The nearest I've been is to alight at Lourdes airport for another destination. That was near enough. I have every sympathy for the children in this particular case, knowing that CF is a most terrible disease, but if they are intelligent people they will go home utterly sickened by the whole experience and feeling that they have been heartlessly exploited.

Believers and Sinsull need to consider this, among many other pardoxes: if there is a superhuman force, Godhead or whatever, capable of working miraculous cures, and disposed to do so, why make it conditional on invalids trravelling to Lourdes? Why require these invalids to partake in a monstrous commercial circus? One is bound to wonder if this God character might be taking a cut from the racket.