Nancy Scola: "I forgive. I forgive."

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September 18, 2006

"I forgive. I forgive."

The reported last words of Sister Leonella/Rosa Sgorbati, the Catholic nun killed by gunfire yesterday in north Mogadishu, Somalia in what many are seeing as a reaction to Pope Benedict's citing of a 14th-century text that called Mohammed's legacy "things only evil and inhuman."

That's what you call one hell of a lady.

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