{"id":45783,"date":"2021-01-05T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/01\/05\/vatican-cancels-baptisms-presided-over-by-the-pope-due-to-the-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T13:10:00","slug":"vatican-cancels-baptisms-presided-over-by-the-pope-due-to-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/01\/05\/vatican-cancels-baptisms-presided-over-by-the-pope-due-to-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican cancels baptisms presided over by the pope due to the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a <strong>precautionary measure against the pandemic<\/strong>, the Vatican has canceled one of the most touching ceremonies the pope celebrates each year: the <strong>Baptism of infants<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ceremony was not officially announced<\/strong>, but according to custom, it should have been held <strong>next Sunday<\/strong>. The Vatican says that this year the children will be baptized in their respective parishes.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Pope Francis baptized 32 infants. They were the<strong> children of Vatican employee<\/strong>s. There he explained to them why it is essential to baptize children at an early age.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u201cBaptizing a child is an act of justice. Why? Because in Baptism, we give him or her a treasure. In Baptism, we give them a gift: the Holy Spirit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope usually celebrates these baptisms on the day of the <strong>Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord<\/strong>. It is an impressive ceremony held inside the Sistine Chapel. The pope is usually very touched and always makes the families of the young ones feel at home there.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi<\/p>\n<p>Translation: Christian Campos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 5, 2021. The ceremony had not been officially announced, but according to custom it should have been held next Sunday inside the Sistine Chapel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y-N23oEp9m4","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbattesimivaticanoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbattesimivaticanoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}