Gloria.TV News on the 19th of August 2013
Father donates a kidney: 31-year-old Father Jonathan Goertz of St. Timothy Parish in Tappahannock, Richmond Diocese, wished to donate a kidney according to Catholic News Service. He was tested and introduced into the National Living Kidney Register. They found a match in his own parish: 60-year-old Bruce McComb. In 2002, he had received a kidney from his wife but his body later rejected it. The night before the surgery, Father Jonathan anointed Mr. McComb. "It's rare that the donor anoints the receiver," Bruce McComb said later.
No Christ: Located between France and Spain, the tiny principality of Andorra wanted to put one of its most celebrated artistic works, the Christ Pantocrator of the Romanic church of Sant Martí de la Cortinada, on its two Euro coin. But, the European Union and the European Central Bank ordered Christ removed from the coin. Now, simply a belltower will remain on the coin. The tiny nation that has a Bishop as one of its …More