Medical staff perform COVID-19 tests at the Mother of Mercy Clinic for the homeless, funded by the Office of Papal Charities, next to the colonnade of St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, on Nov. 14, 2020.

‘A society is all the more human to the degree that it cares effectively for its most frail and suffering members, in a spirit of fraternal love,’ the Holy Father wrote in his message for the 29th World Day of the Sick.