Pope Francis holds a green parrot named Amore (Love in italian) that was offered to him by a pilgrim during his weekly general audience at the Vatican on January 29, 2014. Francis gladly blessed the parrot and took the bird for a few seconds on his finger. The parrot squawked the word 'Papa' (Pope in Italian) as it perched on the Pope?s finger. Last sunday a white dove that was released from a Vatican window was mobbed by a seagull and a crow, so Pope Francis made amends with the avian world. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM