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.

[Texas Eagle]

I am willing to bet the house that NEITHER of you 2 even watched the episode in question.

I don't know about the other guy but I didn't watch it. Farting noises and F words pretty much began to bore me after 5th grade. But, hey, that's just me.

[EveningStar]

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[johniegrad]

Actually, what's funny is that both sides are ready to get into a cyber-fistfight about a cartoon.

[Texas Eagle]

Shove it PRIG

Ooooooh. Good comeback. Do you have a South Park Dictionary of Witty Rejoinders or something?

[balch3]

A "cartoon" that's vile, blaasphemous and obscene.

[i_dont_chat]

Here is the transcript of the subject episode:

Bloody Mary, Episode #139
Originally aired: Wednesday December 7, 2005 on Comedy Central

http://www.tv.com/bloody-mary/episode/589508/summary.html

Please excuse me, if this has already been posted.

Personally, South Park is not my cup of tea. I wouldn't waste 2 minutes watching it. But perhaps it is useful to know what is being broadcast.

[johniegrad]

I'll have to take your word for it. Never seen it. More interested in the responses.

[SquirrelKing]

I don't want to get along with a lot of these purists. It's damn embarassing for FR; a stereotype, if you will.

LOL

I know better than that, just fanning the flames. This thread got ugly, quick!

[Phantom Lord]

Do you have a South Park Dictionary of Witty Rejoinders or something?

I do.

Suck my balls

You're gay

Your mother was on the cover of crack whore magazine

Screw you guys, I'm going home.

[MarcusTulliusCicero]

Actually, according to Catholic doctrine, that would have to be true. Menstruation and the pains of childbirth are considered part of the punishment laid down by God to Adam and Eve when he threw them out of Eden. This is original sin. Since Mary is the Immaculate Conception, that means she was born without the stain of original sin (since if she wasn't Jesus would have be the product of sin). If Mary is the Immaculate Conception, then she wouldn't have menstruated nor would she have experienced pain during the birth of Jesus.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Main Entry: im·be·cile
Pronunciation: 'im-b&-s&l, -"sil
Function: noun
Etymology: French imbécile, noun, from adjective, weak,
weak-minded, from Latin imbecillus
1 usually offensive : a person affected with moderate mental retardation
2 : FOOL, IDIOT - imbecile or im·be·cil·ic /"im-b&-'si-lik/ adjective

Please put down that rock and brief be on what the Bible says about calling someone a "fool".

[EveningStar]

Tanks! :)

[ZULU]

South Park attacks anything.

They had an episode where the South Park Kids thought they were adopting a goat and it turned out to be an Afghan orphan.

It can be really tasteless at times - as in this episode.

I have mixed feelings about the show in general.

When they are good, they are very good (they did a Halloween Skit once with the frightening face of Barbara Streisand shooting up to cover the screen) and when they are totally tasteless and insensitive and crude, as in this episode, they are appalling.

[Howlin]

It started ugly.

Ignorance is ALWAYS ugly.

[Wormwood]

But perhaps it is useful to know what is being broadcast.

Why bother? It's the Internet: Home of the Uninformed Opinion!

[Quick1]

A "cartoon" that's vile, blaasphemous and obscene.

Have you actually seen it for yourself, or do you only go by what others tell you?

[MeanWestTexan]

"There would never be an episode on South Park that would show the muslims' allah engaged in some perversion."

1. I did not know RCC worshipped Mary, as the muslims worshop allah.

2. South Park has shown the devil sodomizing Saddam Hussein and numerous other similar themes.

They've done similar things to scientology, etc, too.

3. Yes, this is a perversion. Much worse is their repete lampooning of Christ Himself (including a fight between Christ and Santa Claus).

[Howlin]

Well, I wanted to see who started a SP thread with (Disgusting!) in the title; I knew it wasn't you. :-)

[A.Hun]

It is the most biting satire that you can find anywhere on TV.

It lampoons everything. There are no sacred cows.

[wolfcreek]

Me thinks the Bishops need a little humor to help them LIGHTEN UP! SP RULEZ!!