The Dove of Peace to Rise Again project was a major undertaking. The steel construction of the dove incorporated pipes varying in diameter from 40 centimetres, tapering to 15-centimetre wing tips ...

In this , Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 file photo, a dove which was freed by children with Pope Francis during his Angelus prayer, is attacked by a black crow in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican.

It is meant to shock and it does: a 13-foot-high statue of a bird that looks as if one eye has been gouged out found its home ...

But after the doves were attacked by seagulls in 2014, pope Francis and the children yesterday, released balloons into St. Peter's Square.