Staying Power

The Lourdes Spectator

Staying Power

By Michael Johnson

Cynics denounce it as a religious theme park. An Oxford don calls it a scene of mass delusion. But Lourdes -- the 19th-century shrine in southern France -- still pulls in the faithful at a steady rate of about 6 million people a year, thousands of them in wheelchairs.

The visitors seem unperturbed by jibes from outsiders.

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