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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: rwfromkansas

Be sure to use that expression during your particular judgment and see how far it gets you.


401 posted on 12/28/2005 2:51:27 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: KarlInOhio

". . . whirlwind of namecalling. . "

Just wait. The haters will respond with 20-page posts clipped from some religious article that tries to lawyer its way around the original laguage.

They already think the worst of me as a Jew-converted-to-Christianity AND a Freemason; actually reading scripture will cause them to explode.


402 posted on 12/28/2005 2:51:47 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: MeanWestTexan
I would think it is the proper name for a geographic (in this context) location, so yes.

But it could be a state of mind...but I guess you're right, capitalize just to make sure!
403 posted on 12/28/2005 2:51:53 PM PST by motzman (God helps those who help themselves - B. Franklin)
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To: churchillbuff
Can't let you get away with that distortion. The vulgarity that is the hallmark of this show is STRAIGHT out of the 60s. Marx Bros lampooned, but no obscenity, no vulgarity. It was the 60s - and all the destructive ideas that they ushered in - that made vulgarity and obscenity fashionable.

So that's all conservatism is to you? Not saying the F-word?

Wow. You're terribly ignorant of what political conservatism is.

Go be a Christian socialist somewhere else. Maybe you can get a job in the ministry of culture or something.

404 posted on 12/28/2005 2:51:59 PM PST by mc6809e
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To: yellowdoghunter
...and that is when our culture started to go downhill.

Most of the people on FR know that you're DELIGHTED that the culture is going downhill; it plays right into your neediness to be morally superior to everybody in the world who isn't as big a prude as you are, which is just about everybody.

405 posted on 12/28/2005 2:52:28 PM PST by Howlin (Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
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To: mc6809e

There's a term for conservatives who aren't social conservatives: Conservative In Name Only.


406 posted on 12/28/2005 2:53:03 PM PST by balch3
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To: Clemenza
Not true. South Park has blasphemed Judaism, Islam, Mormonism and Scientology.

You're wasting your font on that one; his tunnel vision doesn't see the truth.

407 posted on 12/28/2005 2:53:57 PM PST by Howlin (Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
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To: churchillbuff
Sorry ...you're WRONG!!!

When I was a small child (seems like years ago)...I remember my parents having record albums by guys like Redd Foxx....etc.

Plus as I grew older (seems like years ago)...I remember talking with my Grandparents about Vaudeville...and just how racy they were. Seems a LOT of cussing went on there too....not to mention the sexual stuff.

....and if you look at Early American History (one of my favorite things to do) you will find cussing and cursing and all sorts of vulgarity.

"South Park"....is nothing new.Just a continuation....

redrock

p.s. Hope you have a Great New Year.

408 posted on 12/28/2005 2:54:10 PM PST by redrock ("I woke up this morning...everything else is just Dessert."--some old guy in Utah)
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To: MeanWestTexan
The haters"""

I love it. Another Leftist slur employed against supporters of traditional values. The South Park lovers are showing they've learned the vocabulary of the Left very well.

409 posted on 12/28/2005 2:54:31 PM PST by churchillbuff
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To: Stopislamnow

oh my goodness.

That is AWESOME!


410 posted on 12/28/2005 2:54:49 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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To: AzaleaCity5691

Post 324


411 posted on 12/28/2005 2:55:10 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: redrock
I remember talking with my Grandparents about Vaudeville...and just how racy they were. Seems a LOT of cussing went on there too....not to mention the sexual stuff.

Didn't they have burlesque dancers between acts, too?

412 posted on 12/28/2005 2:55:13 PM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: republicofdavis

This thread is so funny it needs to be on South Park.

The book told me so.


413 posted on 12/28/2005 2:55:13 PM PST by MonroeDNA (Look for the union label--on the bat crashing through your windshield!)
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To: Undecided; Howlin
South Park isn't saying "let your kids do this", it's saying that if you don't do your job as parents this is what they'll do.

Nicely put.

Children are by nature lying little troublemakers.

414 posted on 12/28/2005 2:55:42 PM PST by harrowup (Born perfect and humble about it.)
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To: churchillbuff
So you're in bad company, but I'm not surprised.

Oh, I know I'm in bad company; after all, you're on this thread/forum.

415 posted on 12/28/2005 2:56:36 PM PST by Howlin (Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
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To: Howlin

Geez, for a minute there, I thought I was in the DUmpster, with all of these blasphemous posts. Thanks to those defenders of upright, American culture for proving me wrong!

,sarcasm off>


416 posted on 12/28/2005 2:56:51 PM PST by Sterm26 (Indict....no, HANG Joe Wilson!)
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To: bamahead

I'm loving your posts! Dead on.


417 posted on 12/28/2005 2:56:56 PM PST by Howlin (Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
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To: Howlin

"preverted not-conservative imbeciles,"

I like that! We can start a new wing of the conservative moment called PI for Perverted Imbeciles (as opposed to PC).

I can see Wolf Blitzed now (in a deadly serious voice): "Bitter infighting continues in the deeply fractured conservative movement. Today, the renegade PI wing sided with liberals by stating that they liked South Park. One leading expert predicts that this wing will bolt from the Republican party and vote en masse for Democrats in the upcoming 2006 elections... Gloomy news for President Bush seems neverending".


419 posted on 12/28/2005 2:57:01 PM PST by American in Singapore (Liberals: They even lie in their diaries)
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To: bobbdobbs

I believe it was a mixture of both. He was always God in human form, but also there is a mystery regarding his knowledge of his mission.

He definitely did not know everything from day one, which is interesting to ponder. Yet, he also had to know he was incarnated.

It is a paradox, but that is not rare for Almighty God.


420 posted on 12/28/2005 2:57:05 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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