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, ...

Have you ever heard the phrase “there must be something in the water”? I probably first started to understand this notion 50 years ago, as a Catholic kid growing up during “The Exorcist” cultural ...

You need only go back to the first chapter of Genesis to see how elemental water is to the observance of faith: "And the Spirit of God," the Bible says, "moved upon the face of the waters." In the ...

[Note: This is part of a series, told in first-person by local faith leaders, illuminating the rituals and traditions around dying.] This is an edited version of a conversation Liisa Ogburn had with ...

Father Timothy Pelc thought he would have a little fun on Easter – and observe social distancing, of course – by using a plastic squirt gun to dispense holy water on parishioners. A month later, the ...

I recently received some holy water — a gift I fear I may not have properly appreciated — and, having left the jug on our porch to freeze, I have begun to suspect that I might be suffering the ...

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 intestinal ...

When it comes to getting rid of the devil, it’s by any means necessary, right? And that includes air dropping holy water on a Columbian town. Newsweek reports that Monsignor Rubén Darío Jaramillo ...