Vatican Report | Tuesday evening, 3 November 2026

A day without public appointments for Pope Leo XIV, focused on the journey to Latin America: the Press Office presented the programme of the visit to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, and the Bulletin carried the Message for World Youth Day. No new appointments to office. Tomorrow at 10 a.m., the General Audience. 🗓️ The Pope's schedule No public appointments in the schedule consulted. According to Quotidiano Nazionale, the Pope spent the day at Castel Gandolfo, with his return to the Vatican expected this evening: the Press Office has not announced it and the return is not confirmed. ✈️ The journey briefing At 1 p.m. Press Office Director Matteo Bruni presented the 6-17 November journey: "a much-desired journey", and for the Pope Peru will be "a return home" (source: SIR, our translation). On health: only "ordinary medical assistance" on the flight, no extraordinary measures, programme unchanged. New Communications prefect Montserrat Alvarado made her debut; according to López-Dóriga and Milenio, she said the Pope "will go to see Our Lady of Guadalupe", with no date set. 🌏 The Message for World Youth Day The Message for the 41st World Youth Day was published (diocesan celebration on 22 November, then Seoul, 3-8 August 2027), on the theme "Take courage! I have overcome the world": "true victory does not lie in seeking to prevail over others, but in giving yourselves to them" (B0862). November's video message carries the intention "For the good use of wealth" (B0863); the Press Office also released Church statistics for the three countries of the journey (B0864). 🏛️ Holy See and Churches The Pope wrote to the bishops of France gathered in Lourdes: "Catholic education cannot renounce its educational project centred on Christ" (our translation). From Germany, Georg Bätzing asks him for an "urgently needed" clarification on abuse, calling it "insufficient" to describe it as "primarily a human problem". Cardinal Joseph Tobin is back home after kidney surgery, "with no complications", according to the Archdiocese of Newark. 🎖️ Appointments No appointments in today's Bulletin. 📌 To watch • Tomorrow, Wednesday 4 November, 10 a.m.: General Audience; noon: press conference on the 5th Report of the Laudato Si' Action Platform • Thursday 5 November, 9 a.m.: Mass in suffrage for the cardinals and bishops who died during the year, in St Peter's • 6-17 November: Apostolic Journey to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru • 18 November, 5 p.m.: Mass for the 400th anniversary of the Dedication of St Peter's Basilica