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Pope Gives Final Audience

Published February 27, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI bid farewell to tens of thousands of people Wednesday in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, one day before his resignation takes effect. VOA's Al Pessin was there as the first pope to resign in nearly 600 years said goodbye.


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