Memo to Pope: Pregnant Nuns Eating Ice Cream Are Not Your Worst Problem

[Better Believe It]

Memo to Pope: Pregnant Nuns Eating Ice Cream Are Not Your Worst Problem
by Abby Zimet
September 15, 2010


On the eve of the Pope's visit to Britain, an industry watchdog group has banned an Antonio Federici ad featuring a pregnant nun eating ice cream that reads, ''Immaculately Conceived'' and ''Ice Cream You Can Believe In." The company says it intends to defy the ban in the name of free expression and its right to use "gentle humor" to question "the attitudes of the church to social issues." The watchdog saw the ad as "a distortion and mockery of the beliefs of Roman Catholics." No word yet on their stand on priests abusing many small children in the name of those beliefs.

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2010/09/15-2




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Pregnant nun advert 'offensive to Catholics'
An advert for a brand of ice cream showing a heavily-pregnant nun has been banned for ''making a mockery'' of the beliefs of Roman Catholics, a watchdog said today.
September 15, 2010

The ad for the Antonio Federici brand, which appeared in The Lady and Grazia magazines earlier this year, showed the woman standing in a church holding a tub of ice cream and a spoon with text stating ''Immaculately conceived'' and ''Ice cream is our religion".

Ten readers complained that the ad was offensive to Christians, particularly to those who practised Catholicism.

Defending the ad, Antonio Federici said the idea of ''conception'' represented the development of their ice cream, and their use of religious imagery stemmed from their strong feelings towards their product.

The company said it also wished to ''comment on and question, using satire and gentle humour, the relevance and hypocrisy of religionand the attitudes of the church to social issues''

Read the full article at:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/8001638/Pregnant-nun-advert-offensive-to-Catholics.html

I don't see the text "Ice cream is our religion" in the ad. I do see the text "Ice cream you can believe in".

[Better Believe It]

1. Visit the ice cream website! It's a riot! I started singing along with their song!

http://www.antoniofederici.com/

[joshcryer]

4. Haha, that's great.

[PeaceNikki]

6. lol. Their other ad campaigns in the gallery are full of win.

:D

[Meldread]

9. Awesome Website! I WANT SOME ICECREAM!

I laughed so hard, and damn it... advertisement doesn't normally work on me, but in this case I so desperately want to try it. LOL.

I love the catholic themed advertisement, it's hilarious.

[Better Believe It]

10. All together now. We all scream for ice cream!

[asdjrocky]

2. .

[joshcryer]

3. There's a joke about milk here I think but I'm not witty enough to make it.

[TexasObserver]

5. Also, will everyone please not mention Nazis or pedophiles?

It would be rude to remind His Royal Popeness of such things. After all, he can trace his power all the way back to Constantine.

Remember the carpenter's son who said "take the truck load of lumber out of your own eye, before you take the speck out of your brother's eye"? That would be good advice for the First Friar.

[laconicsax]

7. Got it--child rape ok, pregnant nun eating ice cream bad.

I'm glad the anger over this advert cleared that up.

[Better Believe It]

8. 10, count them, 10 readers complained. Now if that isn't a huge protest I don't know what is!

:)