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Pope Francis’s first week In his first week, the pontiff visits a basilica in Rome and gives his first Angelus blessing in St. Peter’s Square.
March 14, 2013
Pope Francis arrives for a prayer at Rome’s 5th-century Basilica of St. Mary Major early on his first full day as the head of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.
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March 14, 2013
At the basilica, Pope Francis kneels before the Madonna Protectress of the Roman People icon of the Virgin Mary.
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March 14, 2013
Pope Francis leads Mass at the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. He delivered a strong message to the cardinals who elected him, telling them that “our life is a journey, and if we stop, things don’t go well.”
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March 14, 2013
Pope Francis leads his first homily since becoming pontiff.
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March 14, 2013
Pope Francis delivered his homily in Italian. Vatican watchers had been waiting to see whether the 266th pope would deliver his homily in Latin, consistent with tradition, or in Italian, which would suggest a modesty consistent with the face he has put forward.
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March 14, 2013
The symbolism of his message was hard to miss for a church that is mired in scandal.
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March 14, 2013
The pope greets Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the secretary of state, at the service in the Sistine Chapel.
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March 14, 2013
The pope warned cardinals that when “you don’t pray to Jesus, you pray to the worldliness of the devil.”
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March 14, 2013
But if cardinals are true to the Gospel and profess as the Lord did, he said, “then the church will go forward.”
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March 14, 2013
Pope Francis pays the bill at Rome’s Domus Internationalis Paulus VI hotel, where he stayed as a cardinal before entering the conclave and being elected pope. Pope Francis put his humility on display during his first day as pontiff, stopping by the hotel to pick up his luggage and settle his bill.
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March 15, 2013
Pope Francis prepares to enter his new residence at the Vatican.
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March 15, 2013
Pope Francis stumbles as he prepares to greet cardinals in Sala Clementina at the Vatican. Cardinal Angelo Sodano, left, introduced the pope to the cardinals.
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March 16, 2013
Pope Francis, center, at the Vatican. On Saturday, he called for “a poor church for the poor,” saying he chose his papal name because Saint Francis of Assisi was “a man of poverty and a man of peace.”
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March 16, 2013
Pope Francis prays before a replica of the Grotto of Lourdes at the Vatican Gardens.
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March 16, 2013
Pope Francis passes a Swiss guard as he arrives for an audience at the Paul VI hall in Vatican City.
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March 16, 2013
Archbishop George Gaenswein, prefect of the papal household, accompanies Pope Francis during a meeting with the news media at the Paul VI hall at the Vatican.
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March 16, 2013
Pope Francis’s shoes are understated. His immediate predecessor, Benedict XVI, was known for wearing red loafers.
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March 16, 2013
Pope Francis is projected on a big screen in St. Peter’s Square.
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March 16, 2013
Pope Francis, left, greets the head of the Vatican’s pontifical council for social communications, Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, at the Paul VI hall at the Vatican.
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March 16, 2013
Pope Francis greets a man with a guide dog as he conducts a general audience in the Paul VI hall for the news media.
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March 16, 2013
A woman gives Pope Francis a traditional South American mate drink.
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March 16, 2013
The moon is seen behind a dome of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Pope Francis offered intimate insights Saturday into the moments after his election, telling journalists that he was immediately inspired to take the name of Saint Francis of Assisi because of his work for peace and the poor — and that he himself would like to see “a poor church and a church for the poor.”
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March 17, 2013
Pope Francis greets faithful from a side gate of the Vatican. Pope Francis began his first Sunday as pontiff by making an impromptu appearance before the public, startling passersby and prompting cheers. He then kept up his simple, spontaneous style by delivering a brief, off-the-cuff homily at the Vatican’s tiny parish church. Dressed in a white cassock, Francis waved to the crowd in the street outside St. Anna’s Gate and before entering the church, which serves the Vatican city-state’s hundreds of residents, he shook hands with the parishioners and kissed babies.
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March 17, 2013
Newly elected Pope Francis appears at the window of his private apartment to bless the faithful, who gathered below in St. Peter’s Square, during the Sunday Angelus prayer at the Vatican.
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March 17, 2013
People leave after newly elected Pope Francis appeared at the window of his private apartment to bless the faithful in St. Peter’s Square during the Sunday Angelus prayer at the Vatican.
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March 17, 2013
Newly elected Pope Francis blesses the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square during the Sunday Angelus prayer at the Vatican.
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March 17, 2013
A nun holds her head as Pope Francis gives his first Angelus blessing. The Vatican is preparing for the inauguration of Pope Francis on Tuesday in St. Peter’s Square.
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March 17, 2013
A young man waves a Portuguese flag as he waits for the pope's first Angelus prayer at St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
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March 17, 2013
Pope Francis prays during a Mass at Santa Anna Church at the Vatican.
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March 17, 2013
Pope Francis leads a Mass at the Vatican.
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March 18, 2013
Pope Francis meets Argentine President Cristina Fernandez at the Vatican. The pope has clashed with Fernandez over her socially liberal policies and what he has called the government's totalitarianism.
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