The December 2023 issue records papal and Roman Curia acts, including canonization of Lazarus Devasahayam and recognition of Carlo Acutis, Maria Berenice Duque Hencker, Maria Carola Cecchin, and Giuseppe Ambrosoli, with their missions, virtues, miracles, feast days, and canonical procedures. It presents Pope Francis’s calls for Franciscan renewal, concrete charity on the World Day of the Poor, ecclesial maturity and formation through CHARIS, and prayer, stewardship, and service by the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Addresses treat parenthood, youth, hope, cultural heritage, Evangelii gaudium, poverty, inequality, development, climate, corruption, and the rule of law, alongside sacramental guidance for transgender and same-sex-attracted persons and a prohibition of active Freemasonry. Further decrees recognize the heroic virtues of several candidates, including Luisa Guidotti Mistrali, whose medical missionary service in Zimbabwe continued during civil war until her death. The issue records episcopal and Vatican appointments, diplomatic audiences, nuncios, tribunals, labor bodies, and a worldwide necrology. New Institute for the Works of Religion loan regulations set eligibility, preferential purposes, borrowing and repayment limits, application requirements, interest, guarantees, and recovery provisions for Holy See employees. Publication notices announce works on synodality, end-of-life terminology, the Heart of Jesus, and the Jägerstätter family.