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Pope Francis will soon embark on the Papal plane for the first time in six months to visit Hungary and Slovakia. His first stop: the International Eucharistic Congress...

By Andrea Tornielli The year 2020 for Pope Francis, like that of each of us, was deeply marked by the pandemic. He made no international trips, and held only a few General Audiences with the faithful present at the end of the summer, before a second wave of coronavirus infections brought them to an end once more. His public celebrations were held with slimmed-down participation of the faithful. It was a year marked by the lack of daily personal contact—made up of physical closeness in the for...