Churchgoers pray for relief after parish dinner goes disastrously awry

This is the kind of publicity that a small Kansas parish really doesn’t want. The Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Arkansas City, Kansas, hosted a turkey dinner on November 8 for 1,800 people. Two days ago, Barfblog revealed that 159 guests who ate the dinner had reported becoming sick, and one had been hospitalized.

The guests who fell ill reported vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and cramping. If history is a good judge, it may be the last church supper served at Sacred Heart.