Thieves Steal Pope John Paul's Blood from Italy Church

Thieves broke into a small church in the mountains east of Rome over the weekend and stole a reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II, a custodian said on Monday.   Dozens of police with sniffer dogs scoured the remote area for clues to what the Italian Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana called “a sacrilegious theft that was probably commissioned by someone”.   Franca Corrieri told Reuters she had discovered a broken window early on Sunday morning and had called...

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