virgin mary

Or maybe not says Pope Francis. Virgin Mary apparitions ‘not always real’, says Pope after statue row Creeping up on reality one small step at a time. :hit: (Pigs' blood, apparently.)

So this year's hot button in Mormonism is Heavenly Mother. That is, in Mormon doctrine God has a wife who bears spiritual children. These days the growing feminism movement has focused more attention on the possible veneration of Heavenly Mother. This has been heretofore forbidden. In the...

She has appeared at 6.40pm every day for the last 8,000 days. She converses in Croatian and then floats away on her cloud. Video here of the apparition as it happens. How do we know it is happening? Because the 'seer' says he sees Mary and so the pilgrims leave satisfied. What further evidence...

The latest "sighting": Full: AFP/Yahoo News and more at the LA Times Bad quality video: 92SvKR7ZKn4

From this Telegraph article, yet another doozy from the Pope: Pseudo-mystics who claim a direct line to God--sounds oddly familiar, doesn't it?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/11/wmary111.xml Is seeing an image of the Virgin Mary really worth the risk of losing one's sight?

If there was a human being named Jesus Christ, he was created by sex. Not by some deity sticking his seed into a human woman's womb. I don't know why I felt the need to point this out, other than that it gives me an opportunity to create a parody thread. But I didn't create it by sex. Whatever.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/15/charles_darwin_appar.html Amazing! Is it a sign? If so, what does it mean?

The end of the apparition is prematurely reported. It seems that the seepage of 'Our Lady of the Underpass' has broken through the coat of paint, as might be expected. The nonsense is going on as strong as ever. Candles, flowers, and yes teddy bears, honor the apparition...

Any religious theologians on board? Did Joseph go around telling everyone that it wasn't *he* who got Mary pregnant? Would Mary have subjected herself to ridicule by claiming her baby was holy because she never did it with anyone? I don't know if this anecdotal claim is true or not...but I...