Monday, August 29, 2011

Straight up Idolatry


A woman kisses the glass case containing a wax figure of Pope John Paul II with relics and a vial of the ex-pontiff's blood at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Thursday Aug. 25 2011. Relics of Pope John Paul II have arrived for public display in Mexico City for a four-month tour of the country, the third country most visited country by the pope, behind his homeland of Poland and France. He died in 2005 at the age of 84. He was beatified in May. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)