--- title: This Boy Instagrammed a Pope Francis Selfie description: He captured the moment in front of the Vatican Embassy canonical: https://time.com/4048043/this-boy-instagrammed-a-pope-francis-selfie/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-24T14:08:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:09.530Z og:title: This Boy Instagrammed a Pope Francis Selfie og:description: He captured the moment in front of the Vatican Embassy og:url: https://time.com/4048043/this-boy-instagrammed-a-pope-francis-selfie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Boy Instagrammed a Pope Francis Selfie twitter:description: He captured the moment in front of the Vatican Embassy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Boy Instagrammed a Pope Francis Selfie by [Jessica Fecteau / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Jessica Fecteau / People Contributor Sep 24, 2015 2:08 PM UTC by [Jessica Fecteau / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Jessica Fecteau / People Contributor Sep 24, 2015 2:08 PM UTC Not only has [Pope Francis](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:PopeFrancis,00.html) brought [much buzz to the United States](http://www.people.com/article/pope-francis-usa-visit-lands-washington-dc-president-obama), but he’s also allowed for some unbeatable photo ops. Many have taken to Instagram to share moments during Francis’ first United States visit as the Pope, including one lucky boy—Kristupas Vorobjovas, 11—who gave us all #selfiegoals in front of the Vatican Embassy. A group of nuns also got in on the fun, “tailgating” before mass in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Pope Francis was [welcomed at the White House](http://www.people.com/article/pope-francis-white-house-barack-obama-america-visit) Wednesday morning, followed by a [prayer service](http://www.people.com/article/pope-francis-prayer-service-washington-dc-st-matthews) at St. Matthew’s. He will continue his U.S. tour in New York City Thursday, followed by a trip to Philadelphia. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/pope-francis-instagram-selfie-nuns-tailgating?) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4048043/this-boy-instagrammed-a-pope-francis-selfie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4048043/this-boy-instagrammed-a-pope-francis-selfie/"},"headline":"This Boy Instagrammed a Pope Francis Selfie","datePublished":"2015-09-24T14:08:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:09.530Z","description":"He captured the moment in front of the Vatican Embassy","url":"https://time.com/4048043/this-boy-instagrammed-a-pope-francis-selfie/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","viral","vatican city"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Fecteau / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4048043/this-boy-instagrammed-a-pope-francis-selfie/","name":"This Boy Instagrammed a Pope Francis Selfie"}}]}] ```