Imagine risking your life to save those tasteless cookies to, I guess, not offend the man in the sky.
French priest enters burning church to save Blessed Sacrament
The deputy mayor called Fr. Roussel at 4 a.m. to let him know the church was burning. According to an unofficial English translation of the report, Fr. Roussel said, “I went to the scene immediately. Everything caught fire very quickly; the bell tower burned like a torch…”
He entered the church with the firefighters’ permission. Fr. Roussel explained, “I wanted to evacuate the Blessed Sacrament (consecrated hosts) and the reliquary bust of Saint Cornelius,” and he successfully rescued the Eucharist and the relic from the fire. He was also able to save a few statues.
https://catholicvote.org/french-priest-e...sacrament/
French priest enters burning church to save Blessed Sacrament
The deputy mayor called Fr. Roussel at 4 a.m. to let him know the church was burning. According to an unofficial English translation of the report, Fr. Roussel said, “I went to the scene immediately. Everything caught fire very quickly; the bell tower burned like a torch…”
He entered the church with the firefighters’ permission. Fr. Roussel explained, “I wanted to evacuate the Blessed Sacrament (consecrated hosts) and the reliquary bust of Saint Cornelius,” and he successfully rescued the Eucharist and the relic from the fire. He was also able to save a few statues.
https://catholicvote.org/french-priest-e...sacrament/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"