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Vatican clamps down on sales of papal blessing scrolls

Friday, September 12th, 2014

The Vatican is restricting the sale of plaques and parchments with papal blessings, stopping Rome souvenir shops selling them from next year. Shops close to St Peter’s Square have been selling such blessings at a considerable profit. But Bishop Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, said that beginning on January 1, 2015, such papal blessings will Read more