I Would Love to Play Poker Against a Team of Theologians

According to the Telegraph, a shrine in France has been officially recognised by the Vatican.

Notre Dame du Laus, which already draws some 120,000 pilgrims each year, was formally acknowledged by the Vatican after three years of research into its credentials by a team of theologians, historians and psychologists.

Its ‘credentials’ are that a young shepherdess claims to have seen the virgin Mary appear there. So the options are:

1. this really happened, or
2. she is a nutter.

There’s surely no chance she’s a nutter, is there?

The shepherdess was described by one observer as the French champion of apparitions, because she saw the Virgin Mary around 2,500 times over 54 years ’“ averaging once a week.

That’s okay, then.