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Luce, a cartoon mascot for Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee, appeals to a younger generation while embracing time-honored traditions

  • Written by Virginia Raguin, Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emerita, College of the Holy Cross
image The Vatican introduces Luce at the Lucca Comics and Game convention in 2024.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKiGMGkc0xk screenshot via Wikimedia.com, CC BY

Luce, the anime-inspired official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee, whose name means “light” in Italian, has been getting a lot of attention on social media. Some...

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