Newsflash: We're all perverts! Yeah, I guess that isn't news to many of you, but now the pope thinks so as well. In a message marking the church's World Communications Day, Pope Palpatine Benedict XVI had choice words to say about our favorite pastime.

"Any trend to produce programs and products — including animated films and video games — which in the name of entertainment exalt violence and portray anti-social behavior or the trivialization of human sexuality is a perversion"

Sheesh. Give a guy a giant pointy hat and suddenly he's the big perversion expert. Of course his stance comes as no surprise, as the Catholic church has long maintained a strict anti-anything fun whatsoever stance. Still you have to wonder, ubi possum potiri petasi similis isti? Michael Fahey

'Perverse' media upsets pope [CNN.com]