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 romanceAnd watch the sparks fly at the Holy Toll Shrine.

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