The naked woman was brought to life by the Renaissance figure in his iconic fresco,known as The Flood,painted between 1508 and 1512.
His three-day visit will include an open-air celebration of Mass the Vatican says may include more than half the population of 1.3 million.
The Vatican’s former ambassador to the US developed a fringe following by peddling conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine on social media.
“All of us were thinking,how did this happen?” said comedian Conan O’Brien. “Why are we here,and when are they going to throw us out?”
Francis again used the term on Tuesday as he met Roman priests,saying it was better that young men with a homosexual tendency not be allowed to enter the seminary.
Francis was said to have made the remark when the subject of admitting gay men to seminaries was raised by participants.
“Carlo was the light answer to the dark side of the web,” his mother said of the “patron saint of the internet” who will now be canonised.
They often stand out in the pews,with the men in ties and the women sometimes with the lace head coverings that all but disappeared from American churches more than 50 years ago.
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Darwin has been singled out as the most likely destination for a papal visit,which would be the first by a Catholic pope to Australia in 16 years.
The release of a 20-page document follows fierce conservative pushback against the doctrinal office’s previous declaration on LGBT issues.