(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File) In this Friday, March 29, 2019, file photo, Pope Francis attends an audience with participants of a course on the Internal Forum promoted by the Apostolic Penitentiary Court, in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican. Pope Francis said on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, women have "legitimate claims" to seek more justice and equality in the Catholic Church but has stopped short of endorsing more sweeping calls from his own bishops to give women decision-making roles.