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Pope Francis announced on May 20 that he will hold a meeting of the Church's top council to appoint 14 new cardinals next month, including from Iraq, Pakistan, Madagascar and Japan.

Pope Francis retired to spiritual seclusion outside the Vatican. 

He will take part in the so-called "Spiritual Exercises" with Cardinals and other high-ranking members of the Roman Curia - the administrative apparatus of the Holy See.

Pope Francis urged Catholics to be hospitable to migrants, saying "there is no Christian joy when the doors are closed," DPA reported.
 

When Pope Francis goes to South America this week, he will meet with indigenous tribes in Chile and visit the native people in the Amazon in Peru, a first for any pontiff, according to ABC news. 

But the trip, the 22nd foreign trip during his tenure, could be overshadowed by security concerns, protests and church-related scandals.

Pope Francis got the keys to a fancy new Lamborghini on yesterday - but he won’t be tooling around the Vatican gardens in it.

Pope Francis may have been given a Lamborghini, but he won't be driving it, reported The Local - Italy. 

The pontiff plans to auction his new Lamborghini Huracan - painted especially for him in papal gold and white - to raise money for charity.

Francis received the Italian supercar on Wednesday morning in a ceremony in Vatican City.

Pope Francis addressed the believers as well as bishops, priests and pilgrims calling for putting away smartphones in their pockets and no longer photograph during a liturgy, which he said was "not a spectacle," AFP reports.

Sometimes it seems the All Mighty is not listening to his “representative” on earth. A windy day in the Vatican on Wednesday caused Pope Francis’s mantle to cover his face before a general audience in Saint Peter’s square. The moments were caught on camera by Reuters.

photos courtesy of Max Rossi, Tony Gentile, Steffano Rellandini, Allesandro Bianchi /Reuters 

In a news conference on Tuesday aboard a papal flight from Sweden back to Rome, Pope Francis declared that the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching that women cannot be ordained as priests is likely to remain in place forever.

Pope Francis personally stopped the canonization of Croatian Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac after a letter sent to him by Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej.

This has been stated by former Croatian Ambassador to the Vatican Filip Vucak.