The league complained to World’s Funniest Videos about an April 25 episode which showed a priest in Rome twice dropping the Host while giving Communion to a man; the priest was ridiculed for doing so.

The response from the show was unpersuasive: “Under no circumstances did World’s Funniest Videos ever intend to use any material that was insensitive to any religion.” We even learned that the owner of the company and the executive producer of the show is a Catholic (their emphasis). As if that makes the cheap shot any less offensive.

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