[Jem Smith]

The Vatican now has an anime mascot called 'Luce', created with the aim of interesting young people in the Roman Catholic Church.

https://comicbook.com/anime/news/anime-character-the-vatican-catholic-japan/

This is such strange marketing move, and the name seems unfortunate (it means 'light', as 'Lucifer' means 'light bringer, so the connotations seem not great).

What do you think?

[Netherrealmer]

and they also have a Millenial Saint a blogger who is said to cure diseases if you visit his blog.

[mrki444]

For older generations will be weird since it don't have wings as angles. Also some will say what saint character she represent? It could be Mary, Jesus mom.

[Jem Smith]

For older generations will be weird since it don't have wings as angles. Also some will say what saint character she represent? It could be Mary, Jesus mom.

She doesn't represent a saint or an angel. She's a Catholic pilgrim. Her name is Luce. I linked to the article about her.

[Netherrealmer]

Its basically Vatican's attempt to be cool

[Tendz]

Anime has a global following, and adopting this method could help modernise its image.

[eldavis]

It's obvious he is trying to attract a more younger audience, anyway if it works, then that's good work to him.