When the infants began to cry the pope joked that Jesus’ first sermon was the sound of him wailing in the manger at Bethlehem.
According to a Vatican Radio correspondent, Philippa Hitchen:
As the sounds of crying grew louder, the pope joked that the concert had begun. The babies are crying, he said, because they are in an unfamiliar place, or because they had to get up early, or sometimes simply because they hear another child crying. Jesus did just the same, Pope Francis said, adding that he liked to think of Our Lord’s first sermon as his crying in the stable.
This is not the first time that the pope has supported a woman’s right to breast-feed in public — or in the Sistine Chapel, an ornate room decorated by Michelangelo where popes are elected in closed-door conclaves.