Pope Francis visits with journalists during a flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 22, 2013, just months after becoming the Catholic Church's first pontiff from the Americas. #

Argentina's Jorge Mario Bergoglio, elected Pope Francis I, waves from the window of St. Peter's Basilica's balcony after being elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on March 13, 2013, at the Vatican. #

The faithful greet Pope Francis and take photos of him with their phone upon his arrival for the weekly general audience on January 9, 2019, at the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. #

Hundreds of thousands of people crowd Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, on July 28, 2013, as Pope Francis celebrates the final Mass of his visit to Brazil. Throngs of pilgrims attending World Youth Day spent the night on the beach before Sunday's final Mass; the city's mayor said he expected up to 3 million people to pack the beach for the occasion. #

Pope Francis twirls a soccer ball that was presented to him by a member of the Circus of Cuba, during his weekly general audience in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall, on January 2, 2019. #

Handheld candles burn in the background as Pope Francis touches the figure representing Our Lady of Fatima during his visit to the Chapel of the Apparitions at the Shrine of Fatima, in Fatima, Portugal, on May 12, 2017. #

Pope Francis consoles Serena Subania, who lost her daughter, 5-year-old Angelica, the day before, as he leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, on April 1, 2023, after receiving treatment for bronchitis. #

Pope Francis walks through Auschwitz's notorious gate with its sign reading "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work sets you free") during his visit to the former Nazi death camp, in Poland, on July 29, 2016. #

Pope Francis is cheered by the crowd as he arrives for an audience with members of the Association of Italian Catholic Guides and Scouts in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on June 13, 2015. #

Pope Francis celebrates the traditional rite of the washing of feet at the Casal del Marmo juvenile penitentiary on April 6, 2023, in Rome, Italy. On Holy Thursday, Pope Francis went to the outskirts of Rome to celebrate the Mass of the Lord's Supper at the penitentiary, where he washed the feet of 12 young people there. #

Pope Francis delivers an extraordinary “Urbi et Orbi” (“To the City and to the World”) blessing—normally given only at Christmas and Easter—from an empty St. Peter’s Square, as a response to the global coronavirus outbreak, at the Vatican, on March 27, 2020. #

Pope Francis meets with residential-school alumni at Nakasuk Elementary School Square in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, on July 29, 2022. The pope flew to the Canadian Arctic to meet Inuit survivors of Catholic-run schools where Indigenous children were abused over a span of decades, in the final stop of a landmark tour apologizing for the Church's role. #

Pope Francis meets with Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, as he arrives at the G7 leaders' summit on day two of the 50th G7 summit at Borgo Egnazia, in Fasano, Italy, on June 14, 2024. #