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So some of you might have seen a trend as the Vatican announces their plans to bring god and anime on their side in real life.

The mascot is called Luce, cute anime girl with religious aspects to it.

But mama mia why did they do this for their event next year? It just seems totally unreal and I feel like I'm living in a simulation.

Never have i thought these zealous buggers would use anime influences in a bajillion years

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[–] dragontamer 82 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The Jubilee is a time of celebration for Catholics.

Traditionally, the Jubilee is held every 25 or 50 years and is a time to celebrate progress, free slaves (back when slaves were legal), forgive sins, etc etc.

In a great celebration, it makes sense to add a bit of pop culture flair. It's also common to focus on children and youth outreach during the Jubilee and an anime character does a lot for that.


As for Luce herself. The Jubilee is also a time of great pilgrimages. It's recommended to get your 'once in a lifetime's visits to Vatican City (or other local holy sites: Santiago de Compostela, Fatima, Guadalupe). As such, Luce is modeled after the image of Pilgrims: Pilgrim staff, raincoat and dirty boots.

Her eyes are of the seashell, a Catholic sign for pilgrims. The seashells guide pilgrims to holy sites (if you've ever been on the Camino, all the next locations are marked with Seashells).

I'm expecting that Luce (thanks to the seashell eyes) will count as an official signpost for the next year of pilgrimages. She's got incredibly well thought out symbology here.


Edit: I should also note that the raincoat has the 2025 Jubilee of Hope flag on it.

In case you didn't get what that green spot on the raincoat was.

[–] ABCDE 9 points 1 month ago

I hadn't even noticed the shells or the flag, thanks for such a detailed post.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

(back when slaves were legal)

You say this like we don't have legalized slaves right now.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Didn't believe you when reading this, apparently it is? Character doesn't look that weird and I'm completely surprised the vatican is modernizing this much

Luce the raincoat-clad anime girl in chibi style, meaning short, cutesy characters with big heads and stubby limbs

[–] dragontamer 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The big reveal is a huge wtf to my brain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m still not convinced in this age of AI image generation.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 9 points 1 month ago

Now see, my instinct is to just say "no......it must be AI. This doesn't make sense. It feels very off."

But then I remembered the last 8-23 years (depending on perspective) have felt very odd. And unrealistic.

Now add in tools that distort reality, and create false digital existences, and I have no more gauge for how to judge whats real. Are you real? Am I real? Am I in a coma? Are we in someone elses coma?

Who's to say?

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[–] spankmonkey 39 points 1 month ago

Her boots are covered in the blood of innocent altar boys.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Propaganda hits mononomi. It's a critical strike!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What an insane thing to read with no context

[–] SLVRDRGN 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's giving Onward Christian toddlers

[–] RangerJosie 6 points 1 month ago

They would if they could.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

🎶MARCHING as to WAR!🎶

[–] CaptPretentious 5 points 1 month ago

And the angel said onto thee "uwu"

[–] kat_angstrom 2 points 1 month ago

These look basic

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[–] Lost_My_Mind 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can confirm. Out of the loop. Am confused.

[–] dragontamer 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's pretty simple really.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Had to zoom in. Looked like it said "I have the boner of god and anime on my side"

Didn't know the pope liked hentai.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The Pope practically invented hentai

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The catholic church has been bleeding members for a while now. This is probably a “fellow kids” attempt to try to get younger people interested again.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice 3 points 1 month ago

Im getting dorra the explorer vibes. But maybe since they see how well shows like Bluey captivate a young audience, it make sense they would want in.

Animated characters allow for the bright flashy lights that keep attention of kids while also allowing you to not use a person who is fallible. You never have to worry about a person doing something nafarious in their personal life and it staining their organization. (Subway, Papa Johns, Sham Wow).

They are a company that basis their decisions on profits after all.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago
[–] Etterra 35 points 1 month ago

It's a marketing strategy. They have a product and they're trying to expand into an un/under-exploited market. What the product is just so happened to be religion, which is increasingly unpopular, archaic, restrictive, controlling, and fictional. They have fairly stringent rules and since the anime mascot doesn't violate them, they'll try it out and see if there's any returns.

It's a pretty low investment, and it's not even close to the first cartoon character made specifically to try and hook kids to a religion. It's only noteworthy because the format is slightly different than past efforts.

[–] baldingpudenda 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Archbishop Fisichella also unveiled the official mascot of the Holy Year 2025: “Luce” (Italian for light), a cartoon pilgrim dressed in a yellow raincoat, mud-stained boots, wearing a missionary cross and holding a pilgrim’s staff. Luce’s glowing eyes feature the shape of scallop shells, a traditional symbol of pilgrimage and hope.

The mascot, he said, was inspired by the church’s desire “to live even within the pop culture so beloved by our youth.”

Source :the dialog

Seems they're trying evangelize the kids and are going to where they are. Gives me Buddy Christ vibes to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Whoah didn't know the buddy christ meme came from that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Ya, Dogma was the first thing in my mind! This is pretty weird.

[–] RangerJosie 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cuz like every major religion they're hemorrhaging believers and thus, money. Time to shake up the recruitment protocols.

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[–] Donebrach 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this is bonkers (hadnt heard of it before) and honestly pretty funny considering that every time “god” in the western sense is used in anime the entity or entities are more often than not villainous monsters.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe they've only seen the dubbed version of Ghost Stories and liked the Christian girl character.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The rule34 will bring in the gooner demographic for them

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Common marketing strategy.

Samsung Sam corporate comic

[–] thesohoriots 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Because we need merchandising uwu

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Christianity of all denominations is losing followers at a church-worrying rate. Yes, you'll always get those who are zealous or make it part of their identity and will never quit, and of course, the quiet - if you'll pardon the pun - masses who are ever faithful, but the churches don't fill up quite how they used to.

By getting the kids hooked on an ideology through a relatable, maybe even exciting, child-like character, they're hoping to (eventually) get people back into churches and get business booming again.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He didn't announce them. They came to us from God. They are here to help us attain a heavenly life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"Yo big G, can you help us? Our planet is dying!" "Best I can do is official Catholic anime girl." "Understandable have a nice day."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] DragonsInARoom 6 points 1 month ago

AI already got her, the times we live in are, well, the times

[–] WhyFlip 5 points 1 month ago

To fetch dweeb lords.

[–] njm1314 4 points 1 month ago

Release the buddy Christ you papist cowards

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The mascot was specifically made to represent the Holy See at a Japanese expo. It's essentially the Vatican's government. Merchandise like this has always been a thing, it's just this is an official endorsement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The Pope learn that he were no match for the power of fumo so he brought about a fumo of his own creation to gain the power of fumo for the great fumo war

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Pope released an anime mascot

[–] SLVRDRGN 8 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

So that when they find his hard drives, he can say the person is actually 3,032 years old.

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