Homer Simpson is Catholic

It never ceases to amaze me who Christians will claim next, yet it seems their most recent victim is our favourite TV dad...Homer J Simpson.






The official Vatican newspaper has declared that beer-swilling, doughnut-loving Homer Simpson and son Bart are Catholics — and what’s more, it says that parents should not be afraid to let their children watch “the adventures of the little guys in yellow”.

“Few people know it, and he does everything to hide it. But it’s true: Homer J. Simpson is Catholic”, the Osservatore Romano newspaper said in an article on Sunday headlined “Homer and Bart are Catholics”.

The newspaper cited a study by a Jesuit priest of a 2005 episode of the show called “The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star”.That study came to the conclusion The Simpsons is “among the few TV programs for kids in which Christian faith, religion and questions about God are recurrent themes”.

Homer seems confused

 
The middle class US family prays before meals, and “in its own way, believes in the beyond,” the newspaper quoted the Jesuit study as saying.It’s the second time the animated US TV series, which is broadcast in 90 countries, has been praised by the Vatican.

In December 2009, the Osservatore Romano described the show as “tender and irreverent, scandalous and ironic, boisterous and profound, philosophical and sometimes even theological, nutty synthesis of pop culture and of the lukewarm and nihilistic American middle class”.

The Simpsons, which introduced the catch-phrase “D’oh”, is the longest-running prime-time TV series in the United States and is now in its 22nd season.

I've been watching the Simpson's for years now, to be precise since 1993 and nothing has ever said Catholic in the Simpson's but what do i know I'm not Catholic so maybe I missed the Hail Mary's and our Fathers somewhere along the line.

BCM

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