Overview
- He presided over Mass at St. Peter’s, declaring that there can be no peace without justice and urging heads of state to hear the cry of the poor.
- After the Angelus, he shared a meal in the Paul VI Audience Hall with roughly 1,300 people in need, joined by about 50 transgender Latin American women invited by the papal almoner.
- He lamented strikes on Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, citing civilian deaths, injured children and severe damage to infrastructure as winter nears.
- He presented the apostolic exhortation Dilexi te on love of the poor, completing a document that Pope Francis had been preparing.
- Caritas helped bring thousands of poor pilgrims to Rome, with tens of thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square to follow the liturgy on large screens.