'The Simpsons' and the Vatican press [John Allen]

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Oddball combinations never fail to amuse. On their own, neither poodles nor break dancing constitute a novelty, but find a break-dancing poodle and YouTube awaits. In the same spirit, a recent paean to “The Simpsons” in L’Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, sparked chuckles around the world.

After all, Homer Simpson is the postmodern everyman who once mused, “What’s that religion with all the well-meaning rules that don’t work out in real life? … You know, Christianity.” For the Vatican’s in-house organ to pay tribute on the show’s 20th anniversary is, therefore, noteworthy.
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The shows mocks nearly everybody and every group it can think of. You need a little of that once in a while and the price of admission is including your OWN group in the mockees.

The show gets plenty wrong, but if I were a Curia guy I might have to get me a Homer face bumper sticker with the quote “Once you go Vatican you never go back!”
 
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