The Vatican today published what will be the program for the Holy Father’s next pastoral visit to Trieste on Sunday, July 7, on the occasion of the 50th Social Week of Catholics in Italy.
The Pontiff’s helicopter will take off from the Vatican for Trieste at 6:30 a.m. (local time) on Sunday and is scheduled to land two hours later at the city’s General Convention Center.
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There he will be received by Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna and President of the Italian Episcopal Conference; Mons. Luigi Renna, Archbishop of Catania and President of the Organizing Committee of the Social Weeks; Mons. Enrico Trevisi, Bishop of Trieste and other authorities.
Next, in the same center, he will hold a meeting with the participants in the congress, from where he will give his first speech.
At the end of this first act, the Holy Father will meet at 9:15 a.m. with ecumenical representatives, people from the academic world and with a group of migrants and the disabled.
At 10:30 a.m. he will arrive at the so-called Unity Square of Italy, where he will preside over a Holy Mass.
After the celebration, the Holy Father will take off at 12:30 p.m. from the port of Trieste “Molo Audace” and will land at the Vatican at 2:00 p.m.
Almudena Martínez-Bordiú
I am a graduate in Journalism and Advertising from the CEU San Pablo University in Madrid. Specialized in religious information in Spain since 2015. I have been a senior correspondent for ACI Prensa and EWTN Noticias in the Vatican for two years and I am currently a European correspondent based in Spain.