Our Heaven is cooler

Very funny, and true!!! I expect to see all my Irish relatives when I die (althought wether I'll see them in HEAVEN is a different matter)

That just made my day. Got to watch it again.

Thanks. I loved the drinking and fighting in Catholic heaven. What would life be without all of that?

Looks like fun. Why, even the Lord's having so much fun.

This whole episode was amazing. Probably the first time in 40 years someone decided to treat the Catholic Church with a modicum of respect.

My favorite part was when Rev. Lovejoy said the true faith is "the Mid-western branch of the American Presbo-Lutheran church."

Whoever wrote the episode was spot-on. Bart is indeed a Catholic underneath it all -- he perfectly embodies the concept of fallen man battling his darker half. And all Homer wants is good food and beer.

For me, the trenchant part was when Ned talks about breaking with Rome over "our holy right to come to church with wet hair! Which...we've...since abolished."

Reminds me of Mark Shea's Truth Cancer

Sorry. Link here: http://www.mark-shea.com/cancer.html

I wonder what is the difference between protestant Hell and Catholic Hell?

Unfortunately, the episode ends, as one would expect, with the tired and wildly unsatisfying, "It's ALL Christianity." and has a futuristic scene where armies are fighting over picadillos in interpreting Bart's words. Meh.

Try putting Catholic and Protestant into googlefight.com - you'll love the result!

The Simpsons is one of the very few shows out there that actually presents a world of right and wrong and the importance of family. That episode indeed was one of the fairest treatments the Church has recieved on TV in my memory. The ending about tollerence seemed weak and tacked on, and I'll bet it was only added at the suggestions of higher-ups who felt the episode was too pro-Catholic.

I like Catholic Heaven better.

O my gosh! That is wicked hilarious! Pretty good conceptualization of heaven, as we RC-ers see it! (not divided, but as a place to have a roaring good time *in communio.*

Must send.

I have never seen this!!!

This is so funny!

The day before yesterday, my daughter and I remarked "Why in the world would anyone want to be Protestant? They have no culture." This sort of resembles our weddings and First Holy Communions...

There are no Protestant heaven, or Hindu heaven, or Budhist heaven or Moslem heaven. There's only Catholic heaven.

The episode was decent CONSIDERING how Hollywood always portrays Catholicism lately. But it could be better.

isn't Heaven an eternal wedding party, the marriage feast of the Lamb? much merriment up there

My favorite part of the episode was that it was upon learning about what a great deal confession is that Homer decided to convert.

Here is a link that tells about the whole episode.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Father%2C_The_Son%2C_and_The_Holy_Guest_Star

the episode ended brilliantly. great satire on religious quarrelling over interpretation over text and not so far from the truth.

satire is supposed to make you think, if you object to satire, then there's something wrong.