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Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, England, offered prayers on Thursday for Queen Elizabeth II, who is reportedly under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle in Scotland with multiple family members traveling to be by her side. The 96-year-old British monarch has been on a summer break at her Scottish home since July, the BBC reported. As of Thursday afternoon, all the queen’s children were traveling to or had arrived at the castle. Since her reign began in 1952, Queen Elizabeth has met five popes. In 2010, she welcomed then Pope Benedict XVI to the UK, the first state visit of a pope to the country. Saint John Paul II had visited the UK and met with the queen in 1982, but his was a pastoral rather than a state visit.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252239/cardinal-nichols-prays-for-queen-elizabeth-ii-amid-concerns-about-her-health
A statue of Our Lady of Fatima, stolen from Catholic church in New Jersey last week has been recovered and an arrest has been made. The statue was stolen from Saint Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Gibbsboro, New Jersey on August 30. Monsignor Louis Marucci, the pastor, said that he was praying that it would be returned before today, The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the day on which the parish always holds a litany of prayers from sunup to sundown in honor of Mary. A 64 year old suspect has been charged with the theft. Marucci praised the police for their efforts in finding the suspect. He also said that the parish’s security system and cameras were instrumental in capturing footage of the suspect in that act.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252233/our-lady-of-fatima-statue-stolen-from-catholic-church-in-nj-found-arrest-made
Today, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, nine months after the December 8 celebration of her Immaculate Conception as the child of Saints Joachim and Anne. The circumstances of the Virgin Mary's infancy and early life are not directly recorded in the Bible, but other documents and traditions describing the circumstances of her birth are cited by some of the earliest Christian writers from the first centuries of the Church.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/the-birth-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-357