Enzo Cacialli, co-owner of Pizzeria Don Ernesto in Naples, may not have had the ability to grant the pontiff's wish, but he was able to do the next best thing -- he handed off a thin-style crust pizza with "Il Papa" spelled out in dough on top to Francis as he passed by in the Popemobile Sunday.
"It's really hard for me to understand what I managed to do," Cacialli said. "Giving a pizza you made with your own hands to the Pope is very emotional. It's really hard for me to express the value of this gesture for a man we really love and value, for a beautiful person full of humanity."
The pizza maker said he is hoping to hear back about whether Pope Francis enjoyed the pie.