Veteran journalist Suzana Cardoso, second right, speaks with her colleagues at a media center in Dili, East Timor on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Church officials distribute East Timorese flags and those with a portrait of Pope Francis, after a Sunday Mass ahead of the pope's visit to East Timor, in Dili, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

A security officer stands guard in Tasitolu, an open field on the coast which will be the venue of a papal Mass, in Dili, East Timor, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Motorcyclists move along a street where vendors have been removed in preparation of the visit of Pope Francis in Dili, East Timor on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

People clean a street next to a banner welcoming Pope Francis in Dili, East Timor Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

A man stands near a banner showing East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta, left, shaking hands with Pope Francis, ahead of the pope's visit to the country, in Dili, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Vegetable vendors who were removed from a street wait for customers in Dili, East Timor, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

East Timor's Minister of State Administration, Tomas Cabral, who heads the national organizing committee for the pope's visit, speaks with a reporter in Dili, East Timor, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

People walk past Tasitolu, an open field on the coast which will be the venue of a papal Mass, in Dili, East Timor, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Volunteers paint a fence in preparation of the arrival of Pope Francis in Dili, East Timor, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta, right, and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao share a laugh during a ceremony at the Presidential palace in Dili, East Timor on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)