Friday, March 24, 2006

The Baltimore Cathedral and Lotteries...

From George Weigel on CatholicExchange this morning:

"Like similar projects down through the ages, the Baltimore Cathedral was originally financed by a lottery, and as luck would have it, Archbishop Carroll, reaching into hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lottery tickets to choose the winner, picked his own ticket — and promptly gave his winnings back to the building fund. (Nary an eyebrow was raised.)"

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