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. . . the people getting their panties in a knot miss the whole point of the episode. It's not making fun of Catholics, it's making fun of people who worship "miraculous" idols. There have been plenty of stories recently about people worshipping images of Mary, in grilled cheese, or weeping statues, and people flock to them.

Eventually, Pope Benedict XVI is called in to investigate, whereupon he determines that the statue is actually menstruating and thus is nothing special.
"A chick bleeding out her vagina is no miracle," the pope declares in the episode. "Chicks bleed out their vaginas all the time."

Appears to be rather rude and crude to me.

If I were a devout Christian, I'd be ticked off too. IMHO, they have a real good reason for being appalled and disgusted.

Mocking their knotted panties is rather lame.

Change the channel if you don't like what you see, and vote with your eyes.

You don't need to see it to condemn it. Standing up for your beliefs is better than flipping channels and remaining silent. The tension between the two extremes will eventually produce the right course.

I laughed out loud at that part. And I'm a Catholic who was rooting for Ratzinger the entire election period.

Seriously, a message to my fellow Catholics: stop freaking out about this and worry about something that matters, like the Da Vinci Code.