He is an idle, pea-brained glutton with a permanent craving for doughnuts and Duff beer, but Homer Simpson has been declared a true Catholic by the Vatican’s official newspaper.
The newspaper acknowledged that Homer snores through the sermons of the Reverend Lovejoy and inflicts “never-ending humiliation” on his evangelical neighbour, Ned Flanders. But in an article headlined “Homer and Bart are Catholics”, the newspaper said: “The Simpsons are among the few TV programmes for children in which Christian faith, religion, and questions about God are recurrent themes…”
It quoted an analysis by a Jesuit priest, Father Francesco Occhetta, of a 2005 episode of The Simpsons, The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star, which revolved around Catholicism and was aired a few weeks after the death of Pope John Paul II…The episode touches on issues such as religious conflict, interfaith dialogue, homosexuality and stem cell research.
“Few people know it, and he does everything he can to hide it, but it is true: Homer J Simpson is a Catholic,” insists L’Osservatore Romano.
Har!
What do you think? Does Homer fit into Catholicism?
“Reverend” Lovejoy – therefore a heretic and therefore will burn in hell unless he is purified by the sacred fires of the Inquisition.
First step on the road to Saint Homer?
Does anyone care what the Vatcan thinks – about anything ? Don’t forget they only gave up “geo-centrcism” in what 1994 – 400 years after Galileo !
I must have missed the episode where he molests altar boys.
But, he docent smoke does he???
“Relax! Those pious morons are too busy talking to their phoney-baloney God!” — Homer Simpson
The Simpsons is the greatest Christian show on TV.
I’m neither kidding, nor being ironic.
Obviously, the funny hat in Rome has not seen the show much. Homer attends a church that has a married Reverend, not a child molesting “father”. As per wikipedia, Homer attends the “First Church of Springfield — the Protestant church in Springfield.”
Case closed.
Homer Simpson is definitely not Catholic. I would also say he not a Jew, Muslim or even a homosexual. I don’t even think he’s a Christian. In fact the man isn’t even an atheist. Do you know why?
Because he’s a gosh-darned CARTOON character, not a human being with thoughts and ideas. He is there to entertain us, and make us feel smarter because he acts so dumb. So the sooner we stop anthropomorphizing a DRAWING on a piece of paper, the more resources we have in order to grasp our OWN reality.
#9 monkeyman – What are you so animated about?
#9….you used both proper and gender-specific nouns to describe a cartoon drawing. Careful with those accusations of anthropomorphizing.
I think there’s a kind of sweetness about the good folks of cartoon Springfield that lends itself to catechesis. Look at the rather complicated character of Nelson – bully, deprived lower-socioeconomic class child, sometimes surprising us with moments of gentleness and compassion, and best of all – the only one who appreciates Lisa.
As far as Homer’s character being written as a Catholic – no, obviously not.
How are the Simpsons and Catholic religion alike?
They both follow fictitious scripts, and feature an animated buffoon.
And Marge is a Homersexual.
Come on folks, it’s all make-believe. What do you want?
@dcphill – yes we know it’s all ‘make believe’, so what gives them the right to attack the Simpsons ?
I thought he was an Episcopalian, or a Lutheran, or a Presbyterian. Catholic, or baptist definitely not.
I thought the good Father’s case was made on the determination that Homer is a pea brain. Thats close enough to any Catholic or other religious type==all more the same than different.
#17 – Rev Lovejoy is from “The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism”
#19 Can you say that three times really fast?