Ignatius stops sale of Charlotte Church works after singer's TV pilot

http://www.catholic.org/ ^ | 8 14 06 | Simon Caldwell

[freepatriot32]

LONDON - The U.S. publishing company Ignatius Press has refused to sell any works by Welsh singer Charlotte Church after she called German-born Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi and mocked the Catholic Church.

The directors of Ignatius Press said they were offended when the Welsh singer mocked the Catholic Church in the pilot of a proposed eight-part television chat show.

Church, dubbed the "Voice of an Angel" before she turned her talents to popular music, also dressed up as a nun and pretended to hallucinate while eating "communion" wafers imprinted with smiling faces signifying the drug Ecstasy.

She smashed open a statue of the Virgin Mary to reveal a can of hard cider inside, said she worshipped "St. Fortified Wine," and stuck chewing gum on a statue of the child Jesus.

Ignatius Press announced that Church's products have been withdrawn from its Web site and catalogue.

"It is with regret that we do this," the company said in a statement to its customers on its Web site, www.ignatius.com.

"Miss Church possesses a great gift from God, and in the past she has used her talent often to offer praise and glory to Our Lord," the statement said.

"We cannot stand by a young woman who uses her stature in the media to mock the Eucharist, slander the Holy Father, and denigrate the vows of religious women," it continued.

"Therefore, our catalogues and Web site will immediately withdraw all compact discs, cassette tapes, DVDs and VHS tapes that feature Miss Church. Please join us in praying for this troubled young woman," the statement added.

Church declined to comment.

Church, 20, was raised a Catholic and sang for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican at the age of 12.

The pilot for "The All New Charlotte Church Show" was filmed before a live studio audience July 12.

Ignatius Press was founded by Father Joseph Fessio, a California Jesuit who studied under the future Pope Benedict at the University of Regensburg in Germany in the 1970s and who continues to be a close friend.

Pope Benedict, the son of a German policeman opposed to Nazism, was forced into the Hitler Youth movement as a child, and during World War II he served briefly in an anti-aircraft battalion

[PJ-Comix]

She must have been reading the Dixie Chicks playbook on how to destroy her own career.

[xp38]

As you can see by post 35 she has been singing for food. :)

[jocon307]

And, in fairness, Sinead O'Connor wasn't singing for the pope or selling her wares via religious marketers. This girl don't know which side her bread is buttered on.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Unfortunately, much of the entertainment industry believes tasteless, vulgar slander is lighthearted irreverent humor. Maybe it is in their alternate universe.

I suspect that were she the object of similar "satirical" assaults, we'd be hearing a whole lot of whining from her and her adoring fans.

[RoadTest]

""Miss Church possesses a great gift from God, and in the past she has used her talent often to offer praise and glory to Our Lord," the statement said."

She still does, only now she's also an iconoclast, like Gideon (Judges 6:25).

iconoclast |??kän??klast| noun 1 a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions. 2 a destroyer of images used in religious worship, in particular • historical a supporter of the 8th- and 9th-century movement in the Byzantine Church that sought to abolish the veneration of icons and other religious images. • historical a Puritan of the 16th or 17th century.

Statues in churches are an abomination.

[vimto]

Charlotte Church has been doing things to get rid of her old 'goody two shoes' image for the last 2 years. She is always in the Brit press, looking piddled or some such.

She wants to make it in MTV video/music. She wants to say look 'I'm all grown up'.

Of course she is still young and vulnerable.... she hasn't had a childhood in the way most of us have. Maybe it will take her longer to mature. I'm just trying to think the best.... I'm not sure I really believe it myself.

[IrishBrigade]

...Stautes in churches are an abomination...

And do you feel likewise about all things artistic involving religion...in other words, is Michalangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel an abomination as well???

Good luck tilting at windmills, Don Quixote...

[JRios1968]

Miss Jenkins sang the Welsh National Anthem "Hen wlad fy nhadau" (Land of My Fathers)...

Are you sure it isn't "Klaatu Barada Nikto"? :)

[SoftballMominVA]

Sounds like she is trying to be the new Madonna, looking for ways to blaspheme the church.

[oyez]

As we say down South, "As popular as a fart in church."

[Skooz]

By the way, will the MSM recoil with horror from this as they did from Muhammed cartoons and a drunken Mel Gibson?

Oh, you know the answer to that question.

[oyez]

Statues in churches are an abomination.

Not necessarily. Statues have gotten a bad rap from people who haven't been in the Catholic church or just need another reason the criticize Catholics for worshiping idols or what ever. Statutes are no different than a picture of Moses parting the Red Sea or an image of Christ on a stained glass window.

[Pyro7480]

Most of us Recovering Catholics DO have a grudge, and for good reason.

Oh? Explain.

[RoadTest]

"Good luck tilting at windmills, Don Quixote..."

Hey - it's all gonna come out in the wash!

[RoadTest]

"Statutes are no different than a picture of Moses parting the Red Sea or an image of Christ on a stained glass window." - -

- - until you see someone kneel down and pray to it.

[bd476]

Y Ddraig Goch ddyry gychwyn

Translation: The Red Dragon will show the way (slogan often accompanying the Red Dragon, symbol of Wales) Some Welsh Phrases

Hen wlad fy nhadau

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;
Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr tra mâd,
Tros ryddid gollasant eu gwaed.

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad.
Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau,
O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.

Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd
Pob dyffryn, pob clogwyn, i’m golwg sydd hardd
Trwy deimlad gwladgarol, mor swynol yw si
Ei nentydd, afonydd, i mi

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad.
Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau,
O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.

Os triesiodd y gelyn fy ngwlad dan ei droed
Mae hen iaith y Gymry mor fyw ag erioed
Ni luddiwyd yr awen gan erchyll law brad
Na thelyn bersieniol fy ngwlad

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad.
Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau,
O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.

See Catherine Jenkins singing the Welsh National Anthem

[RoadTest]

God hated idol worship in the Old Testament. Do you think He's changed His mind and now likes them?

[pepperdog]

She needs to meet up with the Dixie Chicks, they are cut from the same cloth...the stupid bolt.