The miraculous San Marcello al Corso crucifix pictured as Pope Francis delivers his homily in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican, prior to the Urbi et Orbi blessing. Photo: Vatican Media/AFP

Church in SocietyA Church that witnesses

Witness is the Church’s life­blood; and that life, lavished with his blood, is today in the solidarity, mutual care and self-emptying love we offer each other as concrete acts of ‘tending lambs’.