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How Pope Francis used a donated Lamborghini to help rebuild Iraqi Christian communities
Pope Francis blesses a Lamborghini Huracán at the Vatican on Nov. 15, 2017. Credit: L’Osservatore Romano via CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 3, 2021 / 06:15 am MT (CNA).- Christians in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains were able to rebuild a nursery school and other facilities destroyed by the Islamic State thanks to a custom Lamborghini auctioned off by Pope Francis.
Huzzah! Or, what a bawdy "historical" drama can teach us about Church reform
Cover image © Hulu “I’m happy to hear anyone’s problems with me. Don’t worry about the bodies.” Peter III of Russia stands before his royal court, with several human corpses hanging behind him from the rafters in his palace. The emperor has survived a poisoning attempt, and the bodies belong to everyone known to have handled the food before the emperor ate it: the footman, the chef, the kitchen helpers, the farmer who grew the produce. Peter is shocked that someone out there might not love him.
French investigator: As many as 10 thousand victims of clerical sexual abuse
The man leading a commission established by France’s Catholic bishops to investigate clerical sexual abuse and hierarchical coverup has said that Church officials vastly underestimated the number of victims over the past 70 years, and that the real number of victims could be closer to 10 thousand.
279 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped last week have been released
Hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped from a state boarding school in the north west Nigeria state of Zamfara last week have been released, a local official announced. “It gladdens my heart to announce the release of the abducted students of GGSS Jangebe from captivity,” Zamfara state governor Bellow Matawalle tweeted. “Our daughters are safe now.” Though authorities had first declared that 317 girls were abducted, Matawalle announced that the correct figure was 279.
Sometimes We Must Speak Ill of the Dead
It’s not helpful when someone like a public figure dies, and the criticism starts, to say De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Speak only good things about the dead, yes, usually. When the dead one is the neighbor who yelled “Get off my lawn” when the neighborhood children weren’t on his lawn. Or the sour woman whose every word was a complaint or a criticism. People whose sins and failings were pedestrian, typical, local.
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