Overview

• He prayed for victims, the missing and displaced, and praised rescue teams and civil authorities during the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square.
• He said an exceptionally strong typhoon struck the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Guangdong and Vietnam, with media tallies reporting dozens of deaths and large-scale evacuations, including a single report of more than two million people moved in Guangdong.
• He denounced avarice and indifference by invoking the parable of Lazarus, urging conversion, justice and concrete solidarity with the poor.
• During the Jubilee of the Catechists, he instituted 39 new lay catechists from various countries and thanked catechists serving in difficult conditions.
• He announced plans to declare John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church on November 1 during the education-focused Jubilee event.