Christmas Eve live broadcast showed holy child portrayed by female performance artist writhing in sticky rice paper
A Roman Catholic diocese in Germany has expressed regret over a Christmas Eve mass shown on national television featuring a “slime Jesus”.
The broadcast on ARD television from St Mary’s in Stuttgart showed a manger in which a female performance actor was huddled up in a foetal position and covered with sticky rice paper.
The officiating priest, Thomas Steiger, said during the service: “The nativity scene shows a real human being, lying there miserable, naked and exposed.”
Next to him the actor breathed heavily and slowly writhed in the paper, which was apparently meant to represent vernix covering the newborn child.
