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November 2016

01.11.2016
- Mass at Swedbank Stadium: we need one another if we are to become saints
- Angelus: “I give thanks to God for the opportunity to come to this land”
02.11.2016
- The Pope speaks with journalists on the return flight from Sweden
03.11.2016
- “May religions be doors of hope”, says the Pope in audience with members of different religions
- Archbishop Fisichella presents the Jubilee of prisoners and the socially marginalised
- Other Pontifical Acts
04.11.2016
- The Pope celebrates Mass for the repose of the souls of cardinals and bishops departed during the year
- Second Assembly of Religious in Europe Networking Against Trafficking and Exploitation (RENATE)
- Other Pontifical Acts
05.11.2016
- The Pope receives the Habsburgs on their family pilgrimage to Rome
- Statute of the Pontifical Academy for Life
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
- To Popular Movements: be sowers of change, do not let yourselves be confined
06.11.2016
- Mass at the Jubilee of Prisoners: Let us never yield to the temptation of thinking that we cannot be forgiven
- Angelus: without faith in resurrection, Christianity is reduced to a philosophy of life
- The Pope asks for improvement in living conditions for prisoners and an act of clemency in the Jubilee of Mercy
07.11.2016
- The Pope thanks RENATE for raising awareness of the extent of human trafficking
- Rare and neglected pathologies: theme of the International Conference of the Pontifical Council for Healthcare Workers
- Declaration of the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, concerning the purported episcopal ordinations without Pontifical Mandate in Continental China
- The Holy Doors of the Papal Basilicas to be closed next Sunday
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
09.11.2016
- General audience: visiting the sick and the imprisoned: ancient works of mercy always remain current
- Greetings to pilgrims: remembering the dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran
- In memoriam
10.11.2016
- Unity is a journey, not a destination, says the Pope to the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
11.11.2016
- Teach us not to be satisfied: the Pope to the socially excluded
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
12.11.2016
- A visit to young men who have left the priesthood concludes the Pope’s Mercy Fridays
- Jubilee audience: mercy is inclusive
- Greetings to pilgrims: prayers and aid for our brothers and sisters in Iraq and the Middle East
- Message of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers (Health Pastoral Care) at the end of its 31st International Conference
- Cardinal Murphy O’Connor, the Pope’s special envoy to the consecration of the Cathedral of Trondheim, Norway
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
13.11.2016
- Mass at the Jubilee for Socially Excluded Persons: it is the symptom of a spiritual sclerosis when we are interested in objects to be produced rather than persons to be loved
- Angelus: God never abandons us
- Other Pontifical Acts
14.11.2016
- The Holy Father receives the German national football team
- Meeting of the Pope with the dicasteries of the Roman Curia
15.11.2016
- Francis greets faithful from the Netherlands on their Jubilee pilgrimage
- Pope’s message for the 22nd meeting of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Agreement on Climate Change (COP22): the fights against climate change and poverty are linked
- The Pope to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: consider how your local Churches can best respond to the growing presence, gifts and potential of the Hispanic community
- Other Pontifical Acts
16.11.2016
- General audience: bear patiently those who wrong us, without forgetting our own flaws
- Appeal for the rights of children and teenagers
- Greetings in various languages: prayers and solidarity for the victims of the earthquake in Central Italy
- Other Pontifical Acts
17.11.2016
- The Pope receives the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East and expresses his concern for the terrible violence in Iraq and Syria.
- The Pope’s address to the Representative Council of Caritas Internationalis
- Restore the social meaning of financial and banking activity, says the Pope to business leaders
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
18.11.2016
- Audiences
- The Pope meets the bishops attending the course on the new marriage nullity procedures, organised by the Apostolic Tribunal of the Roman Rota
19.11.2016
- The Pope creates seventeen new cardinals: Jesus continues to call us and to send us to the “plain” where our people dwell
- Titular churches and diaconates of the new cardinals
- Other Pontifical Acts
21.11.2016
- Archbishop Rino Fisichella summarises the meaning of the Jubilee Year and presents the Apostolic Letter “Misericordia et misera”
- Apostolic Letter “Misericordia et misera”
- Cardinal Toppo, Pope’s special envoy at the Eleventh Plenary Assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences
- Other Pontifical Acts
22.11.2016
- Pope Francis has decided on the themes for the next three WYDs (2017-2019)
- A new website for the Pope’s charity
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
23.11.2016
- Francis greets the participants in the meeting arranged by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the “Islamic Culture and Relations Organisation”
- General audience: counsel the doubtful and instruct the ignorant
- Greetings in different languages
- Second meeting of the Fourteenth Ordinary Council of the Secretariat General of the Synod of Bishops
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
24.11.2016
- The Pope to the participants in the meeting “Narcotics: problems and solutions of this global issue”: prevention is the best way, but rehabilitation of victims is fundamental
- Holy Father’s Calendar for December 2016 and January 2017
- Audiences
- The Pope greets the participants in the Festival of the Social Doctrine of the Church with a video message
25.11.2016
- Entry into force of Accord between the Holy See and the French Republic
- Audiences
27.11.2016
- Angelus: Advent, the Lord’s visit to humanity
- The Pope prays for populations affected by natural disasters in Central America and in Italy
28.11.2016
- Pope Francis receives in audience the Taoiseach of Ireland
- To the Pontifical Academy of Sciences: science in the service of a new global ecological balance
- Audience with the organisers and collaborators in the Jubilee of Mercy
- Telegram for the death of Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach S.J., former Prepositor of the Society of Jesus
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
30.11.2016
- The Pope’s condolences for the air crash in Colombia
- Francis receives French politicians from the Rhône-Alpes region: deepen the values of liberty, equality and fraternity, whose origin is transcendent
- General audience: end of the cycle of catechesis on mercy
- World AIDS Day and the International Conference on heritage protection in conflict zones
- Greetings to pilgrims: Francis acknowledges the suffering of the Brazilian people
- Message from the Pope to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on the celebration of St. Andrew: visible signs of the bonds that unite us
- Led by the Spirit for Mission: the Pope’s Message for the 54th World Day of Prayer for Vocations
- Pope Francis' prayer intentions for December
- Other Pontifical Acts