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March 2017

01.03.2017
- General audience: Lent, journey of hope
- Greetings to pilgrims: Lent, time of spiritual renewal and solidarity
- Pope’s message for the Campaign of Fraternity of Brazil: the degradation of the environment is always accompanied by social injustice
- Audiences
- The Pope imposes the ashes at the Basilica of St. Sabina: to experience Lent is to yearn for the breath of life our Father offers us amid the mire of our history
02.03.2017
- The Pope meets the clergy of his diocese in the Basilica of St. John Lateran
- Final communiqué of the seminar “Biological extinction. How to save the natural world on which we depend”
- Other Pontifical Acts
03.03.2017
- Holy Father’s calendar for March and April
- The Pope to receive the heads of State and government of the European Union
- Audiences
04.03.2017
- The Pope receives the participants in the International Congress on Sacred Music
- Press release from the Secretariat for the Economy: Consolidated Accounts for 2015
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
- Presentation of the Women’s Consultation Group of the Pontifical Council for Culture
05.03.2017
- Angelus: familiarise ourselves with the Bible to rise, victorious, above temptation
- The Pope and the Roman Curia begin the Spiritual Exercises
07.03.2017
- Resignations and Appointments
- “Meeting point” for journalists to present the Women’s Consultation Group, permanent body within the Pontifical Council for Culture
08.03.2017
- Resignations and Appointments
- Visit of the Holy Father Francis to Milan (25 March 2017) – Programme
09.03.2017
- Resignations and Appointments
10.03.2017
- First Sermon of Lent
- The Holy Father’s words to the Preacher of the Spiritual Exercises (Ariccia, 10 March 2017)
- Resignations and Appointments
- Notice from the Office of Liturgical Celebrations
- Declaration of the vice director of the Holy See Press Office, Paloma García Ovejero
11.03.2017
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Audience with volunteers of “Telefono Amico Italia”
12.03.2017
- The Pope's words at the Angelus prayer
- Pastoral visit to the Roman parish of Santa Maddalena di Canossa (Borgata Ottavia)
14.03.2017
- Resignations and Appointments
15.03.2017
- General Audience
- Holy Father’s Message to members of the International Association of Charities (AIC)
- Pastoral visit of the Holy Father Francis to Carpi (2 April 2017) – Programme
16.03.2017
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Holy See Press Office Communiqué: Audience with the President of the Republic of Lebanon
17.03.2017
- Second Sermon of Lent
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Audience with participants in the Course on the Internal Forum organised by the Apostolic Penitentiary
- Penitential Celebration presided at by the Holy Father Francis
18.03.2017
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Statement by the director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke
- Appeal for the Collection for the Holy Land
- Telegram of condolences for the death of Cardinal Miloslav Vlk
19.03.2017
- The Pope's words at the Angelus prayer
20.03.2017
- Audiences
- Pilgrimage of His Holiness Francis to the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima on the occasion of the centenary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Cova da Iria (12-13 May 2017) - Programme, 20 March 2017
- Press Communiqué: Audience with the President of the Republic of Rwanda
21.03.2017
- Resignations and Appointments
- Notice to journalists
- Cardinals to take possession of titular sees
- The Holy Father’s Message for the 32nd World Youth Day (Palm Sunday, 9 April, 2017)
- The Holy Father Francis’ video message for the 32nd World Youth Day (Palm Sunday, 9 April 2017)
22.03.2017
- Resignations and Appointments
- “Meeting point” to present the International Study Convention organised by the Pontifical Committee for Social Sciences, on the occasion of the fifth centenary of the Lutheran Reformation (1517-2017)
- General Audience
23.03.2017
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Holy Father’s condolences following the attack in London, United Kingdom
- Promulgation of Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
- Holy See Press Office Communique: Audience with the President of the Republic of Cameroon
24.03.2017
- Third Sermon of Lent
- Audiences
- Telegram of condolences from the Holy Father for the death of His Eminence Cardinal William Henry Keeler
- Holy See Press Office Communiqué: Audience with the President of the Republic of Fiji
- Audience with the Heads of State and Government of the European Union
25.03.2017
- Pastoral visit of the Holy Father Francis to the archdiocese of Milan: Meeting with the residents of the Forlanini quarter – “White Houses”
- Pastoral visit of the Holy Father Francis to the archdiocese of Milan: encounter with priests and consecrated persons in the Duomo
- Pastoral visit of the Holy Father Francis to the archdiocese of Milan: Angelus prayer and blessing outside the Duomo
- Resignations and Appointments
- Pastoral visit of the Holy Father Francis to the archdiocese of Milan: Holy Mass in Monza Park
- Pastoral visit of the Holy Father Francis to the archdiocese of Milan: encounter with confirmands and newly-confirmed youngsters
26.03.2017
- The Pope’s words at the Angelus prayer
27.03.2017
- Audiences
28.03.2017
- Celebrations of Holy Week 2017, presided at by the Holy Father Francis
- Resignations and Appointments
- Notice of Press Conference
- Holy Father’s Message to the United Nations Conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons (New York, 27-31 March 2017)
- Letter from the Cardinal Secretary of State on behalf of the Holy Father to the Tenth Forum for the Future of Agriculture (Brussels, 28 March 2017)
29.03.2017
- General Audience
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Notice of Press Conference
- Holy Father’s audience with the participants in the meeting of the Permanent Committee for Dialogue between the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Iraqi Superintendencies (for Shiites, Sunnis, Christians, Yazidis and Sabeans/Mandaeans)
30.03.2017
- Holy Father’s Letter to the prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life for the Ninth World Meeting of Families (Dublin, 21-26 August 2018)
- Press Conference for the presentation of the Holy Father Francis’ Letter for the Ninth World Meeting of Families (Dublin, 21-26 August 2018)
- Audiences
- Press Release of the Secretariat of State: Peter’s Pence is now on social network sites Twitter and Instagram
- Audience with participants in the General Chapter of the Order of Clerics Regular of Somasca
31.03.2017
- Fourth Sermon of Lent
- Audiences
- Press Release from the Dicastery for Integral Human Development on the International Congress “Prospects for Integral Human Development: 50 years after the Encyclical Populorum Progressio”
- Holy Father’s Greeting to participants in the Meeting promoted by the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences: “Luther: 500 Years Later”
- Holy See Press Office Communiqué: visit of the Holy Father to the Sant’Alessio – Margherita di Savoia Regional Centre for the blind, Rome