Year in Review with Pope Francis
A look back at the events, encounters, discourses and journeys that have marked this year for Pope Francis.
During the year, Pope Francis had 41 General Audiences, 56 Angelus and Regina Caeli addresses, over 60 public homilies, and 44 homilies delivered during his private morning masses in the Casa Santa Marta adjacent to St Peter's Basilica. All on top of about 260 speeches delivered in Rome and on his travels.
Projects and events for the year included:
- Certainty not confusion
- Faith not idolatry
- Self-correction not self-justification
- Meekness not rigidity
- Putting Christ at the centre
- Combatting abuse
- Abolishing “pontifical secrecy”
- Reforming the Holy See in Rome
- Reforming the Vatican economy
- Sunday of the Word of God
- The Nativity scene
- Persecuted Christians
- Defending the family and life
- Encouraging young people
- Apostolic journeys
- Saints and Blesseds
- A priest for fifty years
The year in review with Pope Francis