Pope Francis is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century papacy of the Syrian pope Gregory III.
The call was released in excerpts published on Sunday from an upcoming new book ahead of Pope Francis's jubilee year.
Pope Francis addressed concerns of both students and professors, including social inequality, the climate crisis and the role of..
