WATCH | Chilled pope chuckles as young boy interrupts his general audience

A six-year-old boy climbed on stage during Pope Francis’s general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday.

ABC reports, as the child's mother joined the boy in front of the pope, a brief discussion took place and the mother explained her son was mute and that he was from the pope's native Argentina.

"He is Argentinian and unruly," a laughing pope said to his private secretary, Georg Ganswein, who was seated next to him.

"Leave him, leave him to play here," the pope said as the child rolled around in front of him on the carpet.

NBC reports when the pope took the microphone to address the audience, he said, "This child cannot speak. He is mute. But he can communicate. And he has something that made me think: He's free. It made me think, 'Am I so free before God?'"