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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Holy water from an Ethiopian well, renowned for its "healing properties," barely evaded sparking a cholera outbreak. The well was implicated in the infection of at least seven individuals ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brady, who is Catholic, said he believes the water is holy. He poured the rest into a bottle and plans to sprinkle it on his grandchildren. “I’m sure it’s blessed if the Pope drank out of it.

European tourists who toted home bottles of water from a holy well in Ethiopia were likely hoping for blessings and spiritual cleansing—but instead carried an infectious curse and got an ...

"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 ...