Christmas Mass: Pope Francis addresses his faithful at St. Peter’s Basilica

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Christmas is above all a religious holiday for millions of Christians around the world, despite the Covid-19. Pope Francis celebrates, Friday, December 24, the traditional Christmas mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The correspondent of France Télévisions Alban Mikoczy, gives us his report.

2,500 faithful attend, Friday, December 24, the solemn mass of Pope Francis, at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome. “They were checked beforehand, in particular the temperature measurement,” indicates Alban Mikoczy, the correspondent of France Televisions in Rome. On the other hand, no health pass, it is not compulsory inside places of worship in Italy “, specifies the journalist.

The Pope has just delivered his homily, he has address to his followers by asking “the praise of poverty, of smallness, in a world, he says, where society is too devoted to wealth and fame”, reports the journalist. The Mass will then be broadcast around the world, for the billion Catholics who want to attend.


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