Asked to speak about his own faith, Albanese says:

Look, I try not to talk about my faith in public. I say I was raised with three great faiths, I’ve said that a number of times. And at times like this, I think what people do is to, they draw on who they are. And certainly my Catholicism is just a part of me. And one of the things about the Holy Father is that he, for so many Catholics, I think his humility for the way that he embraced the poor, the way that he embraced the social justice message that I see as the message of Jesus Christ, is really important for so many Catholics. And he was someone who I personally admired as well, as someone who his values that he put forward, he had a great deal of courage as well. He was very much a modern leader in the way that he conducted himself.