The Catholic Church has unveiled a new cartoon mascot known as “Luce,” and the raincoat-clad anime girl has already made a splash online. Luce has been embraced and denounced by the extremely ...

the Catholic Church recently revealed a new mascot character for the upcoming Jubilee 2025 event at Vatican City and Expo 2025 at Osaka. Archbishop Rino Fisichella unveiled “Luce” (“light ...

Luce was designed by Simone Legno ... verification and being “toothless,” according to a story from the New York Times. Many victims of clergy abuse were children, so introducing a mascot ...

On the other, some Catholics are infuriated by Luce and the Vatican’s try-hard attitude toward recruiting new followers. The biggest dissenters seem to be RadTrads (internet slang for hyper ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Vatican revealed its new mascot for Holy Year 2025, Luce, inspired by pop culture, specifically anime. The Pro-prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Evangelization ...

The Vatican has unveiled a new mascot for the Catholic Church in the hope of engaging young people - a cartoon character named Luce. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the Vatican's chief organiser for ...

The Vatican introduced an anime-style mascot named Luce to represent Catholic pilgrims in the 2025 Jubilee year on Monday, Oct. 28 — and within a week, the character has already become a viral ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Vatican has unveiled its first-ever mascot “Luce,” the cheerful and hopeful face of the Roman Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year in 2025. The launch of the anime ...

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Meet ‘Luce’ – the Vatican’s official mascot for ...

The mascot, named Luce — which means “light” in Italian ... of the Dicastery for Evangelization’s section for the new evangelization, said he hopes taking part in the convention ...

The concept of Luce—whose name derives from the Latin word "Lucerna," meaning "light"—was introduced at a special launch event for the Jubilee led by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the chief ...