"Todos, todos, todos." With those three unscripted words, Pope Francis distilled a decade of his pontificate into a single moment and delivered a rallying cry for its final 20 months. The church, he told thousands of young people gathered in Portugal for World Youth Day celebrations, is for "everyone, everyone, everyone."
Such encounters between popes and throngs of young people — spontaneous, emotionally charged, and widely echoed — have often become illuminating moments, encapsulating a pontiff's tone and style in a single exchange.
A phrase, a gesture, even a smile can crystallize how a papacy is perceived.
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