[Mrs. Don-o]

I've got to defend NYer on the "lol". The article didn't say anybody had gotten sick. Not one. Not anywhere. Not ever. They only said that of the billion people who bless themselves with holy water, somebody "could" theoretically get sick if they drank it.

Since it is not Catholic practice to drink holy water, they are issuing a pseudo-news-report expressing pseudo-concern over a pseudo-problem.

It's like "Public alert! Beware, hearing aid batteries! NOT to be taken internally!"

[BipolarBob]

I've got to defend NYer on the "lol".

Of course you have to. You're friends. That's known as an ad-hominem response. First it's nobody drinks it or baptismal font. Then it's yeah some people do drink holy water and baptismal font. Then it's nobody gets sick or dies from it. Then it's some people got sick but it's probably not from that. Then it's some people died but they were going to die anyway so let's all have a BIG lol.

[Arthur McGowan]

Just before a funeral, I would take the top off the big container of holy water, and take the top off the aspergillium, and dunk it in to fill it. My deacon told me not to do that, because lots of people drink Holy Water. It's the only time in my life I've ever heard of people drinking Holy Water. I still agree with you that it's NOT a Catholic practice--even if people do it.