Nearer to Thee

That Brazilian Roman Catholic priest who yesterday was lifted into the sky by a giant cluster of small multicolored helium-filled party balloons, then disappeared into the air, and eight hours later went officially missing, was trying to raise money to create a spiritual rest stop for truckers. Those priests and their love of rest-stop truckers! The religious dude is still missing today, and although a fire commander reckoned there was an 80% chance of his being alive, a newspaper reporter said, "What we're hearing now is that he did not know how to use his equipment, the GPS, and he was ill-prepared for his flight." (CBC News)

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