Pope Francis said on Friday he had no wish to live in the apostolic apartments inhabited by previous pontiffs, “for psychiatric reasons”.

The Vatican on Tuesday played down a report by Italian Catholic media that Pope Francis had carried out an exorcism on a young disabled man on Sunday that made world news.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected Pope on Wednesday to lead the Roman Catholic Church, a prelate announced to huge crowds cheering in St. Peter’s Square late Wednesday night.