Joy Behar is lucky she doesn’t live in Slovakia.

As RNS columnist Fr. James Martin reported yesterday on the America magazine blog, the television personality made some offensive remarks this week disparaging the mental health of Roman Catholic saints.

One wonders what those cracks would have earned her had she made them on the air in a certain Central European country.

Slovakian authorities have fined a television station nearly $90,000 for making light fun of the so-called “Ten Commandments” of driving, a Vatican document published last year that lays out ethical guidelines for the use of the road.