Petition to Pope: Dump ‘Darth Vader’ Manger churchmilitant.com

Italian Catholics are petitioning Pope Francis to “bring back the traditional statues of Jesus, Mary and Joseph” after a universal tsunami of scorn and mockery swamped the Vatican’s modernist manger in St. Peter’s Square.

Social media commentators and even mainstream media — the latter normally sympathetic to Pope Francis — ridiculed the “monumental monstrosity of a manger,” comparing the ceramic crib characters to Darth Vader from Star Wars and labeling it “a meth addict’s garage sale.”…

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