Pope Francis is in his 4th week recovering in *** hospital in Rome from pneumonia in both his lungs. He will have to miss an important anniversary, the 12th anniversary that he was elected Pope. He will not be here at the Vatican for that. It was March 13, 2013 when *** fluff of white smoke came out of the Sistine Chapel behind me, announcing that the conclave had chosen *** pope. Tens of thousands of people gathered here. In Saint Peter's Square, including those of us from Associated Press, and *** little while later he emerged on the balcony on the front of Saint Peter's Basilica as Pope Francis. He surprised us all by taking the microphone and saying, er, good evening, *** very humble and simple greeting in Italian. And then he did another gesture. He asked the crowd to pray for him and he bent his head before the crowd. The humility has been *** sign of his 12 years as Pope. He immediately chose to live in the Santa Marta residence in the Vatican rather than the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace over there. And he seemed to be most happy when he was with common people. He has thoroughly enjoyed his weekly audiences here in St. Peter's Square, going around the square at the beginning in his Popemobile and taking children into into the vehicle with him and kissing babies. He seems to enjoy that much more than meeting with world leaders and. Dignitaries over the course of these 12 years, he has taken 47 trips and visited 67 countries and there again he has shown *** preference for going to the peripheries and meeting with more humble people. He's been to refugee camps, prisons, and slums all around the world.