Legacy of Pope Francis

Pope Francis greets a blind woman after blessing her as he toured around the Plaza de Armas in Trujillo, Peru, on Jan. 20, 2018. Francis consoled Peruvians who lost their homes and livelihoods in devastating floods last year, telling them Saturday they can overcome all of life’s “storms” by coming together as a community and stamping out the violence that plagues this part of the country. (Vincenzo Pinto/Pool Photo via AP)

People wave balloons in front of Pope Francis as he is driven through the crowd ahead of his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

In this Sept. 26, 2015, file photo, Pope Francis rides in the popemobile along Independence Mall before delivering a speech outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Amid the whirlwind came an historic visit in 2015. Pope Francis attracted throngs during a two-day trip in September. Many pilgrims were thrilled to see him celebrate an outdoor Mass and hear his remarks on immigration and religious liberty at Independence Hall. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A man reads an extra edition of a newspaper with the announcement of the election of Argentina’s cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new Pope Francis I on March 13, 2013 in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia, announcing the election of Argentina’s cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as new Pope. Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis I on Wednesday, becoming the church’s first Latin American pontiff after a conclave to elect a leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. AFP PHOTO / LUIS ROBAYO (Photo credit should read LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images)

VATICAN CITY, VATICAN – MARCH 13: Newly elected Pope Francis I waves to the waiting crowd from the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica on March 13, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican. Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as the 266th Pontiff and will lead the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Pope Francis passes by remains of migrants boats as he waves upon arrival during his visit to the island of Lampedusa, a key destination of tens of thousands of would-be immigrants from Africa, on July 8, 2013. Pope Francis called for an end to “indifference” to the plight of refugees on Monday on a visit to an Italian island where tens of thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle East first reach Europe. AFP PHOTO / MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO (Photo credit should read MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO/AFP via Getty Images)

TOPSHOT – Pope Francis rides through Santiago de Cuba, in eastern Cuba, towards to airport on September 22, 2015. Pope Francis left Cuba Tuesday for his first-ever visit to the United States, where he may get a slightly chillier reception in some quarters than on the Caribbean island. Cuban President Raul Castro saw him off at the airport after a four-day visit that featured three cities, three masses, countless handshakes with adoring crowds, and meetings with both Castro and his big brother Fidel, the men who have ruled the communist island since its 1959 revolution. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ALEJANDRO ERNESTO (Photo by ALEJANDRO ERNESTO / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALEJANDRO ERNESTO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

People hold copies of Pope Francis’s encyclical, a collection of principles to guide Catholic teaching, entitled “Laudato Si ” during its official presentation, on June 18, 2015 at the Sinod hall at the Vatican. Pope Francis calls on the world’s leaders to pull together to fight global warming, publishing his hotly-anticipated thesis on the environment which slams profiteers and slaves to progress. Released six months ahead of a key climate change meeting in Paris, Francis’s text calls on international actors to take responsibility for “new modes of production, distribution and consumption”, according to a leaked draft. AFP PHOTO / VINCENZO PINTO (Photo credit should read VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images)

VATICAN CITY, VATICAN – JANUARY 22: Pope Francis waves to the crowds as he arrives in St. Peter’s square for his weekly audience on January 22, 2014 in Vatican City, Vatican. Pope Francis devoted the catechetical portion of his weekly General Audience to the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The main reflection delivered by Pope Francis in Italian, said, ‘We know that Christ has not been divided; yet we must sincerely recognize that our communities continue to experience divisions which are a source of scandal and weaken our witness to the Gospel.’ (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

VATICAN CITY, VATICAN – MARCH 19: Pope Francis drives through the crowds during the Inauguration Mass for the Pope in St Peter’s Square on March 19, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican. The mass is being held in front of an expected crowd of up to one million pilgrims and faithful who have filled the square and the surrounding streets to see the former Cardinal of Buenos Aires officially take up his role as pontiff. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

TOPSHOT – Pope Francis (C) releases a dove as a symbol of peace during a meeting with Chaldean community at the Catholic Church of St Simon Bar Sabbae in Tbilisi, on September 30, 2016. Pope Francis set off on September 30 for Georgia and Azerbaijan on what Vatican officials billed as a mission to promote peace in a troubled part of the world, three months after he visited neighbouring Armenia. (Photo by VINCENZO PINTO / AFP) (Photo by VINCENZO PINTO-/AFP via Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 23: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Pope Francis (L) walk through the colonnade prior to an Oval Office meeting at the White House on September 23, 2015 in Washington, DC. The Pope begins his first trip to the United States at the White House followed by a visit to St. Matthew’s Cathedral, and will then hold a Mass on the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 24: Pope Francis addresses a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2015 in Washington, DC. Pope Francis is the first pope to address a joint meeting of Congress and will finish his tour of Washington later today before traveling to New York City. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Pope Francis visits the children of the Blessed Laszlo Batthyany-Strattmann Institute during his apostolic journey in Budapest, Hungary, April 29, 2023. – The Pope will meet refugees, believers, students, church and state leaders during his tree-day trip and celebrates a holy mass in front of the parliament building, at the Kossuth Square of Budapest on Sunday morning, April 30, 2023. (Photo by REMO CASILLI / POOL / AFP) (Photo by REMO CASILLI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Pope Francis (L) prays as a Jewish Rabbi looks on at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, in Jerusalem’s Old City on May 26, 2014. Pope Francis faces a diplomatic high-wire act as he visits sacred Muslim and Jewish sites in Jerusalem on the final day of his Middle East tour AFP PHOTO/ VINCENZO PINTO (Photo credit should read VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images)

MASKWACIS, AB – JULY 25: Pope Francis prays during a pause in the Ermineskin Cemetery during his visit on July 25, 2022 in Maskwacis, Canada. The Pope is touring Canada, meeting with Indigenous communities and community leaders in an effort to reconcile the harmful legacy of the church’s role in Canada’s residential schools. (Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images)

Pope Francis prays during his visit to the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, July 29, 2016. Pope Francis paid a somber visit to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Friday, becoming the third consecutive pontiff to make the pilgrimage to the place where Adolf Hitler’s forces killed more than 1 million people, most of them Jews. (L’Osservatore Romano /Pool Photo via AP)

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – MAY 26: (ISRAEL OUT) In this handout provided by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Pope Francis visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Ministrer Benjamin Netanyahu, on May 26, 2014 in Jerusalem, Israel. Pope Francis arrived in Israel on Sunday afternoon, a day after landing in the Middle East for his first visit to the Holy Land. During his visit to the West Bank the Pontiff addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as “unacceptable” and urged both sides to find courage in seeking a peaceful solution. (Photo by Amos Ben Gershom – GPO /Getty Images)

Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio who chose the name of Francis is the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)