital after receiving treatment for a bronchitis, in Rome, Saturday, April 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis greets a child as he walks in procession at the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe before celebrating Mass in Mexico City, Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
A priest holds a sacrament bowl showing a photograph of Pope Francis at a Holy Mass at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron, right, shakes hands with and goes to hug Pope Francis at the end of their private audience, at the Vatican, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (Alessandra Tarantino/Pool, file)
FILE - Pope Francis, right, talks with Israeli President Shimon Peres, during an official arrival ceremony at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
FILE - Pope Francis, right, hugs Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI prior to the start of a meeting with elderly faithful in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sept. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - US President Barack Obama meets with Pope Francis, Thursday, March 27, 2014 at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
FILE - Pope Francis meets Russian President Vladimir Putin on the occasion of a private audience at the Vatican, June 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool, File)
FILE - President Barack Obama and Pope Francis walk down the Colonnade before meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)
FILE - Pope Francis tries to catch his cap as wind blows it away while arriving for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
FILE - Pope Francis wears a traditional Mexican sombrero hat he received as a gift by a Mexican journalist aboard the plane during the flight from Rome to Habana, Cuba, on his way to a week-long trip to Mexico, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016. (Alessandro Di Meo/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - Pope Francis, seen with a bruise on his head after he banged it on the popemobile when it stopped short amid swarms of well-wishers, talks to journalists during a press conference he held on board the flight to Rome, at the end of a five-day visit to Colombia, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, pool, file)
FILE - Pope Francis helped to get on his car at the end of weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis walks through the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, July 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis listens to applause before addressing a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, making history as the first pontiff to do so, on Sept. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
Ivanka Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and President Donald Trump stand with Pope Francis during a meeting, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
FILE - Pope Francis prays at Israel's separation barrier on his way to a mass in Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, file)
FILE - Pope Francis prays as he holds an envelope before placing it in on of the cracks between the stones of the Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, in the old city of Jerusalem, Israel, Monday, May 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool, file)
FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2009 file photo, Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio gives a Mass outside the San Cayetano church where an Argentine flag hangs behind in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, file)
FILE - Pope Francis holds a baby as he leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis leaves after celebrating the Palm Sunday's mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 2, 2023, a day after being discharged from the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, where he has been treated for bronchitis. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Flanked by Panama's President Juan Carlos Varela, right, and first lady Lorena Castillo, Pope Francis arrives at the foreign ministry headquarters Palacio Bolivar, in Panama City, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis holds the pastoral staff as he leaves after celebrating a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, to mark Epiphany, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis speaks to journalists during the papal flight direct to Rio de Janeiro, Monday, July 22, 2013. (Luca Zennaro/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - Pope Francis presides the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession celebrated in front of the Colosseum on Good Friday in Rome, Friday, March 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
FILE - Pope Francis speaks to the faithful at the end of a mass in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Sunday, April 6, 2025, part of the jubilee of the sick and the health workers. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
FILE - Pope Francis gives the thumbs up as he appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he has been treated for bronchitis and bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)
FILE - Pope Francis attends an interreligious meeting with young people at the Catholic Junior College in Singapore, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - 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, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis is helped by Vatican Master of Ceremonies, Bishop Diego Giovanni Ravelli, left, as he arrives for a mass in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican on New Year's Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
FILE - Pope Francis exchanges his skull cap with one presented by a participant in the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis waves faithful after celebrating Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis kisses a baby as he arrives for his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis, center, sits as the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is carried in St. Peter's Square for his funeral mass, at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis blows a candle on a cake as he celebrates his 87th birthday with children assisted by the Santa Marta dispensary during an audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis gestures as he attends an annual gathering of pro-family organisations at the Auditorium della Conciliazione, in Rome, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis meets a man wearing a Spider-Man costume, who presented him with his mask, at the end of his weekly general audience with a limited number of faithful in the San Damaso Courtyard at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Argentine soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona, left, greets Pope Francis in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Pope Francis twirls a soccer ball he was presented by a member of the Circus of Cuba, during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis, right, talks with Israeli President Shimon Peres, during an official arrival ceremony at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, file)
FILE - Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience with a limited number of faithful in the San Damaso Courtyard at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis wears a plaster and has a bruised, black left eye and a cut on his eyebrow as he talks to journalists during a press conference on board the flight to Rome, at the end of a five-day visit to Colombia, where he banged his head on his popemobile when it stopped short amid swarms of well-wishers and he lost his balance, having only had a hip-high bar to hold onto, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, pool, file)
FILE - Pope Francis consoles Serena Subania who lost her daughter Angelica, 5 years old, the day before, as he leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, Saturday, April 1, 2023 after receiving treatment for a bronchitis. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Pope Francis drinks from a mate gourd, a traditional South American cup, at the end of his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis greets people as he arrives at a lunch for the poor, homeless, migrants and unemployed, at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
File - Pope Francis and Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi meet at the International Convention Centre of Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis walks next to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the occasion of their private audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool, file)
FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron, right, shakes hands with and goes to hug Pope Francis at the end of their private audience, at the Vatican, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (Alessandra Tarantino/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - US President Barack Obama, left, meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Thursday, March 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
FILE - Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, left, and Pope Francis meet in front of a gigantic statue of former Khagan of the Mongol Empire Genghis Khan in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
FILE - Pope Francis puts on an indigenous headdress during a meeting with Indigenous communities, including First Nations, Metis and Inuit, at Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church in Maskwacis, near Edmonton, Canada, Monday, July 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Pope Francis dons a Mexican charro style sombrero, in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Christian Palma, file)
FILE - Flanked by Panama's President Juan Carlos Varela, right, and first lady Lorena Castillo, Pope Francis arrives at the foreign ministry headquarters Palacio Bolivar, in Panama City, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis lays a wreath as Israel's President Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stand at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israel, Monday, May 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, file)
FILE - US Vice President Joe Biden, second from right at top, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and others applaud Pope Francis as he arrives to address a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, making history as the first pontiff to do so, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)
FILE - Pope Francis is greeted by young children in traditional clothes upon his arrival at Yangon's airport, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis waves to well wishers as he leaves after a meeting at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the capital Maputo, Mozambique, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)
FILE - Pope Francis waves from the popemobile after arriving to El Alto International airport in El Alto, Bolivia, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, file)
FILE - Pope Francis blesses faithfuls as he arrives to celebrate the Mass of Assumption of Mary at Daejeon World Cup stadium in Daejeon, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis waves to local residents as he drives to St. Joseph The Worker Catholic Church in the Kangemi slum of Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Nov. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)
FILE - Pope Francis waves to faithful as he is driven through the crowd during his visit to the island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, Monday July 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis, surrounded by shells of destroyed churches, leads a prayer for the victims of war at Hosh al-Bieaa Church Square, in Mosul, Iraq, once the de-facto capital of IS, Sunday, March 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis prepares to deliver a speech during a meeting at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis waves from the popemobile as he rides along the Copacabana beachfront on his way to celebrate mass for World Youth Day, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)
FILE - Pope Francis prays in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, May 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, file)
FILE - Pope Francis prays at Israel's separation barrier on his way to a mass in Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Sunday, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, file)
FILE - Pope Francis walks through the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, July 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis arrives for his annual Christmas visit to venerate a statue of the Virgin Mary near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Pope Francis, wearing a protective face mask to help curb the diffusion of COVID-19, leaves at the end of his weekly open-air general audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, file)
file - Pope Francis smiles after celebrating Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis pauses during an interview with The Associated Press at The Vatican, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)
FILE - Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio gives a Mass outside the San Cayetano church where an Argentine flag hangs behind in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, file)
FILE - Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who chose the name of Pope Francis, waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after being elected 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday May 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
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FILE - Pope Francis is presented with a cake by Valentina Alazraki, correspondent for TeleVisa Univision, to celebrate his upcoming Dec. 17, 88th birthday, on the flight back to Rome at the end of his one-day visit to Ajaccio in the French island of Corsica, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool, File)
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FILE - The then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, second left, now Pope Francis, travels on the subway in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in this 2008 file photo. (AP Photo/Pablo Leguizamon, File)
FILE - Pope Francis waves to the crowd during a procession, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool, File)
FILE - Pope Francis presides over the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession on Good Friday, a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary, in front of Rome's Colosseum, in Rome, Friday, April 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter's Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
FILE - Pope Francis is presented with a cake by Valentina Alazraki, correspondent for TeleVisa Univision, to celebrate his upcoming Dec. 17, 88th birthday, on the flight back to Rome at the end of his one-day visit to Ajaccio in the French island of Corsica, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool, File)
FILE - Pope Francis kneels before a priest to confess, during a penitential liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool, File)
FILE - Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, left, and Pope Francis meet, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, in front of a gigantic statue of former Khagan of the Mongol Empire Genghis Khan in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
FILE - Pope Francis drinks from a mate gourd at the end of his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on April 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis twirls a soccer ball he was presented by a member of the Circus of Cuba, during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
Pope Francis and Scholas Occurrentes' President Jose Maria Del Corral, left, look at Newell's Old Boys captain, Argentine midfielder Maxi Rodriguez juggling a soccer ball at the launch of the 'Scholas Occurrentes' (Latin for, schools of meeting) international educational movement at the pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
FILE - Pope Francis meets Spider-Man, who presents him with his mask, at the end of his weekly general audience with a limited number of faithful in the San Damaso Courtyard at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
The Christ the Redeemer statue is lit up with an image of Pope Francis to mark the launch of his book, "Life: My Story Through History," in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)
FILE - A seagull flies in front of Pope Francis as he speaks to the faithful gathered under pouring rain in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican for the traditional Sunday's noon blessing after the Angelus prayer, Sunday, June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis gestures as he attends an annual gathering of pro-family organisations at the Auditorium della Conciliazione, in Rome, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis asperses holy water as he celebrates Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis waves to local residents as he drives to St. Joseph The Worker Catholic Church in the Kangemi slum of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, Nov. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)
FILE - Pope Francis greets a group of Mexican pilgrims in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican during his weekly general audience, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Argentine soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona, left, greets Pope Francis in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Sept. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Pope Francis, second from left, looks at traditional dancers performing at the Martyrs' Stadium In Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis passes a portrait of himself as he arrives to meet youths in Santo Tomas University in Manila, Philippines, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis consoles Serena Subania who lost her daughter Angelica, 5 years old, the day before as he leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital after receiving treatment for a bronchitis, in Rome, Saturday, April 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis greets a child as he walks in procession at the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe before celebrating Mass in Mexico City, Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
A priest holds a sacrament bowl showing a photograph of Pope Francis at a Holy Mass at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron, right, shakes hands with and goes to hug Pope Francis at the end of their private audience, at the Vatican, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (Alessandra Tarantino/Pool, file)
FILE - Pope Francis, right, talks with Israeli President Shimon Peres, during an official arrival ceremony at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
FILE - Pope Francis, right, hugs Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI prior to the start of a meeting with elderly faithful in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sept. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - US President Barack Obama meets with Pope Francis, Thursday, March 27, 2014 at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
FILE - Pope Francis meets Russian President Vladimir Putin on the occasion of a private audience at the Vatican, June 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool, File)
FILE - President Barack Obama and Pope Francis walk down the Colonnade before meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)
FILE - Pope Francis tries to catch his cap as wind blows it away while arriving for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
FILE - Pope Francis wears a traditional Mexican sombrero hat he received as a gift by a Mexican journalist aboard the plane during the flight from Rome to Habana, Cuba, on his way to a week-long trip to Mexico, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016. (Alessandro Di Meo/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - Pope Francis, seen with a bruise on his head after he banged it on the popemobile when it stopped short amid swarms of well-wishers, talks to journalists during a press conference he held on board the flight to Rome, at the end of a five-day visit to Colombia, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, pool, file)
FILE - Pope Francis helped to get on his car at the end of weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis walks through the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, July 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis listens to applause before addressing a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, making history as the first pontiff to do so, on Sept. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
Ivanka Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and President Donald Trump stand with Pope Francis during a meeting, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
FILE - Pope Francis prays at Israel's separation barrier on his way to a mass in Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, file)
FILE - Pope Francis prays as he holds an envelope before placing it in on of the cracks between the stones of the Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, in the old city of Jerusalem, Israel, Monday, May 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool, file)
FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2009 file photo, Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio gives a Mass outside the San Cayetano church where an Argentine flag hangs behind in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, file)
FILE - Pope Francis holds a baby as he leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis leaves after celebrating the Palm Sunday's mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 2, 2023, a day after being discharged from the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, where he has been treated for bronchitis. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Flanked by Panama's President Juan Carlos Varela, right, and first lady Lorena Castillo, Pope Francis arrives at the foreign ministry headquarters Palacio Bolivar, in Panama City, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis holds the pastoral staff as he leaves after celebrating a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, to mark Epiphany, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis speaks to journalists during the papal flight direct to Rio de Janeiro, Monday, July 22, 2013. (Luca Zennaro/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - Pope Francis presides the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession celebrated in front of the Colosseum on Good Friday in Rome, Friday, March 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
FILE - Pope Francis speaks to the faithful at the end of a mass in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Sunday, April 6, 2025, part of the jubilee of the sick and the health workers. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
FILE - Pope Francis gives the thumbs up as he appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he has been treated for bronchitis and bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)
FILE - Pope Francis attends an interreligious meeting with young people at the Catholic Junior College in Singapore, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - 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, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis is helped by Vatican Master of Ceremonies, Bishop Diego Giovanni Ravelli, left, as he arrives for a mass in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican on New Year's Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
FILE - Pope Francis exchanges his skull cap with one presented by a participant in the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis waves faithful after celebrating Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis kisses a baby as he arrives for his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis, center, sits as the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is carried in St. Peter's Square for his funeral mass, at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis blows a candle on a cake as he celebrates his 87th birthday with children assisted by the Santa Marta dispensary during an audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis gestures as he attends an annual gathering of pro-family organisations at the Auditorium della Conciliazione, in Rome, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - Pope Francis meets a man wearing a Spider-Man costume, who presented him with his mask, at the end of his weekly general audience with a limited number of faithful in the San Damaso Courtyard at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Argentine soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona, left, greets Pope Francis in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Pope Francis twirls a soccer ball he was presented by a member of the Circus of Cuba, during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis, right, talks with Israeli President Shimon Peres, during an official arrival ceremony at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, file)
FILE - Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience with a limited number of faithful in the San Damaso Courtyard at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis wears a plaster and has a bruised, black left eye and a cut on his eyebrow as he talks to journalists during a press conference on board the flight to Rome, at the end of a five-day visit to Colombia, where he banged his head on his popemobile when it stopped short amid swarms of well-wishers and he lost his balance, having only had a hip-high bar to hold onto, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, pool, file)
FILE - Pope Francis consoles Serena Subania who lost her daughter Angelica, 5 years old, the day before, as he leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, Saturday, April 1, 2023 after receiving treatment for a bronchitis. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Pope Francis drinks from a mate gourd, a traditional South American cup, at the end of his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis greets people as he arrives at a lunch for the poor, homeless, migrants and unemployed, at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
File - Pope Francis and Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi meet at the International Convention Centre of Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis walks next to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the occasion of their private audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool, file)
FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron, right, shakes hands with and goes to hug Pope Francis at the end of their private audience, at the Vatican, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (Alessandra Tarantino/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - US President Barack Obama, left, meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Thursday, March 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
FILE - Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, left, and Pope Francis meet in front of a gigantic statue of former Khagan of the Mongol Empire Genghis Khan in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
FILE - Pope Francis puts on an indigenous headdress during a meeting with Indigenous communities, including First Nations, Metis and Inuit, at Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church in Maskwacis, near Edmonton, Canada, Monday, July 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Pope Francis dons a Mexican charro style sombrero, in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Christian Palma, file)
FILE - Flanked by Panama's President Juan Carlos Varela, right, and first lady Lorena Castillo, Pope Francis arrives at the foreign ministry headquarters Palacio Bolivar, in Panama City, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis lays a wreath as Israel's President Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stand at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israel, Monday, May 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, file)
FILE - US Vice President Joe Biden, second from right at top, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and others applaud Pope Francis as he arrives to address a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, making history as the first pontiff to do so, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)
FILE - Pope Francis is greeted by young children in traditional clothes upon his arrival at Yangon's airport, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis waves to well wishers as he leaves after a meeting at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the capital Maputo, Mozambique, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)
FILE - Pope Francis waves from the popemobile after arriving to El Alto International airport in El Alto, Bolivia, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, file)
FILE - Pope Francis blesses faithfuls as he arrives to celebrate the Mass of Assumption of Mary at Daejeon World Cup stadium in Daejeon, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis waves to local residents as he drives to St. Joseph The Worker Catholic Church in the Kangemi slum of Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Nov. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)
FILE - Pope Francis waves to faithful as he is driven through the crowd during his visit to the island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, Monday July 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
FILE - Pope Francis, surrounded by shells of destroyed churches, leads a prayer for the victims of war at Hosh al-Bieaa Church Square, in Mosul, Iraq, once the de-facto capital of IS, Sunday, March 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis prepares to deliver a speech during a meeting at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis waves from the popemobile as he rides along the Copacabana beachfront on his way to celebrate mass for World Youth Day, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)
FILE - Pope Francis prays in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, May 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, file)
FILE - Pope Francis prays at Israel's separation barrier on his way to a mass in Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Sunday, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, file)
FILE - Pope Francis walks through the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, July 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis arrives for his annual Christmas visit to venerate a statue of the Virgin Mary near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Pope Francis, wearing a protective face mask to help curb the diffusion of COVID-19, leaves at the end of his weekly open-air general audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, file)
file - Pope Francis smiles after celebrating Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Pope Francis pauses during an interview with The Associated Press at The Vatican, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)
FILE - Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio gives a Mass outside the San Cayetano church where an Argentine flag hangs behind in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, file)
FILE - Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who chose the name of Pope Francis, waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after being elected 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
