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An abandoned wreck of a Rolls Royce car which once belonged to US army legend Dwight Eisenhower during World War Two has been found and restored. Now the magnificent vehicle has been painstakingly put back together. Pat Jeater has spent 11 years lovingly restoring the the car used by Eisenhower back in 1944. After the 1940s it ended up being used as a wedding car and a taxi in Amsterdam. The letter: "I also found a copy of the Italian paper La Stampa - it was dated 12th April 1944." Pat found that the letter had been written by a...

Christian faith is a scandal. God has become weak flesh and has decided that this involvement with the life of each and every man and woman be permanent in history through the Church. We are the Church: fragile, stubborn, and limited. God has deeply submerged Godself into our finite and clumsy humanity, and your and my humanity has also been deeply submerged in that tender embrace of that same God. From that moment on, the whole Christian path is marked by the pedagogy of following a concrete flesh that teaches me and accompanies me. We do not follow an idea;...