Rebuked By Her Example

The elderly Italian nun shot in the back in Somalia, where she spent her life caring for the poor, died crying out

I forgive, I forgive

to her attackers. This account questions whether the attack was provoked by the Pope's words --she already had a bodyguard and joked there was a bullet engraved with her name somewhere. Her death may have had nothing to do with the Pope, might have been a boilerplate murder of a Christian in an Islamic country. The press has no idea what it is talking about --a fact worth remembering in every story every day. The press foments unrest.

But either way, Sr. Leonella, pray for us.