Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Riches Do Not Help When You Are Dead.

I am reminded of the apocryphal story of the rich man who 'beat the system' and managed to take his gold bars with him. At the gates of heaven Peter asked "Why have you brought paving stones with you?" 
(Blogger's warning! This story is theologically unsound on a number of levels!)

Taybeh.

  Cardinal visits struggling Taybeh in solidarity. The ruins of the Church of St George lie in the Christian West Bank town of Taybeh. (Phot...