Pope Francis has gone “to the peripheries,” creating cardinals from 50 different nations, but Europe still accounts for more than 40 percent of electors in the College of Cardinals.
In his usual weekly audience in St. Peter's Square on Wednesday, Pope Francis gave a ride in the popemobile to eight migrant Libyan children who recently arrived in Italy. The pope made this public gesture as an act of solidarity with those who are on society's margins.