Posted on 12/11/2020 6:01:00 PM PST by marshmallow
Vatican City, Dec 9, 2020 / 06:00 am MT (CNA).- Christmas at the Vatican will be a little different this year -- and in keeping with the times, Pope Francis has eschewed a traditional gift for something a bit more practical.
Rather than a bottle of sparkling wine and the traditional Italian holiday cake panettone, the pope’s Christmas present to Vatican employees is over-the-counter flu medicine, according to Italian media.
Pope Francis is giving each of his nearly 4,000 employees five boxes of Vicks day and nighttime flu medicine with acetaminophen, Il Messaggero reported.
It is thought that the idea for the useful winter gift was suggested by the man responsible for distributing the pope’s alms, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, who is known for his hands-on approach to helping Rome’s poor and homeless.
The custom Christmas gift is being distributed as the Vatican faces more financial losses with a new closure of the Vatican Museums, the city state's largest income stream.
Since Nov. 3, the Italian government has decreed that all museums in the country will be closed to the public at least through Jan. 15, 2021, as one of the measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
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I think that the Pope just won the Grinch of the Year award.
They used to get a bottle of Prosecco and a panettone. Still frugal, but a lot more festive than a packet of acetaminophen.
Hope it is not “Wuhan Flu Medicine” made from infected bats and pangolins. That would give new meaning to the term “Chinese carry-out” as in “carry you out to the morgue”.
I thought this was the Babylon Bee. But it’s CNA.
What happens if someone dies after using it? Does he get charged with murder?
Forecast 2021
Jan - Biden sword in as Cheater in Charge
Feb- Kraken found washed up on beach in the Bahamas
Mar- Biden found dead from multiple conclusions from falling in the shower
Apr- Harris sworn in as President and immediately orders all guns to be turned in
May- Large astroid hits east coast and sends world into darkness
Jun- Congress charges Trump with failure to have nuclear armed missiles ready to destroy the astroid before hitting earth
Jul- Pope Francis promises to save world if all nations bow down to him and worship a statue of him
Aug- Harris gives Pope Francis authority over the U.S.A.
Sep- Christians who refuse to worship the Pope are executed without trial
Oct- A huge object is spotted in deep space traveling faster than light directly towards earth
Nov- Jesus arrives on a floating city the size of several states, faithful Christians disappear only to be seen in new bodies in the floating city
Dec- Satan, the Pope, and Harris try to make war but Jesus utters a single word and they are defeated and thrown into a bottomless pit
The moral is that even in the gloomiest of times good things can happen.
sword=sworn. Darn autocorrect
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