Angelus News | July 12, 2024 | Vol. 9 No. 14

WORLD
■ Italian mother completes
key step toward sainthood
The sainthood cause of Chiara Corbella
Petrillo, an Italian mother who
refused cancer treatment to save her
unborn child, has taken an important
step forward.
On June 21, the Diocese of Rome
completed the cause’s diocesan phase,
a period of intense investigation into
Corbella’s life and virtue.
Born in 1984, Corbella married
Enrico Petrillo in 2008. Their first two
children died of physical abnormalities
shortly after they were born and
while pregnant with her third child,
Francesco, Petrillo was diagnosed with
carcinoma of the tongue and delayed
treatment until after she gave birth. She
died in 2012 at 28 years old.
“If the Lord has chosen this for me, it
means that it is better this way for me
and for those around me,” Petrillo told
her mother, according to a diocesan
edict. “Therefore, I am happy.”
Ready for reconciliation — Archbishop J. Michael Miller of Vancouver, Canada, joined spokeswoman Racelle
Kooy (top right), and Chief Rosanne Casimir, both of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, to answer
questions over Zoom June 26 about the “Sacred Covenant” signed earlier this year. The agreement recognized
the Catholic Church’s role in a government education program at Canadian residential schools that were
administered by some religious orders over nearly 100 years, and pledged to learn more. The native tribe is
currently investigating a radar survey’s discovery in 2021 of more than 200 suspected burial sites near one of
the residential schools in Kamloops, British Columbia. | COURTESY B.C. CATHOLIC VIA OSV NEWS
■ Churches begin to rise in Egypt
Christians have begun rebuilding churches in Egypt as legal encumbrances
against the religious minority ease.
“Now that the government has lifted the obstacles to building new churches,
all the dioceses have building projects,” Archbishop Ibrahim Sidrak, Coptic
Catholic patriarch of Alexandria, told Aid to the Church in Need International
in a June 19 report.
Construction projects include the restoration of the Luxor Cathedral, which
burned down in 2016.
“Churches are the heart of our communities and are difficult to access for
many parishioners. Those who live far away have to spend up to a quarter of
their salary to be able to take their family by bus to church for Sunday Mass,”
the archbishop said.
Servant of God Chiara Corbella Petrillo months before
her death in 2012. | COURTESY CHIARACORBELLA-
PETRILLO.ORG
■ Vatican City to get energy makeover
The Vatican is “going solar,” Pope Francis announced June 26.
“We need to make a transition toward a sustainable development model that
reduces greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere,” read Fratello Sole
(“Brother Sun”), a motu proprio that announced the change.
Various Vatican governing bodies will coordinate with the Italian government
to have solar energy become the main electricity source for Vatican City. An
“agrivoltaics system” will also be built at Santa Maria di Galeria, a Vatican
territory outside of Rome, for farming and additional solar production.
This effort will add to the 2,400 solar panels that were installed in 2008
during the Pope Benedict XVI pontificate, and follows the Vatican switching to
all-electric cars in 2023.
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