Catholics fight back against episode of ‘South Park’

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It hasn’t been a great month for the Virgin Mary. First, a
Catholic magazine inadvertently ran an ad showing Mary wrapped in a condom. Then
Comedy Central aired an episode of South Park titled “Bloody Mary,” in which a
statue of the Virgin Mary is believed to be bleeding out of its rear end but is eventually
determined to be menstruating and not worthy of special attention. (The Pope shows
up in the episode and clarifies the situation by saying, “A chick bleeding out
her vagina is no miracle.






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