To
Catholics, the week before Easter is Holy Week, a time to prepare for
the most special feast day of the year: celebrating the resurrection of
Christ. To Hollywood, it is a time to flog the Catholic Church with
vicious portrayals of corruption and hypocrisy.
Hollywood insists that its products reflect a market demand. But there
is no market demand for this. It is Hollywood, and only Hollywood, that
wishes to vocalize its bigotry toward Catholics.
The
cops discover that the auxiliary bishop of New York is a crime boss
running a large sex trafficking ring that grooms -- here we go --
vulnerable Catholic schoolgirls for prostitution. ("Law and Order: SVU.")
This year, there are entire shows that mock God and Catholics on a
weekly basis. On Tuesday, ABC's announcer actually told viewers, "It's
Easter Week. Celebrate with Tuesday's new hit comedy, next,"
referencing "The Real O'Neal's."
The show mocks an imperfect Catholic family coming to grips with their
gay son named Jimmy. In this week's episode, Jimmy borrows his uptight
mother's computer and looks up gay pornography sites. The computer
freezes and he's stuck with a "pornado" of graphic images. In other
words, they're your average Catholic family -- as viewed by Hollywood.
On Monday night, two shows went to town on the Catholic priesthood and
the Vatican. In the new Fox show called "Lucifer," Satan himself is the
main character. He's bored with his life in hell, so he decides to move
to Los Angeles and becomes involved in helping the Los Angeles Police
Department solve murders. In one episode, Lucifer sneakily climbs into
the priest's side of a church confessional and listens to a rich
married woman confess her lustful thoughts toward her limousine driver.
Lucifer tells her to embrace her lust and then come back to be forgiven.
Also in this episode, a priest he calls "Padre Pederast," who was
suspected of killing a youth drug counselor, is found innocent. But
Lucifer finds another way to offend the faithful: He brings the priest
to a nightclub with exotic dancers. Not just exotic dancers, but exotic
dancers dressed as nuns. It's what priests do -- as viewed by Hollywood.
NBC wins the prize for the nastiest anti-Catholic show. Their
end-of-the-world comedy "You, Me, and the Apocalypse" centers around
Earth's citizens learning that an eight-mile wide meteor is headed
toward Earth. One character named Father Jude (played by Rob Lowe) has
broken his vows of celibacy to marry a nun, and is losing faith in his
superiors.
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