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The Pope underwent a CT scan of his chest and abdomen this morning, after running a fever during his hospitalization. A Vatican spokesperson said the scans were routine and found nothing of concern. Pope Francis is at a Roman hospital recovering from a surgery that removed part of his colon.
Pope Francis has offered his condolences to the Haitian people, after their president was assassinated in his home Wednesday, by a group of gunmen. The pope received the president in a private audience in 2018. The two men discussed Haiti’s social problems, including severe poverty. Haitian police have said that four of the suspected gunmen were killed and two others have been arrested.
A statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in North Carolina was vandalized and restored this past weekend. The statue stands in front of the basilica in Asheville, North Carolina. The statue was splashed with red paint from the neck down to the base on Sunday morning. The statue was fully cleaned by noon Mass that day.
The religious order founded by Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the saint’s canonization. St. Frances was an Italian missionary. She died in 1917, after spending much of her life working with Italian immigrants in the United States.
Today the Church celebrates the feast of Saints Aquila and Priscilla. They were a Jewish couple from Rome who had been exiled to Corinth. They were friends of Saint Paul in the first century, and were likely converted by him. According to tradition, they were martyred in Rome.