Silly balloons
One wonders where the children, and the Pope, imagine these balloons will end up. Do they think they’ll go to heaven?
Unfortunately, they’ll end up on land or water as pollutants and a nuisance and a menace to the “birds and other creatures of the wild” which St Francis of Assisi, whose name the Pope adopted, loved.
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Hide AdSuch well-intentioned releases occur all over the world without the organisers realising the environmental damage they are causing. Shame on the Vatican for allowing it.
Steuart Campbell
Dovecot Loan