The Virgin Weeps?

Or maybe not says Pope Francis.

Virgin Mary apparitions ‘not always real’, says Pope after statue row

Quote:

Apparitions of the Virgin Mary are “not always real”, Pope Francis has said, in what appears to be an indirect reference to a woman who drew thousands of pilgrims to a town near Rome to pray before a statue that she claimed shed tears of blood. “Don’t look there,” the pontiff said during an interview with Rai 1 on Sunday when asked about apparitions of the Virgin Mary. “There are images of the Madonna that are real, but the Madonna has never drawn [attention] to herself,” he said. “I like to see her with her finger pointing up to Jesus. When Marian devotion is too self-centred, it’s not good. Both in the devotion and in the people who carry it forward.”

Creeping up on reality one small step at a time. :hit:

(Pigs' blood, apparently.)

via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/Q4iRJxA