"The Light of Faith" (Lumen Fidei)- Pope Francis First Encyclical Letter

Pope Francis on Friday-July 5 will issue his first encyclical and then will travel to Sicily to meet with recently arrived African migrants.

At a pre-Noon briefing today, the Holy See announced that Pope Francis’ first encyclical, entitled Lumen Fidei – “The Light of Faith” – will be released this Friday, 5 July.

A trio of Vatican heavyweights – the prefect of Bishops, Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the CDF chief Archbishop Gerhard Müller and the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization Archbishop Rino Fisichella – are slated to unveil the text at 11am Rome time in the Vatican Press Office.



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