Posted on 06/09/2005 11:50:50 AM PDT by Dancing Jane
CBS PETITIONED TO PROBE SHOWTIME
Catholic League president William Donohue explained today the leagues strategy for dealing with Showtime, the cable network that recently aired a hate-filled episode of Penn and Teller:
On May 23, 24 and 27, Showtimes Penn and Teller aired the Holier Than Thou episode that has so enraged Catholics, as well as people of all faiths (click here). The obscene assault on Mother Teresa, her Missionaries of Charity and the Catholic Church was arguably the most vicious anti-Catholic fare ever shown on television in the United States. An excerpt of this show was sent to 350 persons of influence, including every bishop who commands a diocese. Now we want results.
Beginning today, we are launching a nation-wide campaign demanding that CBS initiate a probe into this matter. Why CBS? Showtime is owned by Viacom, and Viacom has many subsidiaries in the entertainment and communications industries, none of which is more prominent than CBS. Now it may be that those who work at CBS had nothing to do with the offending Showtime episode. Nonetheless, CBS bears corporate responsibility. Just as important, the famous CBS name has been sullied by what Showtime did.
We are focusing our attention on two persons: Leslie Moonves, Chairman and CEO of CBS, and Nancy Tellem, President, CBS Paramount Network (Showtime is a Paramount TV studio that will remain with CBS even if Viacom splits into two entities this summer). The petition (click here) seeks justice: We want those responsible for this bigoted assault on Catholicism to be held accountable for the damage they have done.
In addition to pushing this petition on our website, we will ask our members to get involved: the July-August edition of Catalyst, our monthly journal, will reprint the petition. We are most proud of the support that we have received from those outside the Catholic community. They know whats at stake and they look to CBS to correct it.
Actually, this is pretty much common knowledge. What do you know about her facilities around the world? If it were just a theory, and much evidence had not been submitted to support that fact, I would be more concerned about trying to convince you of it.
I should say, refute me with facts of your own. Mine are already well know.
You should not forget, that Catholocism in Ireland, is a shade different than the rest of the world. Theirs developed differently, due in part to their isolation from the rest of Europe.
Irish Catholic priests have traditionally taken sides in political disputes, even to the point of violence for a long time in history now. This stems back to the time when England ruled them with an iron fist and they felt they must resist the protestants and all the bads things they perceived they brought upon the Irish.
There is little dispute regarding many of the facts, and they are so widely known now. For instance, someone who didn't like your beliefs to begin with, could call you a drugged-out pedophile matricide, and state it over and over until gullible readers accept it. But I wouldn't believe it without proof.:)
I beg to differ. This happens all the time. Need I remind you of the many, many erroneous statements by the Democrats in this country? They formulate catch phrases all the time that the Media repeats ad nauseum, till it become true in the general public perception.
Perhaps you, like many of us here (we are Freepers, after all) can discern the truth of a matter after looking at some facts. However, that is not always true of the broader general population.
I just can't find anyone who is denying what these folks have asserted. If someone would say that she did indeed provide healthcare, she didn't have millions in the bank that could not be spent, that she did say Diana would be better off divorced while fighting for Ireland not to repeal their divorce ban, syaing that the God in your head is the one you should go with..."
Someone please, give me other facts. The fact that a lot of people were sad when she died does not negate the fact.
I might also add, don't even bother mentioning she won the Un-Noble Peace prize. So did Yasser Arafat.
...or anitbiotics, or aspirin, or any kind of medical treatment at all. Who knows if he could have been treated and saved. Likley, if he was able to talk, and they removed the worms from his body, he might have been able to be treated further.
Aunty, you don't need to freepmail or ping me again until you can come up with something other than Christopher Hitchens' unproven allegations. And older Freepers can remember Mr. Hitchens from the Oct. 31, 1998 MFJ in Washington D.C. He was there also, with an estimated 4,000 Freepers and he made less than a good impression. If he could stay sober for a while he might write a good book.
interesting web title secular humanism
Yuu know the hospitals in India are not obligated to treat everyone. For God's sake they took the maggots off this man and gave him a few minutes of dignity in his life.
You have no other sources that I know of, and your maudlin comments about "being a Christian" are unbelievable, to put it politely. It's wonderful you joined FR last month, and now let's see your proof of Mother Teresa's sins from another source than the permanently soused Christopher Hitchens.
Considering how much Showtime has devoted itself to pro-homosexual programming, could they have come up with a better word in the headline than "probe"?
Antoninus,
This is one of my fondest anecdotes about Mother Teresa. It explains many things that you are hearing on this board from certain quarters.
Mother Teresa was visited by a very prominent prelate. The Monsignor came to watch her nuns feed the poor and dying and to care for them in their final hours. He was deeply moved. He blessed the foundress of the Missionaries of Charity and those nuns there, and went off to catch his train.
He had gotten only several hundred yards from the Mission in Calcutta when he found an elderly man covered with sores and dying in the gutter. He grew very upset and then became extremely angry. He hurried back to Mother Teresa and accosted her. "Mother," he said, "there is a man dying in the street not more than 300 yards from here! Why didn't your nuns find this man and bring him here for care and treatment? He is dying!"
The tiny nun finished cleaning a poor soul about to die, and then looked up at the irritated priest. "Monsignor," she said, "the Sisters and I look after all the souls that God chooses to put into our path. These are those you see here. This dying man you speak of was placed in YOUR path. God has made him your responsibility!"
In a nutshell, this is what you are experiencing here.
In my younger days, I had occasion to see an occasional poor soul covered with maggots who lost limbs or worse for lack of simple hygiene and care. How many who are second guessing this good nun, including Hitchens, have ignored such poor souls and walked on? Mother Teresa didn't.
Frank
Excellent! Thank you for that post .. I had not read this one. Very reminiscent of all the antagonism tossed at Mother Angelica and the EWTN network she founded. The 'princes' would come, take a tour and depart, commending her on her good works, when she actually needed money to get the network up and running.
One day, Mother called in the janitor and asked him to take stakes, string and rags outside. She then asked him to stake off a certain plot of land by planting the stakes, stringing the rope and hanging the white rags. The next day a visiting Cardinal asked her what it represented. She commented that this was "a reminder" to God that she needed a studio. He returned to his diocese and several weeks later a generous check arrived in the mail from an anonymous donor.
We are all part of the same community. May we continue to rebuild it on the strength of our faith in Christ, our Lord.
I left the Catholic church over exactly this issue, although not in Ireland. In South and Central America and in Africa, Catholic "Missionaries," chief among them the American Maryknoll order, were teaching "Liberation Theology," which among other things said, "Jesus was the first Communist," and "Jesus was a revolutionary," and "If he were alive today he would support Fidel and Los Barbudos against the Yanqui."
The Maryknolls ran safe houses. They indoctrinated terrorists. They stored, maintained, and issued weapons.
They did all this with money from decent Catholics in America who thought they were helping hard-working missionaries to spread the word of the Lord, and who would have been mortified if they knew what their contributions really did.
So don't say there are no Catholic terrorists. My grandmother had been giving to these creeps for forty-something years, and they were leaning on her for a position in her will. I walked her through what was being done in her name in El Salvador, Nicaragua (where priests acted as informers and betrayed confessional sanctity to the Sandinista regime! Out of "solidarity!") and other places -- it was hard to do only using open sources, but fortunately all the Maryknoll stuff that had been sent to her, she still had.
After that the priest that had done my confirmation contacted me and criticized me for it (how did he learn? Her pastor, or the Maryknolls?) and told me I was "greedy" and "mean" and "a bad Catholic" because I didn't share "the missionary order's committment to 'social justice'" meaning, of course, 'revolution.'
There are many, many good, decent, Christian people in the Catholic Church at all levels from the lowliest parishioner to the highest levels of the hierarchy. I have no doubt that while the Maryknolls wanted me and my friends and our Latino allies dead, that the Pope (John Paul II) was on our side. But there are also some bad people in the church. After all, it's made up of many millions, all (by definition) sinners.
I have no opinion on Mother Teresa. Hitchens is so angry that he casts doubt on his own case, and I'm sure I'll never see the Penn and Teller show. But there are most definitely Catholic terrorists, and you can take that to the bank.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
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