[lupie]

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.

[magisterium]

I didn’t get the impression that she expected the water to do anything. She was just drinking it to keep it from being profaned in the airport trash. After all, unlike the water hawked on the lourdes-water.org site mentioned in the article, this water was *known* by the passenger to be the genuine article, since she procured it on site in Lourdes.

There is no implication from the context that she expected a cure or anything from the water. Indeed, she may have been bringing it home for someone other than herself.

[tiki]

Holy water cannot just be disposed of down the drain. It is Holy, it has been blessed and must be disposed of in a correct manner. The woman did the right thing and it is exactly what I would have done.

Through ignorance non-Catholics make their disagreements moot. If it is their intention to convert Catholics they should at least know what Catholics believe before they disparage the faith of others who truly know their own faith. Why would any Catholic consider their words against their church when they make their ignorance obvious.