Photos: Pope Francis through the years

Pope Francis meets with Vice President JD Vance at the Vatican on Sunday.

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter's Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday.

Pope Francis tours St. Peter's Square in his popemobile after bestowing the Urbi et Orbi in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday.

Pope Francis arrives at the end of Mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican on April 13.

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican on Feb. 5.

Pope Francis is interviewed by The Associated Press on Jan. 24, 2023.

Pope Francis dons an Indigenous headdress during a meeting with Indigenous communities in Maskwacis, near Edmonton, Canada, in 2022.

President Joe Biden and Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2021.

Pope Francis and President Donald Trump at the Vatican on May 24, 2017.

Pope Francis twirls a soccer ball during his general audience at the Vatican on Jan. 2, 2019.

Pope Francis meets with President Donald Trump at the Vatican on May 24, 2017.

Pope Francis celebrates his 81st birthday during a private audience with children at the Vatican in 2017.

Pope Francis greets the faithful as he goes through Central Park in 2015.

Pope Francis and Cardinal Timothy Dolan during the evening prayer at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York in 2015.

Escorted by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Pope Francis greets the hundreds of faithful who gathered to see him off at Kennedy Airport in 2015.

Pope Francis stops to say a prayer at the edge of the South Tower Memorial Pool at the September 11 Memorial in 2015.

Pope Francis arrives at St. Patrick's Cathedral in 2015.

Pope Francis visits the Historic Exhibition hall of the 9/11 Museum Memorial in 2015 with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Pope Francis visits the 9/11 Museum in 2015.

Pope Francis arrives in his car for a visit to Our Lady Queen of Angels School in Harlem in 2015.

Pope Francis and then-Bolivian President Evo Morales wear traditional hats during the second World Meeting of Popular Movements in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on July 9, 2015.

Pope Francis addresses the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2015.

Pope Francis addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2015.

An undated photo of Pope Francis, who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

An undated photo of Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as a teenager in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Pope Francis prays at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel on May 26, 2014.

Pope Francis and President Barack Obama exchange gifts on March 27, 2014, at the Vatican.

Pope Francis hugs Dominic Gondreau, 8, after the pope celebrated his first Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square on March 31, 2013.

Weeks after being elected pope, Francis greets the faithful in St. Peter's Square.

Pope Francis, then known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, prays at a Mass in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Oct 27, 2010.

Pope John Paul II names Jorge Mario Bergoglio as a cardinal in St. Peter's Square on Feb. 21, 2001.