The Vatican has announced a new initiative to engage a younger generation of followers in 2025 by introducing the Catholic Church's mascot, an anime character named Luce. Enlisting the help of ...

Luce, the anime-inspired official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee, whose name means “light” in Italian, has ...

The Catholic Church is preparing to celebrate what it refers to as a "Jubilee" year in 2025. And as a part of its preparations, the Vatican has rolled out a brand new anime-inspired mascot ...

ALBAWABA - The Vatican Catholic Church recently made headlines and went viral across social media after unveiling its very first coat-wearing anime mascot, Luce! 'Luce' is Italian for 'Light' in ...

The mascot has gone viral online since its unveiling ... Simon Chair in Catholic Studies, wrote in December. The Catholic Church is not using Luce just for the Holy Year, Whitehead said, but ...

As it turns out, anime is also in the Catholic Church as The Vatican just learned on the medium to create a new mascot. Yes, you read that right. The Vatican has its own anime alter ego.

indeed the use of a mascot at all, infantilizes religion — not to mention, it’s hardly the art we should expect from the Church that inspired Michelangelo and Rafael. Ignoring all that ...

universal Church. It seemed kind of disconnected to me.” On Oct. 28, he wrote on X: “Catholicism doesn’t need a ‘mascot,’ we have a Cross.” It was the overwhelming audience reaction to ...

Designed by Simone Legno, the mascot with big blue eyes and blue hair ... much physical hardship as well as devotion. In the church of Santa Prassede, Rome, Giovanni de Montpoli, who describes ...