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Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Pope Francis waves to the crowd packed into St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday, May 12, 2013, after leading his first canonization ceremony. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Pope Francis greets the faithful from his popemobile as he leaves St. Peter's Square at the Vatican at the end of his weekly general audience on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Francis also warned nuns gathered from around the world against using their vocations for personal ambition, saying priests and sisters who do so "do more harm to the church." (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) blessing, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday. Francis celebrated his first Easter Sunday Mass as pontiff before joyous pilgrims, tourists and Romans in the square bedecked by spring flowers. (L'Osservatore Romano via the Associated Press)

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Worshippers crowd St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for Easter Mass on Sunday, March 31, 2013, as Pope Francis marked his first Easter as pontiff. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Pope Francis celebrates Palm Sunday Mass, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 24, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Pope Francis waves to a cheering crowd as he rides in the popemobile through St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday, March 24, 2013. The pontiff celebrated his first Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, encouraging people to be humble and young at heart, as tens of thousands joyfully waved olive branches and palm fronds. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)