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Here’s a stocking stuffer for you…

posted by jmcgee | 5:08pm Wednesday November 18, 2009

If this doesn’t give you pause, nothing will: a video game supposedly based on the mass. Judging from this article, some skeptics think it’s a joke. (Well, whether intended or not, it is a scream…)

Personally, I have my doubts, but it’s just crazy enough to almost maybe possibly potentially be legit.  (Though my source for this, James Martin, has his doubts, too.) 
Elizabeth Scalia (a.k.a.The Anchoress) is convinced it’s a satire of popular Catholic kitsch (like Pope Culture, profiled last year on Beliefnet).     
Is it catechesis or camp?  You decide, below: 
   


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Gaudete! And let's break out a carol or two...
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