someone wearing a collared shirt, no tie and a jacket to me. Didn't know Mary was into "smart casual"... Thought she was more "robes and veils".

Ooo look! A publicity stunt.

I presume she wouldn't look like a frumpy faceless collection of squiggles. Just throwing the idea out there.

How do we know it's real? It could just be a celebrity look a-like ;-)

I'm afraid it looks more like Phillipe Geluck's Le Chat

http://www.geluck.com/

=;-)

Looks more like Father Abraham of the Smurfs to me!

Miss Marple to me

I'm gonna spend the rest of the day trying to make Jesus toast......

....who's had his helmet mashed down over his head, all the way down to his neck

Clearly, it's Tux.

stoned?!

Now, where did I leave my coat?

PS Pebble+felt tips=NZ$50K?

Jeez! (so to speak)

There's cash to be made from religious nuts!

Although, it looks like SANTA CLAUS to me: button nose, big moustache, white pointy beard, but with a shirt collar and fat necktie.

I suppose you could claim that anything is the Virgin Mary and someone, somehwere would believe you! For Cash !

http://pbfcomics.com/archive/0PBF61009BC-Weeaboo.jpg to me.

Mysterio, in a suit. On his way to a job interview.

Paris Hilton angle?

Pure and simple.

Paddington Bear.

This is the sort of crap they buy isn't it?

....someone's dressed their knob in a shirt and taken a photo.

Presumably when the Church pointed out that we don't know what the Virgin Mary looks like (I'm betting sort of dried up and decomposed meself) the word "dickhead" wasn't on their minds.......

...she's read 'Lucky You', by Carl Hiaasens.

Church woman - "The church's approach [to purported Virgin Mary simulacra] is always very cautious because no one has ever seen Mary, so how would they know what she looks like?"

Don't stop them put statues up of her all over the place does it? Monkeys.

My Arse.

That's Father Christmas come early (if you'll pardon the expression). Mind you, he only does come once a year, and that's down a chimney. Poor bastard.

It's a clit!

Well, it certainly resembles the top end of one of those illustrations of the female external genitalia from old 70s sex-ed manuals. Wonder what's on the other side?

What ever happened to simple " common sense" in trying to touch the Supernatural >>> why not get a pebble of your choice and paint it with a lady-like picture ( indelible of course} then flog it on ebay for big bucks or part exchange for a fibre optic Xmas tree ( only 8 weeks-ish to go ) a phalic alternative maybe ?

It's just a fricking ROCK! Big deal.

NZ's Catholic church. Spokeswoman Lindsay Freer said: "The church's approach [to purported Virgin Mary simulacra] is always very cautious because no one has ever seen Mary, so how would they know what she looks like?"

No one has ever seen Mary, huh? So, the Catholic church will be shutting down the grotto at Lourdes any day now, yes? Not to mention Fatima and all the other places. In fact, wikipedia lists 12 people who have "church approved Marian visions".

So does Lindsay Freer just not know what she's talking about, or is the Catholic church finally admitted what the rest of us have known all along, that all these visions of Mary/Jesus/Brian are just a load of old cobblers?

"The church's approach [to purported Virgin Mary simulacra] is always very cautious because no one has ever seen Mary, so how would they know what she looks like?"

I dated Virgin Mary for a while. This looks nothing like her. What? Oh THAT Virgin Mary. Sorry.

...or does she look like she's flicking the bird?

just get yourselves one of these!

http://www.thisnext.com/item/C9BAF23A/Holy-Toast-Maker

"no one has ever seen Mary, so how would they know what she looks like?"....if NOONE has ever seen her,therefore she never existed....proving this whole religion thing is a barrell of SHITE