I’m not sure what I find weirdest about this story:

• The Vatican has started an air service, right now just one 737 painted in "yellow-and-white papal livery", offering flights to Lourdes from Rome. They hope to expand service to "Fatima in Portugal, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, and possibly even Jerusalem."  Too bad "Virgin Air" was already taken, huh?
• The in flight refreshment was swordfish  canapes.  What, no peanuts?
• French officials wouldn’t let some of the holy flyers keep their holy water for the return trip, forcing them to abandon their "plastic containers in the shape of the Madonna."  Apparently the plastic Madonna’s held more than the allowable 100ml. One man decided to drink his holy water rather than leave it with security.
• The water from the Lourdes spring is so valuable that it will cost you £64 for a litre.

I wonder how Catholics around the world are feeling about their contributions to the collection plate these days?