ROME – After weeks of rumours about a potential papal visit, the French Diocese of Ajaccio announced this week that Pope Francis will make a daytrip to the island of Corsica next month, furthering prioritising the Mediterranean region.
Pope Francis will visit Corsica on December 15, according to an announcement on the website of the local Diocese of Ajaccio, which is led by Cardinal François-Xavier Bustillo, who got a red hat from Pope Francis in 2023.
The theme of the Pope’s daytrip will be “Jesus went about doing good”. The trip will come just two days before Francis’s 88th birthday on December 17.
