'LUCE': A CARTOON FOR THE CARTOON N O MASS ERA

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Archbishop Fisichella unveils 'Luce'

 

The Bergoglian Vatican has hired an artist famous for designing art for gay pride events and sex toys to produce a 'mascot' for the 2025 Holy Year Jubilee. She's called 'Luce' - an Italian name meaning 'light' which resonates oddly with Satan's name, Lucifer ('bearer of light'). Luce looks suspiciously like Greta Thunberg, the Vatican's climate change darling. And she carries a witch's stang.

Greta Thunberg

Italian artist Simone Legno's company Tokidoki produced the anime-inspired Luce in partnership with Lovehoney, a brand creating adult sex toys featuring Tokidoki characters. Legno's portfolio includes extensive collaborations and promotion for PRIDE and promoting transgenderism. His Instagram page features half-naked women throughout his feed. So why was this man hired when thousands of Catholic artists could have created a similar mascot?

Anime is a huge market: with Luce merch in its various guises the Vatican will be creaming it. But "You cannot serve God and mammon" (Mt 6,24). It's a fair bet that Catholic traditionalists will despise Luce and the minds that manufactured her, and that she will become the poster girl for the Bergoglian church. A cartoon character personifying a cartoon Mass - the Novus Ordo.

Church art before Vatican II          After Vatican II, cartoons

 

The Vatican has unveiled an official animated mascot for the upcoming Jubilee Year 2025 in an apparent attempt to appeal to more young people.

 

Revealed at a press conference Monday, the mascot is a female pilgrim named Luce (light) who has blue hair and wears a yellow raincoat, muddy boots, carries a staff, and, most notably, a rainbow-colored rosary around her neck. The character was created by Italian artist Simone Legno, whose company Tokidoki has promoted LGBT “Pride” month with materials similar in style to the newly released Vatican mascot. 

 

In addition to Luce, there are three other mascots – Fe, Xin, and Sky – who don the other three colors on the Jubilee’s logo: red, green, and blue. Together, they make up “Luce and friends.”  

 

A Jubilee Year is a special year of pilgrimage and grace in which the Catholic faithful have unique opportunities to gain a plenary indulgence. The 2025 Jubilee Year will occur from December 24, 2024, through January 6, 2026, with the theme of “Spes non Confundit,” or “hope does not disappoint.” 

 

The Vatican press release explained that Luce’s yellow raincoat and muddy boots symbolize her long journey through storms as a pilgrim, and the bright seashells in Luce’s eyes symbolize the Light of God.  

 

Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization and organizer of the Jubilee, said during Monday’s press conference that Luce’s shining eyes are a “symbol of hope in the heart.” 

 

The archbishop noted that the dicastery will showcase “Luce and Friends” at this year’s Lucca Comics and Games convention for video games, comic books, and fantasy in Italy and again next year at the Holy See’s pavilion at the World Expo in Osaka, Japan. 

 

Fisichella also emphasized that the mascot was created to draw more young people into the Church through “pop culture.” He hoped that having exhibits at these expos “will allow us to speak to younger generations about the theme of hope, which is more central than ever in the evangelical message,” while adding that the mascot underscores the Church’s will “to live even within the pop culture so beloved by our youth.” 

 

Simone Legno, the Italian artist behind “Luce and Friends” and Tokidoki co-founder, echoed Fisichella’s sentiments about the Jubilee year as a “unique opportunity” for the Church to engage with young people.  

 

Lovehoney products

“The Jubilee is undoubtedly a unique opportunity for encounter and dialogue for millions of people, including many young people. I hope that the pilgrim Luce can represent the sentiments that resonate in the hearts of the younger generations,” Legno said.  

 

The artist also wrote about being raised Catholic in the press release. “I grew up in Rome in a Catholic family, where I learned the principles of a faith grounded in generosity and respect for others,” Legno said.  

 

Despite growing up Catholic, Legno’s company, Tokidoki, has previously endorsed “LGBT pride,” selling “pride”-themed merchandise such as digital wallpapers, “art,” and hats on its website. 

 

This is not the first time Pope Francis’s Vatican has appeared to promote pro-LGBT artwork. In 2022, the Synod on Synodality’s social media accounts posted images that showed an individual wearing a t-shirt with the word “pride” written in rainbow letters standing next to a woman dressed as a priest.

 

Another image seemed to show the phrase “Catholic Identity” juxtaposed with “LGBTQ+ Identity.” Cardinal Mario Grech defended the artwork, saying it was simply part of being a “listening church.” https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-unveils-jubilee-year-mascot-luce-created-by-pro-lgbt-artist/

St Michael gives Luce her come-uppance

 

St Michael the Archangel and All Saints, pray for the Church