The sculpture pictured above, titled Zuerst Die Fuesse (Feet First) depicts a frog, crucified, holding a beer mug in one hand, and an egg in the other, and has drawn the ire from Catholic leaders, including The Pope himself. An Italian museum in Bolzano has refused to remove the piece of art despite The Vatican labeling it as blasphemous garbage. The Pope is on vacay so he didn’t respond directly, but one of his cronies issued a statement on his behalf saying the piece was trash and offended all Catholics.

P.S. The artist, Martin Kippenberger has been dead for eleven years.

It’s nice to see that the leaders of the world’s most practiced religion (some say it’s Muslim but who’s counting right?) are tackling the hard hitting issues, like drunken cartoon frogs nailed to crosses that were made over a decade ago by some long dead German hack. It’s stories like this that seriously make me consider giving up Shatnerology and converting.