Fats Domino is missing

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I hope Americans do not misunderstand me when I say that this is one of the most terrible news yet to come from that place of horror. This man has given the whole world so much pleasure, so much joy. He would not deserve, if that were the case (as I pray God is not), to die in a whirl of filthy water. But then, so many others have died similarly undeserved deaths. May the Lord receive them.

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In a word, no. In fact, there is a tradition within the Catholic Church of regarding poverty as a blessing - though this is more a matter of sentiment than dogma - and Catholic priests and other religious (monks, friars, nuns) make vows of poverty as well as of chastity and obedience. I may add that the Orthodox Churches are also of a similar mind. Our reward,if any, is not in this world.