Pope Feels Papacy Will Be Brief, Misses Eating Pizza Incognito

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Pope Francis said he feels his pontificate will be brief, perhaps lasting only “two or three” years.

In an interview with Mexican broadcaster Televisa to mark the second anniversary of his election, Francis branded the bureaucracy that runs the Catholic Church “the last court that remains in Europe” and said he misses not being able to slip out of the Vatican unrecognized to go for a pizza.