But since his election Pope Francis has been living in a simple two-room suite in the Domus Santa Marta - a hotel-style residence built by Pope John Paul II next to St Peter's Basilica.

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They are especially annoyed by the dropping of the plan for a new metro line, because it is now unclear how those enormous crowds will cross the centre of the city from the basilica of St Peter to that of St John Lateran.

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