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.

[rwfromkansas]

I am surprised scientology didn't actually sue them for that episode (at least I haven't heard of one).

[Howlin]

I know....I know......I post like a mean old guy! :-)

[churchillbuff]

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

Vulgarity entered our mainstream culture in the 60s. That's part of the definition of "The Sixties" -- it's what is meant by using the term as a definition for a cultural revolution. You won't be able to cite any mainstream films (as opposed to back-alley cult movies) before mid to late sixties that included obscentity or even vulgarity in significant way. You simply are denying a commonly understood fact - what the 60s revolution was all about. South Park is a child of that revolution.

[MeanWestTexan]

Relax, I was not talking about you.

[conserv13]

Mary only had one child, his name was Jesus, she was a virgin the day she was born and she was one the day she died.

I don't believe that, and it can't be proven or disroven anyhow.

[retrokitten]

It was fairly recent give it time. Knowing scientologists they have their legal team working 24/7 on it.

[cloud8]

> Only imbeciles watch South Park

Watch your language, please.

[redrock]

Yep!!

I have a book around here someplace that talks about the small Carnivals that traveled around the country.

Seems that there were TWO shows....one for the kids...and one for the adults at a later time in the night.

redrock

[The SISU kid]

Het F.M.,

Wow!!!

You're a semi-newbie (Since Oct 13, 2005) & the poster of this thread with over 400 responses, yet you only reopened to ONE post???

sniff....snif....

Can stand the heat, stay outta the kitchen.....

8^)

[HairOfTheDog]

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

Heh... and the best part is, they don't ~know~ they're funny.

[Texas Eagle]

Actually, TX Eagle... "Menstruating-American" = Very funny! I like that!

Funny the South Parkers didn't find it funny. Not only are they imbeciles, but they're hypocrites.

[Howlin]

Frankly, I worry about the children of some of these posters.

Or what will happen when the children of some of these posters don't "live up" to these morally correct expectations some of these people have.

[MeanWestTexan]

I bet they are afraid Tom Cruise's sex life would "come out of the closet."

[churchillbuff]

they don't ~know~ they're funny."""

We know we're being laughed at. Cultural leftists have always used derisive laughter as a way of undermining traditional values and people who defend them. That goes way back. Lenin probably laughed mockingly at the defenders of the Orthodox Church.

[Quick1]

Or, you can simply call them True Conservatives. They know that the best government is the smallest one possible, and they have been around for much longer than social conservatives, who want to expand government into our homes.

[HairOfTheDog]

Funny the South Parkers didn't find it funny. Not only are they imbeciles, but they're hypocrites.

I'm one of those South Park fans... one of their most adoring fans. And I'm menstruating...

I just think it's cool to be a hyphenated person. :~D

[HairOfTheDog]

We know we're being laughed at.

But will you ever see that you're actually pretty funny?

[Howlin]

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference, isn't it?

[Texas Eagle]

Funny how South Parkers are offended by such words as "imbecile", and at the same time they are defending a show that uses the F word in just about every other sentence along with references to menstruating and the aforementioned bathroom noises.

Obviously the show has muddled their demented brains.