Pope Francis just joined Instagram

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Instagram just got a little bit holier. Pope Francis joined Saturday, a month after meeting with co-founder Kevin Systrom. Here's his first post:

A photo posted by Pope Francis (@franciscus) on Mar 19, 2016 at 4:24am PDT

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Julie Kliegman
Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.