I admit (albeit slightly sheepishly) that I rolled my eyes when the Catholic League got upset about an episode of South Park. What got them outraged was awful and gross and crass and just wrong, as the kids say. But it’s SOUTH PARK–that’s what they do! Nothing, even the pope and the Virgin Mary (or Christ! NO ONE IS SAFE) is off limits for South Park. I was actually surprised they didn’t have a caricature of Bill Donahue sending out press releases in the episode. The Catholic League got Comedy Central to vow to never run the episode again–I assume they figured they didn’t need the headache. But it was shown, people laughed, and it will be on DVD before long for all hardcore South Park fans.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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