I was browsing CNN and came upon this article, titled “Commercial featuring nuns taking potato chips for communion sparks outrage in Italy.” I’m not going to describe the commercial, but as you can tell from the title of the article, it is clearly blasphemous.
What also bothered me was an untrue sentence in the article: “Catholics believe the communion wafer represents the body and blood of Christ.” We don’t believe the “Communion wafer” (i.e., host) represents or symbolizes the body of Christ. We believe that it IS Christ because he said so and because Christ never lies. He said, “This is my body.” He didn’t say, “This is a symbol of my body” or “This represents my body.”
So not only am I offended by the commercial, I’m also offended by the ignorance of the reporter. Or maybe the “reporter” was AI, which gives me even more reason to dislike AI than I already do. If Amica chips were a thing in the United States, I wouldn’t eat them anymore, or at least I wouldn’t eat them unless their marketing gurus recanted and apologized.
Relatedly, CNN published another article titled “Why is pop culture so obsessed with nuns?” I think this topic became relevant because Rihanna recently dressed like a nun in a photoshoot for some magazine (didn’t Lady Gaga already do that?), and there’s a new horror movie out called Immaculate that features nuns (and I would 100% recommend NOT seeing this movie, after reading the Wikipedia synopsis), like that trope hasn’t been done to death already.
So the answer to the question posed in the article title was something along the lines of “because it’s fun to juxtapose the pure image of a nun with topics such as blood, gore, and sex.” Or maybe pop culture is obsessed with nuns because Hollywood is run by the minions of Satan (although I’m sort of joking when I say that). I knew there was a reason I don’t watch movies!