Church V. BBC
The BBC has aggravated (some) religious sensibilities again, and sparked a minor Church of England scuffle, with its Christmas day airing of an episode of the popular sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, which featured a chocolate baby Jesus and the drunken antics of the eponymous vicar as she prepared for midnight mass. While C of […]
The BBC has aggravated (some) religious sensibilities again, and sparked a minor Church of England scuffle, with its Christmas day airing of an episode of the popular sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, which featured a chocolate baby Jesus and the drunken antics of the eponymous vicar as she prepared for midnight mass. While C of E Bishop of Norwich, the Right Rev Graham James, condemned the episode as more offensive than Jerry Springer: The Opera and called for the BBC’s programming to better reflect Britain’s Christian majority, the Manchester diocese of the Church is putting the star of Vicar, Dawn French, to use: placing her on the cover of next month’s diocesan magazine and alongside The Simpsons’ Rev. Lovejoy in a video aimed at recruiting more young people to train as vicars.