Covid-19: Pope Will Not Celebrate Baptisms in Sistine Chapel

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Pope Francis will not celebrate the Sacrament of Baptism for babies in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel this year.

Pope Francis will not hold this year’s traditional Baptism of infants in the Vatican’s famed Sistine Chapel on Sunday, 10 January, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Holy See’s Press Office announced on Tuesday.

“Due to the health situation, as a precautionary measure, the traditional baptism of children presided over by the Holy Father in the Sistine Chapel on the Sunday of the Baptism of the Lord will not be celebrated this year,” the Holy See’s Press Office said in a brief note on Tuesday.

The tradition of baptizing children amidst the splendour of Michelangelo frescos in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, where Popes are elected, was started by Pope St. John Paul II.

The Vatican’s website says that on 11 January 1981, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, the Polish Pope administered Baptism to 9 infants in the Vatican’s Pauline Chapel, which is separated from the Sistine Chapel by the Sala Regia. The following year he baptised 13 new-born babies and, in 1983, 20 infants.

Any so called Catholic support of Biden best consider this:
A BIDEN WIN WILL BE AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19

Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.

Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership wave the American flag and present Trump’s name when doing so. All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump.

Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.When they released it that was the CCP intention but it got away from them and went world wide

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