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May 2023

01.05.2023
- Resignations and Appointments
02.05.2023
- Press Conference to present the photographic exhibition “Women’s Cry”
- Resignations and Appointments
- Notice from the Office of Liturgical Celebrations
- Message of the Holy Father to the Fondazione Memorie Audiovisive del Cattolicesimo (MAC) (Audiovisual Memories of Catholicism Foundation), on the occasion of its founding
- Video Message of the Holy Father with the prayer intention for the month of May, disseminated via the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network
03.05.2023
- General Audience
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Communiqué of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue
- Notice of Press Conference
04.05.2023
- Declaration of the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni
- Audience of the Holy Father with participants in the colloquium between the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, “Creative Commonalities between Christianity and Islam”
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Telegram of the Holy Father, signed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, for flood victims in Rwanda
05.05.2023
- Audience with members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Notice of Press Conference
- Audience with pilgrims from the diocese of Asti, Italy
- Telegram of the Holy Father, signed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, for the victims of the shootings in the “Vladislav Ribnikar” Primary School in Belgrade and in the town of Mladenovac
06.05.2023
- Audience with the Pontifical Swiss Guard
- Audience with the participants in the Sixth International Symposium of Tennis and Padel
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Calendar of Celebrations presided over by the Holy Father Francis (May 2023) May 2023
07.05.2023
- The Pope’s words at the Regina Caeli prayer
08.05.2023
- Audience with the Congregation of the Holy Spirit
- Audiences
- Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II commemorate together the 50th anniversary of the historic meeting between Saint Paul VI and Pope Shenouda III
09.05.2023
- Press Conference “Jubilee 2025: aims reached and projects”
10.05.2023
- Audience with the participants in the Conference of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on the theme: “Food and humanitarian crises: science and policy for their prevention and mitigation”
- General Audience
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
11.05.2023
- Message of the Holy Father to the participants in the international Conference “Peace among peoples. Sixty years after Pacem in Terris”
- Private meeting of Pope Francis with His Holiness Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the historic meeting of their predecessors, Pope Saint Paul VI and Pope Shenouda III
- Message of the Holy Father Francis for the 109th World Day of Migrants and Refugees
- Audiences
- Audience with the Conference of Missionary Institutes in Italy
- Message to participants in the General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis
- Resignations and Appointments
12.05.2023
- Address of the Holy Father Francis to the participants in the third edition of the States General on Natality
- Audiences
- Joint Statement of the Bilateral Commission of the Delegations of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews
13.05.2023
- The Credential Letters of the Ambassadors of Iceland, Bangladesh, Syria, Gambia and Kazakhstan to the Holy See
- Audience with members of the “Asociación Agraria de Jóvenes Agricultores, Spain
- Fundamental Law of Vatican City State
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Audience with the participants in the General Assembly of the “Union Mundial de las Organizaciones Femeninas Católicas” (UMOFC)
- Holy See Press Office Communiqué: Audience with the President of Ukraine
14.05.2023
- The Pope’s words at the Regina Caeli prayer
15.05.2023
- Meeting of Heads of Dicasteries of the Roman Curia
- Notice from the Office of Liturgical Celebrations
- Notice
16.05.2023
- Resignations and Appointments
17.05.2023
- General Audience
18.05.2023
- Resignations and Appointments
- Telegram sent on behalf of the Holy Father by the Substitute for General Affairs, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, for the victims of the storm in Emilia Romagna
19.05.2023
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
20.05.2023
- Audience with Confirmands from the archdiocese of Genoa
- Letter of the Holy Father to the Bishop of Hiroshima on the occasion of the G7 Summit
- Audiences
- Promulgation of Decrees of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints
- Letter of the Holy Father to the Pontifical Legate for the celebration of the opening of the Virginian Jubilee Year on the 9th Centenary of the founding of the Abbey of Santa Maria in Montevergine (28 May 2023)
21.05.2023
- The Pope’s words at the Regina Caeli prayer
22.05.2023
- Audience with participants in the pilgrimage of the Vocationist Family
- Holy See Press Office Communiqué: Audience with President of the Republic of Slovenia
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Declaration of the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni
- Press Release of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses
- Opening of the 77th General Assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference (C.E.I.) in the presence of the Holy Father
23.05.2023
- Resignations and Appointments
- Notice of Press Conference
24.05.2023
- General Audience
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- From the Eastern Churches
- Rescriptum ex audientia SS.MI: Rescript of the Holy Father regarding the duties of the office of the Auditor General
25.05.2023
- Message of the Holy Father Francis for the celebration of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (1 September 2023)
- Audience with participants in the National Meeting of diocesan representatives of the Italian Synodal Path
- Press Conference to present the Message of the Holy Father Francis on the occasion of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation
- Audiences
- Notice of Press Conference
- Audience with participants in the General Chapter of the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity (Opera Don Orione)
26.05.2023
- Message of the Dicastery for Evangelization on the occasion of World Tourism Day 2023
- Resignations and Appointments
- Notice of Press Conference.
27.05.2023
- Audience with participants in the Conference organized by “La Civiltà Cattolica” with Georgetown University
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Mission and Letter of the Holy Father to the special envoy at the National Eucharistic Congress in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Lubumbashi, 4 to 11 June 2023)
- From the Eastern Churches
28.05.2023
- Holy Mass on Pentecost Sunday
- The Pope’s words at the Regina Caeli prayer
29.05.2023
- Audience with paediatric cancer patients of the Wrocław Oncological Clinic, Poland
- “Towards Full Presence. A Pastoral Reflection on Engagement with Social Media”
- Audience with children from various African nations, on the occasion of “Africa Day”
- Audience with the Clerics Regular of Saint Paul (Barnabites) and the spiritual family of Saint Antonio Maria Zaccaria
- Audiences
- Resignations and Appointments
- Audience with the Paul VI Institute of Brescia for the conferral of the “Paul VI Prize”
30.05.2023
- Message of the Holy Father for the Launch of the “Family Global Compact” (30 May 2023)
- Press Conference to present the “Family Global Compact” and the Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the launch of the “Family Global Compact”
- Resignations and Appointments
- Video Message of the Holy Father with the prayer intention for the month of June, disseminated via the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network
31.05.2023
- General Audience
- Resignations and Appointments