Bishop lauds Simpsons for talking about faith

BART, Homer and their yellow-faced gang may not seem like the best church-going family in the world.

However, The Simpsons has been praised by one Catholic Bishop as the only programme on television that deals with the issue of faith.

In a wide-ranging address in which he also warned against the dangers posed by the growing cult of celebrity, the Bishop of Limerick Dr Donal Murray said religion never comes into question on most television dramas and soaps, and “since the departure of Glenroe, nobody goes to Mass”.