What about it is inaccurate or not true?
Since you are implying that that's the case, could you offer more than that to show us where it's wrong?
My point was that which you should already know: AP excels at inaccurate, slanted reporting. Taking their articles at face value, regardless of subject matter, is dangerous for your sanity. My comment was also meant to be somewhat humorous, at least, tongue-in-cheek. Just as a by-the-way, I will add two things.
The first is that you’ve put yourself in the same bowl as both NPR and the Huffington Post, both of whom feature this. I’d have thought that wasn’t your style, and while I realize your bias, I thought better of you, respectfully.
The second is the same story, portrayed more accurately. Link first: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/john-paul-iis-blood-to-serve-as-relic-in-polish-church/
Story:
Krakow, Poland, Jan 19, 2011 / 01:04 am (CNA).- A vial of blood drawn from Pope John Paul II will be installed as a relic in a Polish church soon after his beatification.
Piotr Sionko, the spokesman for the John Paul II Center, said the vial will be encased in crystal and built into the altar of a church in the city of Krakow, the Associated Press reports. The church, which is still under construction, will open sometime after the May 1 beatification.
The blood was drawn for medical tests shortly before the pontiff’s death on April 2, 2005. It is now in the possession of Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the Archbishop of Krakow and former secretary of John Paul II.
Sionko said the cardinal proposed the idea of using the blood as a relic. “He is of the opinion that this is the most precious relic of John Paul II and should be the focal point of the church.”
The church, in Krakow’s Lagiewniki district, is part of a center devoted to cultivating the memory and the teaching of the late Pope, a former Archbishop of Krakow.
As part of Catholic tradition, the veneration of relics is a practice that recognizes the God-given sanctity of a saint or blessed and anticipates his or her bodily resurrection.
John Paul II’s blood would not be the first relic of its kind. The blood of St. Januarius is kept in the cathedral of Naples and liquefies every year on his feast day.