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"I believe the pope's ministry is ad vitam, for life," Francis says.

He said this year that he viewed the pontificate as a lifelong mission, telling a group of Jesuits in the Democratic Republic of Congo that he thought “the pope’s ministry is ad vitam,” using the Latin term “for life.”

“I believe that the pope’s ministry is ad vitam,” he told a group of Jesuits in the Democratic Republic of Congo last month, using the term “for life” in Latin.

“I believe that the pope’s ministry is ad vitam. I see no reason why it should not be so,” he told a group of Jesuits in the Democratic Republic of Congo last month, adding that retirement was, for the moment not “on my agenda.”

The project is calling the vehicle Ava, which stands for the Latin phrase ad vitam aeternam, meaning “to eternal life.”