Pope marks first anniversary with tweet from retreat


  • World
  • Friday, 14 Mar 2014

Pope Francis looks up as he talks during a pastoral visit at the Sacro Cuore Basilica in downtown Rome January 19, 2014. REUTERS/Tony Gentile

Vatican City (Reuters) - Pope Francis marked the first anniversary of his election as head of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday with a tweet from his retreat.

"Pray for me," Francis tweeted on his English account @pontifex. If you are a Latin lover, the literary kind, it was "Orate pro me".

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