Is the Church ready for St. Homer?

The Vatican’s official newspaper has published a story about “The Simpsons” headlined “Homer and Bart are Catholics.”

L’Osservatore Romano goes on to say that although Homer “does everything he can” to hide it, he’s a believer.

The article praises the long-running Fox cartoon, saying “it’s among the few TV programs for children in which Christian faith, religion and questions about God are recurrent themes.”

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It’s never too late.

A Brownsville, Texas, woman has marked the 101st anniversary of her arrival as an infant in the United States by finally becoming a citizen.

Eulalia Garcia-Maturey, who was born in Mexico, took the oath of allegiance during a naturalization ceremony set up especially for her.

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Beauty is in the eye of the iPhone.

A new app scans photos that users take of their faces and rates their ugliness on a scale of 1 to 10.

A picture that generates an ugly rating of 10 comes with the message, “You’re so ugly, when you walk by the bathroom, the toilet flushes.”

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The tide was high on the Shawsheen River in Lawrence, Mass.

Rocky Morrison, part of a group of volunteers cleaning up the river, spotted a floating plastic bag and fished it out.

It turned out to contain marijuana, some of which was packaged for sale.

Cops said the pot was worth $2,000 on the street.

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Is your girlfriend acting cold? Does she sometimes blow her top?

She might appreciate a new perfume made of melt water from the Icelandic volcano that erupted in April.

The citrus-smelling scent comes in a square bottle and is packaged with a lava rock.