Years ago MTV had a show called “Celebrity Death Match” wherein stop-motion animated figures of celebrities would go into a boxing ring and fight. Hilarity abounded as much as their personas clashed.

I think EWTN should have a similar show in which saints, blesseds, venerables and servants of God would go into an MMA-style cage and have at it! Their scripted lines would be derived from their writings and sayings attributed to them. Hilarity would abound as much as their differing viewpoints on theology, dogmas and doctrines. “Unity in the essentials, but diversity in the details, ” and it’ll be in the details where the spiritual blood and guts would pour forth.

There would be 5 classes of fights: saints vs saints, blesseds vs blesseds, etc. Plus  an “Open Tournament” where, for example, a saint could do battle against a servant of God.

The Blessed Virgin Mary would be the referee, of course.

I really think that “Heavenly Helpers Cage Battles” would be an excellent catechetical and evangelical tool. Imagine how much you could learn about Just War Doctrine by having St. Maximilian Kolbe (not a pacifist) go up against Servant of God Dorothy Day ( a pacifist) in an Open Tournament.

They needn’t use stop-motion animation, they could use CGI, vector graphics, whatevs.

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