Top 5 news stories of the week on Pope Francis and the Vatican #October2022

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👉🏻 Sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/ewtn/vatican Hello and welcome to this week’s Vaticano Updates – the most important news from the Holy Father and the Vatican. Top 1 – Two new saints: St. Artemide Zatti and St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini The Catholic Church gained two new saints as Pope Francis canonized St. Artemide Zatti and St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini. The saints were both born in Italy in the 19th century. Scalabrini is known for founding a missionary order that ministered to immigrants, while Zatti was himself an immigrant, leaving Italy for Argentina with his family at the age of 16. Top 2 – 23 children and several adults killed in Thailand day care attack Pope Francis has expressed deep sorrow and mourning at the news of a deadly rampage at a day care center in Thailand that left at least 34 people dead — 23 of them children. In a telegram signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, the pontiff offered his condolences. According to media reports, the massacre was perpetrated by a single man, armed with a gun and knife, on Oct. 6 in the town of Uthai Sawan, northeast of the capital Bangkok. Top 3 – Public spat between German bishop & Swiss cardinal leads to private meeting in Rome Following demands for an apology and a threat he might “file an official complaint with the Holy Father,” the German Bishops’ Conference president Bishop Bätzing met with a cardinal Koch in Rome. The exchange was the result of a disagreement over Kochs’ remarks involving “German Christians,” Nazi ideology, and theological claims of a key document of the German Synodal Way. Top 4 – ‘Saints do not come from a parallel universe’ Speaking to the “Holiness Today” conference, Pope Francis underlined that saints are not disconnected from the realities of daily life but faithfully live the Gospel to the fullest within the communities in which they find themselves. The Holy Father said: “Saints do not come from a ‘parallel universe’ but are believers who belong to God’s faithful people and are firmly grounded in a daily existence made up of family ties, study, and work, social, economic, and political life”. Top 5 – Preview: Francis to meet Muslim leaders, small Christian community in Bahrain On the first-ever papal visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Pope Francis will close a forum on dialogue, meet with the grand imam of al-Azhar, and pray at a new Catholic cathedral. The Pontiff will visit Bahrain from November 3–6, the theme of the trip is “Peace on earth to people of goodwill”. The population of Bahrain is nearly 70% Muslim, with the majority belonging to the Shiite branch of Islam, the country’s state religion.