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Catholic diocese says it regrets Stuttgart 'slime Jesus' nativity
The Guardian
|January 14, 2026
A Roman Catholic diocese in Germany has expressed regret over a Christmas Eve mass shown on national television featuring a "slime Jesus".
The broadcast on ARD television from St Mary's church in Stuttgart showed a manger in which a female performance actor was huddled up and covered with sticky paper.
The officiating priest, Thomas Steiger, said during the service: "The nativity scene shows a real human being, lying there miserable, naked and exposed." Next to him the actor breathed heavily and slowly writhed in the paper, which was meant to represent vernix covering the holy child.
"This is how radically God becomes human: close, touchable, without distance, real," said Steiger, who is an on-camera clergyman for the regional public broadcaster SWR.
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