Overview
- The pope urged a worldwide 24-hour Christmas truce, asking people of goodwill to observe a day of peace.
- He will celebrate the Christmas Eve liturgy at 22:00 in St. Peter's Basilica, restoring the traditional start time.
- On Christmas Day he will preside at a morning Mass, deliver the Urbi et Orbi from St. Peter's, and speak to global crises.
- At his first Christmas reception he pressed Curia leaders for genuine fraternal friendship and a less bureaucratic, more missionary administration.
- The schedule also features the Dec. 26 Angelus, a Dec. 31 Te Deum, New Year's Day Mass, Holy Door closures culminating Jan. 6, and a Jan. 7 extraordinary consistory.