The bishops need to clean the house of those who mislead faithful into sin.
Even the Catholic Church will not survive the prophesy that all the churches will become apostate. God has spoken.
These filthy perverse activities are crimes against nature.
One more instance of institutional Catholic hypocrisy. Christian Catholics--take back your church. Get to work.
Navel gazing buffoons at USCCB in backpedalling damage control mode.
The Pope has his work cut out for him.
What part of "morally offensive" isn't clear ??
Makes you wonder, doesn't it? What IS their agenda?
Read the USCCB review:
http://www.usccb.org/movies/b/brokebackmountain.shtml
Read Forbes' CNS review:
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/movies/05mv682.htm
Read Stephen Bennett's full comments: (warning some graphic sexual language)
http://www.earnedmedia.org/sbm1214.htm
See also Focus on the Family commnents
Reviewers Call 'Brokeback Mountain' Twisted
Gay love story carries a high "ick" factor.
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0038874.cfm
MovieGuide Review:
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Twisted, Laughable, Frustrating, Plotless, and Often Boring
http://www.movieguide.org/index.php?s=reviews&id=7031&am...
The Mercury News article:
Gay-rights activists elated by 'Brokeback'
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states...
Contact the USCCB Office for Film and Broadcasting:
Harry Forbes
(212) 644-1880
ofb@msn.com , commdept@usccb.org
Contact individual bishops
http://www.usccb.org/bishops.htm
Current USCCB Officers:
President - Bishop William S. Skylstad
Vice President - Cardinal Francis George, OMI
Treasurer - Archbishop James P. Keleher
Secretary - Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan
(see the LifeSiteNews.com story: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05121503.html )
While the glowing review remains, the USCCB office's rating for the film has been altered to the most severe rating - "O" for morally offensive from "L" which denotes that it is appropriate for a limited adult audience. Moreover, the author of the review of the film published on the USCCB's news service Catholic News Service, Harry Forbes, has removed his name from the article, which is now listed as published "By Catholic News Service".
See the new version here: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/movies/05mv682.htm
And the old version from Google's cache here: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:CBNmIUiHLl4J:http://www...
A LifeSiteNews.com reader contacted USCCB President Bishop William Skylstad who according to the LifeSiteNews.com reader said "Oh, the rating has to be changed to 'O'".
Catholic Conference Praised ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Banned in Utah
By Terry Vanderheyden
SALT LAKE CITY, January 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Brokeback Mountain, a homosexual ‘love’ story between two cowboys released in early December, has been banned by a Salt Lake City cinema. See an earlier LifeSiteNews.com review here: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05121503.html.
The film, originally slated to open Friday at a Salt Lake City suburb Megaplex owned by Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller, instead chose to delete the film from its venue. A sign over the ticket window stated, “There has been a change in booking and we will not be showing ‘Brokeback Mountain.’ We apologize for any inconvenience,” according to an AHN report.
Star of the film, Australian Heath Ledger, meanwhile, criticized the move as racist.
“I heard a while ago that West Virginia was going to ban it. But that’s a state that was lynching people only 25 years ago, so that’s to be expected,” Ledger said, according to Australia’s Herald Sun. “Personally, I don't think the movie is (controversial) but I think maybe the Mormons in Utah do. I think it’s hilarious and very immature of a society.”
“If two people are loving . . . I think we should be more concerned if two people express anger in love, than love,” he added.
Dr. Ted Baehr of MovieGuide describes the movie succinctly: “If you’re not looking at this through the eyes of someone caught up in the ‘love affair’ between these two men,” he wrote, “then the movie appears to be twisted, laughable, frustrating and boring Neo-Marxist homosexual propaganda.”
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a glowing movie review of the homosexual propaganda film.
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
US Bishops' Organization Gives Glowing Review of Homosexual-Sex Propaganda Film
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05121503.html
USCCB Changes Rating on Brokeback Mountain to Morally Offensive
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05121607.html
'Brokeback Mountain': Macho men in love
Homosexual Propaganda Film (Brokeback Mountain)
Somebody - anybody - please send a copy of this to:
Pope Benedict XVI,
The Vatican,
Vatican City
and ask him for urgent action against US "Bishops"!
But it's too easy to feel morally superior to slack bishops. Way too easy. And a sense of moral superiority is a tricky thing to get forgiven of: because you never feel you're in the wrong. Not compared to "them"!!
Lord have mercy.
OK, now, from the practical point of view: how can we prevent our loyal Catholic pew-sitter dollars from going to the USCCB?
Honestly, I can't see how good Catholics can stand the pack of hireling, craven, white-washed sepulchres at the head of the church.
I don't trust my diocese......I have to make all my judgements myself. We are on our own.
These guys seems to have missed the big important lesson they just got. The really big tuition they paid should have helped it sink in.
Somewhere on FR, the Catholic Review from the USCCB was posted, and had a rating of L for limited audience. That was later changed to O for offensive, even though when reading the review, I had the distinct feeling that the reviewer seemed to have enjoyed the movie a little too much.
As some other posters on that thread seemed to think, the reviewer seemed to be suffering from swish-itis extremus.
They're good at what they do, which is why they're so dangerous.
Does nobody notice that the "Christian activist" who comes against this movie is a former homosexual?