News Manager
Milforums News Bot
By Alexandra Valencia and Girish Gupta QUITO (Reuters) - Pope Francis showed his sense of humor during the last few hours of his trip to Ecuador on Wednesday, straying from a prepared speech to joke with people who came to see him at a shrine near the highland capital Quito. "I have a prepared script but I don't want to read it," said the 78-year-old pope to laughs from the crowd, before asking them to pray for him so that he would never forget where he came from. "Do not fall into a spiritual Alzheimer's, do not forget!" Francis added in a totally improvised speech.More...