Faithful Flock To 'Weeping' Virgin Mary
Robert Paul Reyes
November 27, 2005
Sacramento may be the capital of California, but the sleepy town located in the fertile Sacramento valley is best known for cows and mediocre professional teams.
Hundreds of the faithful have been making a pilgrimage to Sacramento, not to catch a glimpse of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but to kneel before a statue of the Virgin Mary that has begun crying a substance that resembles blood.
It's too bad that this story's dateline is not some unheard of village in a Third World country, but a state capital in the most technologically advanced country in the world.
Religious malarkey and superstition still reigns supreme in the United States, if it's not a televangelist hawking "prayer cloths", it's a church claiming to possess a weeping statue.
The statue located at the Vietnamese Catholic Martyrs Church, may be discharging a red substance, but anyone who is not a complete idiot will reason that it's either a hoax or a natural process or chemical reaction.
If I see a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping, I won't call a priest or a nun, instead I would do the sensible thing, and go find the janitor so he can clean it up.
Folks who consider a weeping statue as evidence of God's existence, worship a capricious and silly deity.
The Diocese of Sacramento has so far not commented on the "weeping" statue, which begs the question why doesn't the Catholic Church immediately try to put a stop to religious hysteria?
It's crazy televangelists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and weeping statues that make the more enlightened souls in Europe wonder if the United States will ever overcome its religious superstitions.
Hundreds of the faithful have been making a pilgrimage to Sacramento, not to catch a glimpse of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but to kneel before a statue of the Virgin Mary that has begun crying a substance that resembles blood.
It's too bad that this story's dateline is not some unheard of village in a Third World country, but a state capital in the most technologically advanced country in the world.
Religious malarkey and superstition still reigns supreme in the United States, if it's not a televangelist hawking "prayer cloths", it's a church claiming to possess a weeping statue.
The statue located at the Vietnamese Catholic Martyrs Church, may be discharging a red substance, but anyone who is not a complete idiot will reason that it's either a hoax or a natural process or chemical reaction.
If I see a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping, I won't call a priest or a nun, instead I would do the sensible thing, and go find the janitor so he can clean it up.
Folks who consider a weeping statue as evidence of God's existence, worship a capricious and silly deity.
The Diocese of Sacramento has so far not commented on the "weeping" statue, which begs the question why doesn't the Catholic Church immediately try to put a stop to religious hysteria?
It's crazy televangelists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and weeping statues that make the more enlightened souls in Europe wonder if the United States will ever overcome its religious superstitions.
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