The Black Madonna

This entry originally appeared in The Black Republican.

Stay away from me - I seem to have caught a vicious strain of leprosy that's eating my brain from inside-out. What causes me to think this? I disagree with a conservative, and agree with a Jesuit.

(A)ccording to Louis Giovino, a spokesman for the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.... South Park made Life of Brian "look like a playground." The animated series, where almost everyone is Catholic, "is very vicious in its satire toward most religions."

Other Catholic observers disagree.

"In the midst of all this gross-out, puerile humor are flashes of insight into the religious condition," says the Rev. James Martin, associate editor and culture critic of America magazine, the national Catholic weekly. The show is subversive, he says, because it uses humor to lead people to a serious consideration of faith and theology.

Anyone got a cure for this?

UPDATE: Forgot the hat tip to Relapsed Catholic.