From the secret archives of the Church...

One little anecdote that stuck in my mind from the exhibition on the papacy and the Vatican at the Basilique Notre-Dame:

The story of this old missionary who died while on a ship from China to Japan. His last imploring words were: "Anime!...Anime!".

Of course it's assumed he was using the plural of the latin Anima and was merely craving for more souls to "save", but I like to think that in his delirium he received visions of the future and was desperately trying to make sense of the giant robots and screaming schoolgirls...

(En passant, cette exposition offre une rare occasion de ressuscitter la vieille blague: pourquoi les prêtres n'ont-ils pas de voitures? Parce que les habits sacerdotaux.)