Then the Pope stood up from a wheelchair and waved to the cheering crowd from the balcony of St Peter's Basilica, saying: "Dear brothers and sisters, merry Easter".
Earlier on Sunday, the head of the Catholic Church met with U.S. vice president J.D. Vance.Pope Francis was discharged from the infirmary in March after 5 weeks of treatment of infection, which led to bilateral pneumonia.The Pope was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, in 1936. Priestly ordination was accepted in the late 1960s and in 1998 became Archbishop of Buenos Aires.
In 2001, Pope John Paul II elevated him to Cardinal's dignity. During his 12-year pontificate, Francis portrayed himself as a critic of capitalism and globalisation and a defender of the mediocre and the injured.
He criticized extravagance and privileges in the Vatican, calling on cardinals and priests to show humility.The Pope repeatedly called on the global community to implement reforms to combat climate change and called possession of atomic weapons "immoral."His attempts to make the Catholic Church more inclusive caused controversy, and the Pope said in 2023 that "being homosexual is not a crime".
Early this year Francis allowed homosexual men to become priests in Italy.
He besides encouraged women to execute crucial decision-making roles in the Church.Pope Francis besides tried to address the issue of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy, although there are conflicting opinions on the effectiveness of his efforts.He worked to improve the relation between the Catholic Church and another spiritual religions, visiting the Arabian and Iraqi Peninsulas, and besides gathering the Orthodox patriarch Cyril in 2016, during the first specified event.
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