Pope vows to 'embrace poorest' at grand inauguration
- Published: 19 Mar 2013 at 15.49
- Online news: World
Pope Francis donned the symbols of papal power and vowed to embrace the "poorest" of humanity on Tuesday at a grand inauguration in the Vatican as leader of a troubled Roman Catholic Church.
Pope Francis waves during his inauguration mass at St Peter's Square, on March 19, 2013. Pope Francis donned the symbols of papal power and vowed to embrace the "poorest" of humanity on Tuesday at a grand inauguration in the Vatican as leader of a troubled Roman Catholic Church.
Some 200,000 pilgrims cheered Latin America's first pope in St Peter's Square, as Francis promised a "lowly, concrete and faithful" papacy.
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