The Rome Correspondent for EWTN News Nightly and long-time friend of Vatican Radio, Mary Shovlain (follow Mary on Instagram @maryshovlain), shot these few seconds of Pope Francis making his way into the Thursday sessions of the conference organized by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on global solutions to the illegal narcotics trade. Drug dependency is a ‘new form of slavery’ and a ‘wound in our society’ which should be combated with education and rehabilitation - that was Pope Francis

LIVE from St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Leo XIV presides at Holy Mass offered in suffrage for the late Pope Francis and the cardinals and bishops who died during the year. | Vatican News