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Twelve people have been arrested in connection with the shooting of the bishop-elect of a diocese in South Sudan. Three South Sudanese Catholic clerics are reportedly among the suspects. Two armed men attacked the bishop-elect at his residence last weekend. The bishop-elect is now receiving treatment at a medical facility in Nairobi. Local authorities say the attack was an isolated incident.
The pope will hold a consistory in Rome next week. At the consistory, cardinals will vote to approve the canonizations of seven beatified men and women, including Blessed Charles de Foucauld. The French missionary was killed in Algeria in 1916. Only cardinals who are in Rome will take part in the consistory. The vote is the last step in the canonization process for the seven beatified men and women. The canonizations will be the first since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Pope Francis met Monday with a community of Poor Clare nuns, whose monastery was destroyed in a 2009 earthquake. The quake was Italy’s deadliest since 1980, killing more than 300 people, including the abbess of the Poor Clare community. The pope praised the nuns for growing in fraternity and courage despite their losses. The cloistered nuns were able to return to their monastery in 2019. Their community is now flourishing with young vocations.