Pope Franciswill keep up his red carpet treatment of Rome’s homeless on Thursday when he grants a group a special visit to the Sistine Chapel.
Tourists will be cleared out of the chapel to allow 150 homeless people to receive a guided tour, L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s daily newspaper, announced.
The visit, which will be led by Pope Francis’s chief almsgiver, Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, will also take in the Vatican’s museum and hidden gardens, with dinner at the Vatican after.
Having said he wanted the Catholic church to be a “poor church for the poor”, the Pope has overseen the distribution of sleeping bags and umbrellas to Rome’s homeless and set up free showers and a barber shop for them by the colonnade surrounding