Thieves steal vial of Pope John Paul II’s blood from priest’s backpack in Italy

aloisstmartin, all that "reverence" has lead to the greatest church scandal in Irish history. Time to get back to the basics which is love God with your whole heart and your whole soul and your neighbor as yourself. All the rest is rubbish.

ellenfromcork@ ... ? Would the reverence for Ireland`s Natural Heritage, also qualify as Idolizing of Dead Peoples Body Parts ? Or perhaps even the the Torn and Bloody Image of our Lord upon the Cross, Itself ? Of what Good is Communion, or even Tradition, Ethic, or Morality, at all ? I. would like to return in 2012 years and see, what sort of Ireland had become, of your Agnostic Materialist Modernist "Democracy" ? Tell you this; If the Catholic Church were allowed Religious Freedom within the realms of a Real I.R.A. sponsored Government,( the IRSP, CPA, Sinn Fein, etc. )such insult to Irish National Pride and Heritage, would be unheard of !

When in the name of all that is sensible will we get beyond the idolizing of dead peoples body parts?! A vial of old clotted blood, what medieval nonsense!