Pope Francis set out on his first full day in Mexico on Saturday with pomp and preaching, greeting thousands who lined city streets to see him and stopping to bless children in wheelchairs.
He will deliver messages to Mexico's political and religious leadership, vowing not to spare criticism nor comfort, before leading a huge Mass later Saturday.
As dawn broke in the Mexican capital, throngs of papal well-wishers were headed toward the central square known as the Zocalo and, to the north, toward the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, two highly symbolic stops on the pope's agenda.