I wasn't fooled for one moment by this cheap attempt to cash in on the Virgin Mary on Feta craze. What with people seeing holy images and experiencing uplifting visitations on toasted cheese, chocolate drops and griller grunge, it was only a matter...

Marge Simpson is a church-going woman. She's respectable, polite and proper, a virtuous woman, worthy and well thought of in her community. She's always tried her best to get some manners into her oafish old man and that impertinent brat of a boy who...

Three cheers for Elena Bodnar, who received the public health accolade for a dual-use brassiere at the Ig Nobel Prizes this year. A former resident of Ukraine. Bodnar was present at the time of the Chernobyl accident, and knows the importance of...

Holy Mary is back, this time in a tree stump in Ireland! The (literally) unbelievable appearance of the BVM in the recently pruned-back stump of a tree has delighted local shopkeepers and Bed and Breakfast proprietors in Rathkeale, Co...

With all of these new sightings of Mary (the BVM) around the globe, I've been searching for a Holy Apparition myself. Surely someone like myself, the original rose-petal strewer at St Fidelis parish church and steeped from an early impressionable...