Pope Francis speaks on phone at end of general audience

Hannah Brockhaus   By Hannah Brockhaus for CNA

August 11, 2021 Catholic News Agency News Briefs 4 Print

Pope Francis spoke on the phone at the end of his general audience Aug. 11, 2021. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA.

Vatican City, Aug 11, 2021 / 04:15 am (CNA).

Pope Francis made an unknown phone call at the end of his weekly general audience on Wednesday.

A livestream video of the Aug. 11 audience in the Vatican’s Pope Paul VI Hall showed the pope giving his apostolic blessing, then being approached by one of his assistants. The two could be seen speaking together for a moment before Pope Francis was handed a cellphone which he put to his ear.

According to people present in the hall, the pope spoke on the phone for around two minutes, then gestured to the crowd that he would return soon and left the room. He came back shortly afterward to greet the people gathered to see him.

No other information is currently known about the mysterious phone call.

The moment took place at the end of Pope Francis’ Wednesday general audience, after the Our Father was prayed in Latin.

The papal audiences were paused during July for a summer break, but have resumed this month.

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Mosul, Iraq, Mar 29, 2021 / 05:10 pm (CNA).- A statue of the Virgin Mary that had been desecrated by the Islamic State but was later restored has been returned to its original church.

The statue was decapitated, and its hands cut off, in Karemlesh, a largely Christian town 18 miles east of Mosul, during the Islamic State’s occupation of the villages in the Nineveh Plains from 2014 to 2017. It belongs to St. Adday church.

The statue has been partially restored. The original head was found in the rubble when the statue was recovered.

The head has been placed back onto the statue in a manner that still shows the damage from where it had been decapitated, and the hands dangle below the wrist.

It was present at Pope Francis’ March 7 Mass in Erbil.

The statue returned to Karemlesh March 18, and on March 19 it was placed in St. Adday church with a simple ceremony.

“Having Her here is a sign of courage and bravery for our people. That everyone can see that the destroyed and restored image returns to the church with a new appearance is a beautiful sign. This encourages them to have the courage to continue,” Fr. Thabet Habeb, pastor of St. Adday, told CNA.

He added that “after the Pope’s visit, we hope that there may be some attention to the Chaldean community.”

The Islamic State swept through large swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014, giving families of Christians and other religious and ethnic minorities an ultimatum – convert to Islam, die, or leave.

In 2017 the Nineveh Plain was liberated from the rule of the Islamic State.


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3 Comments

  2. Stay tuned!

    Was it confirmation that an asteroid or UFO is hurtling toward earth?
    Biden. St. Peter. God.

    Maybe the mailman arrived with another bullet.

    Could it be that COVID test results or biopsy turned up positive.

    Or it’s long past time for a bag-change.

    Dominus Vobiscum: May we all cope well in the interim and may Mary protect us from whatever evil plans next.

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