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Article on the sexing-up of the priesthood

Father Meyer said the poster, on which he is featured as the "Matrix"-style priest, had its origins in a skit that he saw during his first year at the North American College, the U.S. seminary in Rome. The skit, put on by a group of older seminarians, was based on the film. In it, a group of priests fought Satan in a series of mock martial-arts confrontations.

So the church is the resistance, OK. And Satan is Agent Smith, perhaps? And Jesus is Neo... and Trinity is Mary (Magdalene?) and the Merovingian is.. and .. Does the church have some sort of censor that stops an already-convoluted mythology from being spun farther into incoherence? Or perhaps they understand that this will sell well, and only works by appropriating a harmless image from popular culture, without all the philosophical baggage.

Well, while we're buying - Get your John Paul II rookie card!