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BISHOPS' PRESIDENT BLASTS 'SOUTH PARK' EPISODE LAMPOONING MARY (Disgusting!)
Catholic News Service ^
| 12/19/2005
| Staff
Posted on 12/28/2005 1:12:12 PM PST by FerdieMurphy
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The president of the U.S. bishops blasted a recent episode of the cable television comedy "South Park" that he said showed Mary in "a tasteless and ugly fashion."
In a Dec. 14 letter to Tom Freston, co-president and chief operating officer of Viacom International, parent company of Comedy Central, the cable channel that shows "South Park," Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., said the channel showed "extreme insensitivity" in choosing to show the episode.
The episode, which first was shown Dec. 7 and had repeat showings in the week following, was titled "Bloody Mary." During the episode, a "South Park" character claims to have been sprayed with blood from a bodily orifice of a Virgin Mary statue.
When Pope Benedict XVI investigates in the show, he declares that she was merely menstruating. The episode's premiere date came the day before the feast of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day of obligation for Catholics.
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To: FerdieMurphy
yes they would....they take no prisoners.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:43:26 PM PST
by
Vaquero
To: FerdieMurphy
It was tasteless and funny.I am gonna give you a hint, not everyone is religous.
To: pogo101
You hit that right on the head.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:43:46 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
To: Bahbah
No one would call me a South Park liberal...or an anyting liberal for that matter. Me either!!!LOL
124
posted on
12/28/2005 1:44:15 PM PST
by
A.Hun
(Democrats suck worse than ice storms.)
To: balch3
I'm not going to read that.
Mary was a HUMAN FEMALE. Hence, she Menstruated....
To: Phantom Lord
"Of course, those who never saw the show and all they know if it is its title, Jesus vs. Santa, would immediately assume it was mocking and making fun of Jesus."
Similar to the morons who assume this current show is mocking Mary and not the idiots who venerate toast or a waffle or somesuch.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:44:26 PM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: FerdieMurphy
Not any worse than those morons who see the Virgin Mary is everything from Tortillas to water stains.
If ya don't like it, change the channel and/or don't purchase products from South Park advertisers.
I thought the episode was funny. I merely mocked those who have a tendency to see apparitions in everything.
127
posted on
12/28/2005 1:44:44 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(Smartest words ever written by a Communist: "Show me the way to the next Whiskey Bar")
To: Hound of the Baskervilles
I am a Roman Catholic and I watch it and I like it.God bless you.
Imbecile.
128
posted on
12/28/2005 1:45:07 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
To: Phantom Lord
You lucky guy you!!!!
How'd you get that close to Ann Coulter??(I LOVE her!!)
129
posted on
12/28/2005 1:45:17 PM PST
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: Texas Eagle
yes I do.
None of which I would waste on you though. They are too good for hypocrites.
To: ZULU
Don't tell anyone, but look at the picture again and find my hand.
131
posted on
12/28/2005 1:45:50 PM PST
by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
To: Texas Eagle
God bless you. Imbecile.
What religious philosophy teaches this sort of blessing?
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:46:12 PM PST
by
msnimje
(The World has a hideous and invasive cancer and needs a radical muslimechtomy.)
To: Texas Eagle
Farting noises and F words pretty much began to bore me after 5th grade. But, hey, that's just me.
DO you enjoy being ignorant? You have no idea what the show is even about. Therefore, you are IGNORANT to ASSume stuff about something you have no clue about. Not surprising, coming from you.
To: Phantom Lord
You forgot:
"Everything is about something coming in, or going out of, my asshole."
(the alien anal probe episode)
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:46:30 PM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: FerdieMurphy
Dude, the episode was about how stupid it is to call alcoholism a "disease" instead of just not drinking. The "Virgin Mary" referenced was a statue and it was meant to make fun of people who see the Virgin Mary in grilled cheese sandwiches, among other places.
Lighten up. If the Catholic Church condemned child molesting as vehemently as they do "South Park" maybe they wouldn't have to recruit illegals to bolster membership.
(DUCKING QUICKLY)
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:46:47 PM PST
by
oldleft
To: Wormwood
Wrong!
It's not on the Internet. It is broadcast on television. That's my point. Some people might not be aware of what is being shown as a cartoon on TV.
136
posted on
12/28/2005 1:46:49 PM PST
by
i_dont_chat
(Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers. [Stolen from Mark Steyn].)
To: balch3
It's amazing how so many so called conservatives on FR like this show. I agree. I wonder how many of them would watch it with their children or grandchildren in the room?
It is toilet bowl humor...nothing more.
137
posted on
12/28/2005 1:47:03 PM PST
by
yellowdoghunter
(Thank you President Bush for Judge Alito!)
To: FerdieMurphy
"There would never be an episode on South Park that would show the muslims' allah engaged in some perversion." Wanna bet on that? SouthPark goes after everyone!
138
posted on
12/28/2005 1:47:11 PM PST
by
fhlh
(Polls are for strippers and liberal spinsters.)
To: FerdieMurphy
Perhaps you could continue watching your program until you need glasses. Is that what you're trying to pass off as an actual defense of your stupid rant?
Pathetic.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:47:17 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
To: Phantom Lord
You LUCKY GUY YOU!!!!!!!!
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:47:19 PM PST
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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