The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is condemning an episode of "South Park" for 'defiling' the Virgin Mary. The cartoon, which runs on Comedy Central, features an episode this week titled "Bloody Mary," in which a South Park character claims to have been sprayed with blood from a body orifice of a Virgin Mary statue. When Pope Benedict investigates, he declares that she's just having her period, according to the Associated Press.

The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is condemning an episode of "South Park" for 'defiling' the Virgin Mary. The cartoon, which runs on Comedy Central, features an episode this week titled "Bloody Mary," in which a South Park character claims to have been sprayed with blood from a body orifice of a Virgin Mary statue. When Pope Benedict investigates, he declares that she's just having her period, according to the Associated Press.

A West Virginia law clerk says is blessed by two Funyun snacks shaped like baby Jesus and the Virgin Mary. John Mize says he discovered the religious figures in a pile of the crushed onion-flavored chips under his car seat.

True believers are flocking to the Vietnamese Catholic Martyrs Church in Sacramento, where red liquid is apparently dripping from the left eye of a statue of the Virgin Mary. Crowds of pilgrims are filing in by the hundreds, carrying cameras, flowers and candles. Many pray for blessings, like Bao and Amber Tran, who brought their newborn son.

A Long Island man won the grilled cheese-eating championship at the Arkansas State Fair on Saturday, stuffing down 19 sandwiches in the 10-minute race. The prize for Ed "Cookie" Jarvis, of Nesconset, N. Y. , was $1,000. He will join other first-place winner in competing for the world championship title at a time and place yet to be announced. Second place went to Patrick Philbin of Moonachie, N. J. , who devoured 17 and a half sandwiches.