There's something a little absurd and -- pardon the expression -- comical about scrolling through your news site or social media feed and encountering a photograph of Pope Francis engaged in a conversation with a fully-costumed Spider-Man. That's what happened today, but the Catholic News Agency explains that it wasn't just a goof or some kind of strange protest. Rather, the pope was meeting with a man who appears at children's hospitals while dressed as the wall-crawler. The man, whose secret identity is Mattia Villardita, attended a general audience with the pope, and got some face time with Pope Francis, appearing on the Vatican's official livestream of the event.