OCTOBER 20, 2010
The Catholic Church thinks Homer Simpson is a Catholic. I have never watched the TV show (really), but below is what the AOL weird news contributing writer wrote.
Oct. 19) -- The thick-headed couch potato star of the popular TV cartoon "The Simpsons" might not be the poster boy for religion. But in its latest venture into pop culture, the Vatican's official newspaper has declared that Homer Simpson is a Catholic.
In an article Sunday headlined "Homer and Bart Are Catholics," the Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano cited a Jesuit priest's media study calling "The Simpsons" one of "the few TV programs for kids in which Christian faith, religion and questions about God are recurrent themes."
The study points to a 2005 episode in which Bart enrolls in a Catholic school and meets a hip priest. Attracted perhaps more by free pancake dinners than eternal salvation, Homer also joins the church and converts to Catholicism.
In an article Sunday headlined "Homer and Bart Are Catholics," the Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano cited a Jesuit priest's media study calling "The Simpsons" one of "the few TV programs for kids in which Christian faith, religion and questions about God are recurrent themes."
The study points to a 2005 episode in which Bart enrolls in a Catholic school and meets a hip priest. Attracted perhaps more by free pancake dinners than eternal salvation, Homer also joins the church and converts to Catholicism.
The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano says parents should encourage their children to watch "The Simpsons."
The great ones go in threes. First June Cleaver died. Now Mr. Cunningham a/k/a Mr. C, died. Tom Bosley from Happy Days died at the age of 83. He was from Chicago and worked at the Woodstock Opera House in Woodstock, IL with another young actor named Paul Newman.
If I was Andy Griffith or Dick Van Dyke, I would be worried. What other TV mother or father is still alive?
The Pentagon was closed because it was fired upon. Why didn’t we fire back?
Did you read about the guy from India who built a 27 story home for his family which consists of him, his wife and their three kids? The home requires 600 live-in domestic helpers. The cost is estimated at one billion dollars. Mukesh Ambani is India's richest man and the owner. It has a six floor parking garage attached, built for 168 cars. It has several ‘safe rooms’ He needed the extra room because his mother moved in with him. He is considered the 22nd richest man in the world who bought his wife a 60 million dollar jet for her 44th birthday. The home is in Mumbai, overlooking the Arabian Sea and some of the world’s poorest slums. He and his family have lived in the home for a few months after moving out of their 14 story starter home.
On this date in history:
BIRTHS;
1819 Mirza Ali Mohammad [The B b], forerunner of Bah 'u'll h
1923 Herschel Bernardi NYC, actor (Peter Gunn, Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, The Front)
1953 Keith Hernandez SF Calif, NY Met 1st baseman (9 golden gloves)
On same day
1953 Tom Petty Gainesville Fla, singer (Heartbreakers-Refugee)
1953 Tom Petty Gainesville Fla, singer (Heartbreakers-Refugee)
Mark Catalanello, year unknown, famous golfer and internationally known hunter
DEATHS;
1964 Herbert Hoover 31st president of U.S. dies in NY at 90
1972 Harlow Shapley discoverer of the Sun's position in the galaxy dies
IMPORTANT EVENTS;
1600 Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)
1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
1944 US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines
1988 Reggie Rogers, Det. Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated
1990 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obscenity charges in Florida
1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (US-Iraq)
1990 Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in the 87th World Series
1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (US-Iraq)
1990 Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in the 87th World Series
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
I read something (years ago) that said The Simpsons has some sort of reference to church/God/Jesus/religion in every single episode. Be it the family goes to church, the pastor (Rev. Lovejoy) is in the episode, some sort of Jesus/God/Devil imagery or someone saying a prayer, etc. I do not know if that is still the case but after I read that I have noticed it in almost every episode I have watched.
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