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News reaches us from a reliable source that the Catholic Church in Lithuania plans to sue MTV Lietuva over Popetown.

Lithuanian Bishops’ Conference President Sigitas Tamkevicius told Reuters:

We are going to lodge a complaint in court because we believe that the
rights of the faithful were violated by this mockery

Unfortunately, he did not specify which rights were violated.

The Popetown series is not only an insult to the pope, but to all the
Catholics of Lithuania

he added.

Ema Segal, a spokeswoman for MTV Lietuva, said:

This is just an artistic satire and nothing more. We neither attempted
to mock the religion, nor God himself

Which kind of misses the point. There is nothing wrong with mocking religion (who knows what she means when she says “God himself”?). In fact it is an honourable and necessary activity. Why not admit it, if that’s what you do?