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A new bishop of Wuhan China was ordained Wednesday, under the terms of the Vatican-China deal. The bishop is the sixth to be consecrated in China under the deal. He is a Franciscan, who is said to be close to the Chinese government. The Wuhan diocese had been without a bishop for the past 14 years.
Mexico’s Supreme Court invalidated several pro-life articles in the penal code of a northern state this week. The decision opens the door to legal abortion, and is expected to have wide-ranging effects throughout Mexico. Elective abortion is legal up to twelve weeks of pregnancy in Mexico City and three states.
Six nuns from the same convent in Brazil died in less than a week. Five of the nuns died from COVID-19. The nuns lived at the convent of the Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Family of Mary. They ranged in age from 70 to 95. The sisters do not know how the virus got into the convent.
Pope Francis sent 15,000 ice creams to prisoners in Rome this week. This summer is one of the hottest on record in Italy. The island of Sicily registered a temperature of 119 degrees Fahrenheit in August, believed to be the highest ever recorded in Europe.
The Catholic Church celebrates today the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The circumstances of Mary’s infancy and early life are not directly recorded in the Bible, but it is cited by some of the earliest Christian writers from the first centuries of the Church.