ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 27, 2025 / 09:50 am

Pope Leo XIV has chosen as the theme for World Day of the Sick 2026: “The compassion of the Samaritan: loving by bearing the pain of others.”

The theme focuses on the Gospel figure of the Good Samaritan, “who shows love by taking care of the wounded and abandoned man on the road,” according to a press release issued by the Holy See.

The Vatican said the theme is meant to emphasize an essential aspect of love of neighbor, one requiring concrete gestures of closeness while being capable of assuming the fragility and suffering of others, particularly those who experience illness accompanied by poverty, isolation, or loneliness.

The Holy See also recalled that today, Christ, the “Good Samaritan,” continues to draw close to wounded humanity and, t

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