Just in time for Eastern Sunday comes Patrick Boivin's Condoms are bad? OK, it probably hasn't been deliberately released to coincide with Easter. But I'm guessing it has something to do with something...

On March 17, Pope Benedict XVI made some controversial comments to a group of reporters who were following him on a trip to Africa. He said that AIDS was a "tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, and that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems". The statement caused immediate outrage worldwide. The Vatican later backtracked, saying that all the Pope had meant to say was that condoms "risked" aggravating the problem.

Naturally, this is a touchy subject. This epidemic has taken more than 25 million of our fellow human beings since 1981, and in Africa alone there are more than 11 million children who have been orphaned by AIDS. Not only that, but condoms have been scientifically proven to be a deterrent to contracting the disease.

Given all that, you would expect quite a bit of anger on the part of Boivin, but he lets the video speak for itself and just tries to have fun. We see the Pope (I won't say it's Benedict, because his face has been blurred out) being sneaky and jumping up and down on a rubber. Then Jesus arrives. (No, seriously.) God's only son proceeds to karate-kick His Holiness. He then does some Force s**t and holds the repaired rubber up over his head, where it glows like a halo. How hilariously blasphemous!

Condoms are bad? is the most original of Boivin's stop-motion animated videos because it's the first one that's been ripped from the headlines. But it's also interesting to see how fast he was able to turn this thing around and still make it look so great. This is an uproarious and incendiary piece of work.