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Good morning, Houston. If anyone out there's looking for a show idea to pitch to MTV, may we suggest The Real World: Monsatery? Based on the statements of Hugh Brian Fallon, a monk from Blanco, The Christ of the Hills monastery would fit right in with the Real World drama: Fallon told authorities that fellow monk Samuel Greene encouraged sex among the monks, offered people marijuana when they were having problems and faked tears...

Good morning, Houston. Even if you don't have a pizza pan with the Virgin Mary's silhouette on it, don't despair: You could still own a half-liter bottle of holy drinking water. The water is being marketed by a man in Stockton, Calif., who has the liquid blessed by Catholic and Anglican priests with plans to expand the line to other faiths as well. One warning: The water's label carries the note that sinners who...

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... Over at Sampaist, spring has more than sprung: it's sweltering! But, as everyone knows, museums are an ideal...

It looks like the story of Our Lady of the Pizza Pan isn't turning out like we expected. Over the weekend, the Chronicle reported that officials at Pugh Elementary — where cafeteria worker Guadalupe Rodriguez discovered the silhouette of the Virgin Mary on a pizza pan on Ash Wednesday — worked out a deal so Rodriguez could keep the pan. But today, when Rodriguez was supposed to pick up the pan, HISD ordered that it...

Big news in Houston this weekend: the Blessed Virgin Mary, that holy trickster known for showing up in all sorts of unexpected places, chose to make an appearance on a pizza pan in a local elementary school kitchen. It happened on Ash Wednesday when Guadalupe Rodriguez, a cafeteria worker at Pugh Elementary, was washing the pizza pan in question and noticed a stubborn stain. "On the third rinse I started watching it, trying to discover...

If your week is turning out anything like Houstonist's, you need a nice midweek pick-me-up. And do we have just the thing for you: in Conroe, the image of Jesus Christ on the floor of a woman's entry hall. Homeowner Anna Glover said she noticed the Redeemer hanging out on her nice tiled floor shortly after she moved into the house almost three years ago: "We’ve been here about three years, three years in November...

Houstonist noted some interesting chocolate incidents in the news recently, including the story of a worker who became trapped in a vat of chocolate (can that really be a bad thing?) and that of an employee at a chocolatier to the rich and famous who saw the Virgin Mary in chocolate drippings. Sure, they were great stories, but for us, they invoked memories of our favorite chocolate cake — iced while it's hot to increase...

So this long weekend is chock full of holidays: National Build a Scarecrow Day tomorrow, Visitation of the Virgin Mary Day on Sunday, Stay Out of the Sun Day on Monday and National Tom Sawyer Fence-Painting Day on Tuesday — not to mention that July is National Baked Beans Month. We know everyone is anxious to hit the road and celebrate scarecrows/virgins/the sun/fences/beans, but when you do, you can expect to pay more for gas....

Yesterday, four arrests were made in a large drug smuggling scheme. One of those arrests was in Houston, the other three in New York. This ring used tombstones featuring the likeness of the Virgin Mary to smuggle hundreds of pounds of cocaine from Mexico to the U.S. "Like grave robbers who have no respect for the dead, this drug organization used revered tombstones to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into New York City,"...