December 8: the final day of the council had arrived. A huge crowd, estimated at 300,000 people, gathered in St. Peter's Square for an outdoor mass closing the council. The mass was broadcast worldwide by radio and television. The Pope's homily was addressed to all humanity because for the Church "no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is distant".
December 8: the final day of the council had arrived. A huge crowd estimated at 300,000 p.eople, gathered in St. Peter's Square for an outdoor mass closing the council. The mass was broadcast worldwide by radio and television The Pope's homily was addressed to all humanity because for the Church "no one i,s a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is distant".