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Pope's Peace Doves Attacked

SYMBOLIC?

A seagull and crow did not take kindly to them.

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This is why we don't have world peace. In a gesture that should have been quietly moving, children standing alongside Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square released white doves. However, a seagull and a large black crow that were set free from a window of the Apostolic Palace swooped down to attack the doves, bruising two and causing one to lose its feathers. We can only assume the children were traumatized.

Read it at The Guardian