Pope Francis will travel again almost on the eve of his 88th birthday. On Sunday, December 15, he will visit Corsica, France. It will be to close a conference on popular religiosity in the Mediterranean. The bishop of the place, whom Pope Francis made a cardinal in 2023, will be waiting for him there.
CARD. FRANÇOIS-XAVIER BUSTILLO
Bishop of Ajaccio, France
In our country, in France, there is a lot of talk about knowledge, possession, power, action and it is a materialistic and often individualistic logic. But we rarely talk about "being." And the secularized society has removed God. God is on the periphery. God does not count. And we have realized that there is a vacuum.
It will be the third trip that brings Pope Francis to France without passing through the capital, in line with his idea of visiting peripheral areas. In 2023 he visited Marseille to participate in the annual summit of bishops of the Mediterranean region. And in 2014 he visited Strasbourg, in what was an institutional trip. Pope Francis traveled there to address the European Parliament and the Council of Europe.
TR: JD
