Aliens, the Other White Meat

Here’s a recipe for cosmic comedy: • Heat one doomed world with a life-searing double sun • Remove a spaceship full of refugees • Add a shipwreck on a small blue planet • Stir in a family of megalomaniacal chicken farmers trying to harness the alien secret of immortality • Blend a crazed Islamic cleric and a crooked Pope with an ambitious self-centered papal envoy and an ex-KGB hit-man • Whip with a drunken prophet, who draws pilgrims by his visions of a feathered Madonna, seen in an oil stain • Beat in a Christian sniper • Sprinkle in a pinch of romance And watch the sparks fly at the Holy Toll Shrine.