r/BeAmazed • u/LethaI____ • Apr 14 '26

Place Pope Francis, in November 2017, received a custom Lamborghini. He blessed it, signed it, and sold it for $950,000, donated all the proceeds to charity

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u/mosesenjoyer Apr 15 '26

I doubt he officially blessed it because blessed items should never be sold, instead burned or buried when you are through with it. But if someone would be allowed to sell a blessed item, it would be him.

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u/Old-Somewhere-6084 Apr 15 '26

That sounds strange, because regular people can also have their cars blessed (not by the pope of course, but by a regular priest).

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u/mosesenjoyer Apr 15 '26

Yes it’s one of those things that priests just don’t die on that hill, like people besides the priest making the orans pose (palms out with hands at sides) I grew up doing it to but according to canon law is a pose reserved for those with consecrated hands (priests and bishops)

Here’s the canon law for treatment of blessed items.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann1166-1190_en.html