BISHOPS' PRESIDENT BLASTS 'SOUTH PARK' EPISODE LAMPOONING MARY (Disgusting!)

Catholic News Service ^ | 12/19/2005 | Staff

[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.

[Quick1]

I am setting an example. I can only hope that when my children grow up to be ADULTS, they will also be South Park fans. In that, I hope they follow in my footsteps.

[balch3]

If you consider people who stand for morality and decency uptight...

[Howlin]

ROFLMAO.....I laughed so hard at that, my husband came up to the FROG to see what I was laughing for!

[TheCrusader]

"I think the show's an offensive, raunchy but hilarious skewering of many cultural sacred cows..."

" Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" (Isiah 5:20)

[churchillbuff]

I think SouthPark is just another example of the debasing of our culture."""

Obviously. But it's one-sided debasement. Christianity is blasphemed, but not other religions.

[SlowBoat407]

I mean, some of these people are so uptight you wouldn't get a greased BB up their asses with a jackhammer....

Okay... Ouch.

[Howlin]

But you said you don't do things you don't want your children to know about, so I'm assuming you tell them every time you have sex, right?

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"Hollywood blasphemes Christianity but not Judaism -- but maybe this isn't the case with South Park, maybe that show is an equal-opportunity blasphemer. Anyone know?"

The show makes fun of Jews. One of the boys, Kyle, is a Jew. His dad wears a yamakle. Yes the show makes fun of Jews. As when Cartman tells Kyle, "Shut up you goddam Jew!"

[Texas Eagle]

The FR PRIG Patrol is out in full force today, friend!

" Suck my balls You're gay Your mother was on the cover of crack whore magazine"

The preceding quotes are brought to you by one of your fellowSouth Park afficianados.

You must be proud.

[EveningStar]

I mean, some of these people are so uptight you wouldn't get a greased BB up their asses with a jackhammer....

ROFL! I never heard that before!

[Howlin]

That was a quote from the show, right?

FGS, lighten up!

[balch3]

convicted by their own words.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Scripture makes no mention of the Blessed Virgin Mary giving birth to any child other than Jesus.

[discostu]

Or how about the dam burst episode when it turned out Kyle did have a bag of Jew gold. That was pretty solid. And of course the whole idea of being a Jew living in a town where Jesus Himself has a cable access TV show is a little rough.

[rwfromkansas]

Anybody who knows me knows I am a very conservative Calvinist Christian.

Pro-life and the whole nine yards.

But, I am not going to go nuts over a cartoon.

I sometimes leave the room for the parts I don't like such as extra-bad Jesus mockings. But, I am not going to stop watching a show that is otherwise hilarious just because sometimes it has something I don't like.

South Park attacks all sacred cows, and I am okay with that.

[Sensei Ern]

I saw the humor in that, but it wasn't fall off the seat hilarious.

[andyk]

Kyle, the Jewish character, is routinely blasted by Cartman.

Let's not forget the "Jew's can't play basketball" episode!

[pogo101]

Yawn. Your quotation of scripture requires, for one to agree with it, that I begin with the assumption that South Park is bad. I don't. You do, and that's your right, but take your preaching elsewhere, hypocrite.

[yellowdoghunter]

However you wish to take my comment is fine with me. Others know what I meant.

[Quick1]

Christianity is blasphemed, but not other religions.

Completely and utterly WRONG. Just stop saying this myth.