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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: The Internet has gone crazy over the Vatican's unveiling of

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Speaker 2: a anime anime styled mascot. There's a picture of the Pope.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't even remember which pope we're up to his

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Speaker 2: picture and what's his name.

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Speaker 1: Is he?

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Speaker 2: Actually it was Archbishop Reno Finchella who announced the mascot.

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Speaker 2: I'm look at the rock, so I'm not even looking

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Speaker 2: at a picture of the Pope. I'm so confused as

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Speaker 2: to who the pope is. But his here he is

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Speaker 2: with this anime like a Japanese style plush toy.

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Speaker 1: Was to get the kids into the religion. I guess, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because worked well in the past. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So this the Vatican's cartoon mascot. So that archbishop is

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Speaker 2: posing there with a a plush toy. But there's cartoons,

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Speaker 2: cartoon books, all that kind of stuff. Anime is associated

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Speaker 2: kind of with Japanese stuff. But what they've done here,

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Speaker 2: so this is ahead of the twenty twenty five Jubilee.

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Speaker 2: The Vatican has launched a cartoon mascot with a cheerful

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Speaker 2: face of the Catholic Church's upcoming Holy Year. This is

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Speaker 2: going to be their cheerful face it's called lu che

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Speaker 2: l u ce, which means light, and it's intended to

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Speaker 2: engage the younger audience, as you say, and to guide

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Speaker 2: visitors through the Holy Year. The mascot is part of

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Speaker 2: the Vatican's goal to engage with the pop culture so

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Speaker 2: beloved by our young people. So they're going to debuolucha

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Speaker 2: lucha with comics and games, et cetera, at Italy's celebrated

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Speaker 2: convention where for all things comics and video games, the

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Speaker 2: Vaticans die Caastre for evangelization. We're going to host a

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Speaker 2: space there, so if you're going to Comic Con, this

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Speaker 2: might be a surprise edition. Pope Francis, you write his

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Speaker 2: own new one.

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Speaker 1: They've got. You've got Jesus in there, and he's it's

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Speaker 1: like McDonald's like roun on McDonald. He's the main guy.

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Speaker 1: You go, Jesus the main guy. And then you've got

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Speaker 1: the all an Celery An Celery characters, you know, Grimace,

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Speaker 1: mamic Cheese, Big Mac Birdie. Have I missed anyone he

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Speaker 1: had saying that Jesus is Ronald McDonald. No, I'm not saying,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying any big corporation like Hamburger, he would

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Speaker 1: be like Judas, so it was a criminal.

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Speaker 2: Well this is the one for kids, which that's what

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Speaker 2: it is all about, marketing, And he used to get

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Speaker 2: you an unhappy meal. Well this this little girl, her name,

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Speaker 2: I said, is lute Che, and she wears like a

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Speaker 2: little rain coach. He's got mud on her shoes because

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Speaker 2: she's an express. The old school cross around her neck

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Speaker 2: and the.

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Speaker 1: Old og where you see Jesus were pictures of Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Well what I saw one the other day.

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Speaker 1: With a cross around his name?

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Speaker 2: Well the old I saw an old painting of Jesus

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Speaker 2: and the disciples, and the colored He doesn't look Middle

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Speaker 2: Eastern in any way. Funnily enough, long blowing, blowing, long

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Speaker 2: flowing blonde hair, which is not how he would have looked.

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Speaker 2: But with a cross around his neck, you think, what

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Speaker 2: a spoiler alert. He had no idea the cross was.

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Speaker 2: The image isn't a great one for him.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Judas for giving me this. That's a nice

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Speaker 1: What does it mean? What are you doing over Easter?

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Speaker 1: Is it symbol you head off down the coast for

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Speaker 1: a few days. Hum