http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/t...the-tears/
EXCERPT: In a church in New Mexico, there is a statue of the Virgin Mary "weeping" olive oil in a phenomenon that has baffled church leaders. [...] The event has brought a huge number of people to the church looking for conversion, confession, and just to see it happen. [...] Experts have analyzed the substance and believe it is olive oil mixed with perfume, similar in composition to chrism [...] Now, a skeptic might point out how easy it is to find chrism in a Catholic church and use it to concoct a hoax in an attempt to bring more people into the church. The diocese’s officials don’t believe this is the case. They have cameras in the church that apparently showed no man-made explanation. [...] Hoaxes are so easy to do that the Catholic Church itself either moves pretty quickly with investigators or [...] lets it play out. Only a couple of weeping statues have been recognized by the Church....
MORE: http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/t...the-tears/
EXCERPT: In a church in New Mexico, there is a statue of the Virgin Mary "weeping" olive oil in a phenomenon that has baffled church leaders. [...] The event has brought a huge number of people to the church looking for conversion, confession, and just to see it happen. [...] Experts have analyzed the substance and believe it is olive oil mixed with perfume, similar in composition to chrism [...] Now, a skeptic might point out how easy it is to find chrism in a Catholic church and use it to concoct a hoax in an attempt to bring more people into the church. The diocese’s officials don’t believe this is the case. They have cameras in the church that apparently showed no man-made explanation. [...] Hoaxes are so easy to do that the Catholic Church itself either moves pretty quickly with investigators or [...] lets it play out. Only a couple of weeping statues have been recognized by the Church....
MORE: http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/t...the-tears/