POPE FRANCIS ARRIVES IN WORLD'S LARGEST DIOCESE

Pope Francis has arrived in Milan on a one- day visit to the world’s largest diocese and the home base of his main competition for the papacy, Cardinal Angelo Scola. The pope’s first stop Saturday is a housing project on the outskirts of Italy’s fashion and finance capital, a stop that underlines the pope’s view that the peripheries offer a better view of reality than well- tended and prosperous city centers. Francis will also visit the city’s main prison, offer a blessing at the Gothic- era Duomo cathedral and say an open- air Mass. It is the fifth papal visit to Milan, the world’s largest parish with 5 million faithful, including two by Pope John Paul II and one by Pope Benedict the XVI.