Pop Pope?

Annalisa Leite, World News Editor

Pope Francis is continuing to make people smile whenever they hear his name. Instead of a homily or a new Catholic Church initiative, Pope Francis is reaching out to all people of every religion with one thing that all people have a love for; music.

Pope Francis has collaborated in making a pop song about peace with Italian-Argentine musician and UNESCO peace ambassador Odino Faccia. The song is called “So We Can All Be One” and contains phrases used by Pope Francis during his homilies. A Vatican spokesman told CBS News on Tuesday that the pope saw the lyrics in advance and gave them his stamp of approval.

Faccia performed the song to a huge audience in St. Peter’s Square following Palm Sunday mass on March 30, and the response was great. Everyone their enjoyed the song, including Pope Francis himself.

The lyrics seem to address young people, just like Pope Francis usually does: “The future is in your mind, your hands and your heart. So we can all be one. Unity is the path… an alliance always open to love and truth.”

Faccia told Italian media that it was the pope himself who asked him to write a song dedicated to peace and that he has a “close and trusting relationship” with Francis that began after he performed in St. Peter’s Square last year following the canonization ceremony for Popes John Paul II and John XXIII.

The song is now available on iTunes in Spanish, but Portuguese, Italian and English versions are in the works.