Even so, no reputable distributor would charge such a price, and the authorities at Lourdes who grant concessions to distributors would never allow such exorbitant rates. Given that lourdes-water.org also links to products from Medjugorje, a highly dubious “apparition site,” one wonders how well affiliated they are with the Church to get a distributorship in the first place. I also notice that they let Aquafina describe how their water is purified! I think they let slip something here about the nature of their water in the fine print...
No knowledgable Catholic would deny that there are hucksters and charlatans out there preying on the gullible. But we are certainly not alone within the Christian camp in that sort of victimization. I’ll leave it to you to figure out the various frauds underway within the various denominations.
I don’t think that the article made the claim that is was an RCC site. Just that one site sells it for that amount. How sad that the woman actually drank it, thinking it would do anything more than any other water of the same purity. Sad.