As the Christmas holidays are fastly approaching, the Pope asked Catholics not to leave the elderly, who sometimes suffer total abandonment and loneliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POPE FRANCIS Pope Francis began a new cycle of catechesis focusing on Christian hope. Over the next few Wednesdays the General Audience will take place in the Paul VI Audience Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is already a festive atmosphere there. Every week you can see traditional groups singing Christmas carols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christmas is already in the air in the Vatican: every week you can see groups singing Christmas carols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":73601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,214,25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UwEj3zsn_F4","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1812eng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1812int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73608,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73606\/revisions\/73608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>They are a divine gift to be thanked and cared for. Let us not allow them to find themselves alone during the coming Christmas festivities. This I would like to repeat: let them not find themselves alone this festivity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n