Catholic retail outlets sell mass-produced devotional goods

Evidence

My first assignment was to go shopping at the largest Catholic retail outlet in downtown Los Angeles. They sold everything from incense burners to nuns’ habits, and, don’t quote me on this, but I even think I saw packets of freeze-dried Holy Eucharist. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 221

Categorization

  • CANDY: Freeze-dried Holy Eucharist at a religious Costco is an absurd, tweetable image.
  • XREF: connects to: Christian bookstore growth from 270 to 3000 stores catalyzed evangelical culture — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 72

Broader Connections