Pope continues recovery, expresses closeness to hospitalized children (Vatican News) Pope Francis is recovering well after intestinal surgery he underwent on Sunday at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See Press office, said in his update on the Pope on Thursday. It was a “quiet day for the Pope” and his chest-abdomen CT scan was negative, “His Holiness Pope Francis spent a quiet day, eating and moving around independently on his own,” Bruni said. “In the afternoon he wanted to show his paternal closeness to the little patients of the nearby Pediatric Oncology and Child Neurosurgery ward, sending them his affectionate greeting…”
Florida condo collapse claims Catholic family of four (National Catholic Register) As rescue efforts continue in Surfside, Florida, after a condominium collapsed in the early morning hours of June 24, a Catholic family of four was laid to rest Tuesday, the second Catholic funeral for victims of the incident that has now claimed the lives of 46 people…
Man detained after climbing to top of LA church (AP) A man who was naked except for shorts and one sock climbed to the top of a soaring church tower in East Los Angeles Wednesday night, set a fire at the base of a cross, then apparently tried to evade surrounding police by leaping from roof to roof of nearby buildings before he was taken into custody. It was unclear what prompted the man to climb up scaffolding at St. Mary’s, a Roman Catholic church in Boyle Heights…
Haitian Church stunned by president’s murder (CNS) Bishop Alphonse Quesnel of Fort Liberté, Haiti, said the Haitian Church was “stunned” by the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. “We bishops must not only call for calm but also for all Haitians to sit down together, change the way they look at each other, and seek together the way forward,” the bishop told Vatican News hours after the Haitian president was gunned down by unknown assailants in the bedroom of his residence early July 7. His wife, Martine Moïse, was injured in the attack. The Associated Press reported she was in stable condition…
Abortion activists write children’s book about abortion (CNA) Two women who call themselves “abortion doulas” are authoring a children’s book about abortion. Carly Manes and M recently designed a new children’s book called “What’s an Abortion, Anyway?” The book will be available to young children by fall 2021. Described as a “nonjudgmental book about abortion for children,” the creators say they “believe in building a world for kids and adults where abortion is normalized as another outcome of pregnancy just like miscarriage and birth…”
