Austrian scientists find 86 percent of holy water contains fecal matter. Sept. 14, 2013— -- Despite its purported cleansing properties, holy water could actually be more harmful than healing ...

On the basis of age-old custom, water is one of the signs that the Church often uses in blessing the faithful. Holy water reminds the faithful of Christ, who is given to us as the supreme divine ...

A Roman Catholic church in rural Louisiana hoping to maximize its blessings has come up with a way to do it: filling up a crop-duster plane with holy water and letting the sanctified liquid mist ...

When getting blessed, you might also be getting sick. Researchers say holy water could actually be harmful to your health, as some of it contains fecal matter. "Austrian scientists tested water ...

In January 2025, seven people in Europe came down with cholera after sipping or splashing themselves with holy water brought from a sacred Ethiopian well. The holy water, it turns out, was teeming ...

We have a river in India called the Ganges—it is the source of our holy water. We put a few drops of holy water in the mouth because we believe, if they get holy water, then they may get ...

"Putting holy water into a squirt gun and treating it as if it were a comedy sketch on SNL is treating both the sacrament and the blessed water unworthily," said Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, assistant ...