Pope Francis Holds Weekly Audience

VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - DECEMBER 18: Pope Francis chats with Prefect of the Pontifical House and former personal secretary of Pope Benedict XVI Georg Ganswein during his weekly Audience in St. Peter's Square on December 18, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican. During the Audience the Holy Father turned his attention to the Feast of the Nativity: 'this our encounter,' he said, 'is taking place in the spiritual climate of Advent, made even more intense by the Novena of the Holy Nativity that we are living in these days.' (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)