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Ignatius stops sale of Charlotte Church works after singer's TV pilot
http://www.catholic.org/ ^ | 8 14 06 | Simon Caldwell

Posted on 08/14/2006 12:07:57 AM PDT by freepatriot32

LONDON - The U.S. publishing company Ignatius Press has refused to sell any works by Welsh singer Charlotte Church after she called German-born Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi and mocked the Catholic Church.

The directors of Ignatius Press said they were offended when the Welsh singer mocked the Catholic Church in the pilot of a proposed eight-part television chat show.

Church, dubbed the "Voice of an Angel" before she turned her talents to popular music, also dressed up as a nun and pretended to hallucinate while eating "communion" wafers imprinted with smiling faces signifying the drug Ecstasy.

She smashed open a statue of the Virgin Mary to reveal a can of hard cider inside, said she worshipped "St. Fortified Wine," and stuck chewing gum on a statue of the child Jesus.

Ignatius Press announced that Church's products have been withdrawn from its Web site and catalogue.

"It is with regret that we do this," the company said in a statement to its customers on its Web site, www.ignatius.com.

"Miss Church possesses a great gift from God, and in the past she has used her talent often to offer praise and glory to Our Lord," the statement said.

"We cannot stand by a young woman who uses her stature in the media to mock the Eucharist, slander the Holy Father, and denigrate the vows of religious women," it continued.

"Therefore, our catalogues and Web site will immediately withdraw all compact discs, cassette tapes, DVDs and VHS tapes that feature Miss Church. Please join us in praying for this troubled young woman," the statement added.

Church declined to comment.

Church, 20, was raised a Catholic and sang for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican at the age of 12.

The pilot for "The All New Charlotte Church Show" was filmed before a live studio audience July 12.

Ignatius Press was founded by Father Joseph Fessio, a California Jesuit who studied under the future Pope Benedict at the University of Regensburg in Germany in the 1970s and who continues to be a close friend.

Pope Benedict, the son of a German policeman opposed to Nazism, was forced into the Hitler Youth movement as a child, and during World War II he served briefly in an anti-aircraft battalion


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To: freepatriot32

She must have been reading the Dixie Chicks playbook on how to destroy her own career.


41 posted on 08/14/2006 4:11:56 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

As you can see by post 35 she has been singing for food. :)


42 posted on 08/14/2006 4:14:44 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Rastus

And, in fairness, Sinead O'Connor wasn't singing for the pope or selling her wares via religious marketers. This girl don't know which side her bread is buttered on.


44 posted on 08/14/2006 4:37:45 AM PDT by jocon307 (The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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To: freepatriot32

Unfortunately, much of the entertainment industry believes tasteless, vulgar slander is lighthearted irreverent humor. Maybe it is in their alternate universe.

I suspect that were she the object of similar "satirical" assaults, we'd be hearing a whole lot of whining from her and her adoring fans.


46 posted on 08/14/2006 4:50:08 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s...you weren't really there.)
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To: freepatriot32

""Miss Church possesses a great gift from God, and in the past she has used her talent often to offer praise and glory to Our Lord," the statement said."

She still does, only now she's also an iconoclast, like Gideon (Judges 6:25).

iconoclast |??kän??klast| noun 1 a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions. 2 a destroyer of images used in religious worship, in particular • historical a supporter of the 8th- and 9th-century movement in the Byzantine Church that sought to abolish the veneration of icons and other religious images. • historical a Puritan of the 16th or 17th century.

Statues in churches are an abomination.


47 posted on 08/14/2006 4:51:24 AM PDT by RoadTest (Secure our borders, not our marines.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Charlotte Church has been doing things to get rid of her old 'goody two shoes' image for the last 2 years. She is always in the Brit press, looking piddled or some such.

She wants to make it in MTV video/music. She wants to say look 'I'm all grown up'.

Of course she is still young and vulnerable.... she hasn't had a childhood in the way most of us have. Maybe it will take her longer to mature. I'm just trying to think the best.... I'm not sure I really believe it myself.
48 posted on 08/14/2006 4:52:02 AM PDT by vimto (Blighty Awaken!)
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To: RoadTest

...Stautes in churches are an abomination...

And do you feel likewise about all things artistic involving religion...in other words, is Michalangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel an abomination as well???

Good luck tilting at windmills, Don Quixote...


49 posted on 08/14/2006 5:11:04 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: bd476
Miss Jenkins sang the Welsh National Anthem "Hen wlad fy nhadau" (Land of My Fathers)...

Are you sure it isn't "Klaatu Barada Nikto"? :)

50 posted on 08/14/2006 5:31:44 AM PDT by JRios1968 (This kid knows how to wallop a baseball!!!!!!)
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To: freepatriot32

Sounds like she is trying to be the new Madonna, looking for ways to blaspheme the church.


51 posted on 08/14/2006 5:33:28 AM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: freepatriot32
As we say down South, "As popular as a fart in church."
52 posted on 08/14/2006 5:34:24 AM PDT by oyez (The way to punish a providence is to allow it to be governed by philosophers. --Frederick the Great)
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To: Rastus
By the way, will the MSM recoil with horror from this as they did from Muhammed cartoons and a drunken Mel Gibson?

Oh, you know the answer to that question.

53 posted on 08/14/2006 5:35:39 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: RoadTest
Statues in churches are an abomination.

Not necessarily. Statues have gotten a bad rap from people who haven't been in the Catholic church or just need another reason the criticize Catholics for worshiping idols or what ever. Statutes are no different than a picture of Moses parting the Red Sea or an image of Christ on a stained glass window.

54 posted on 08/14/2006 5:52:53 AM PDT by oyez (The way to punish a providence is to allow it to be governed by philosophers. --Frederick the Great)
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To: MonroeDNA
Most of us Recovering Catholics DO have a grudge, and for good reason.

Oh? Explain.

55 posted on 08/14/2006 5:59:46 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Love is the fusion of two souls in one in order to bring about mutual perfection." -S. Terese Andes)
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To: IrishBrigade

"Good luck tilting at windmills, Don Quixote..."

Hey - it's all gonna come out in the wash!


56 posted on 08/14/2006 6:01:38 AM PDT by RoadTest (Secure our borders, not our marines.)
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To: oyez

"Statutes are no different than a picture of Moses parting the Red Sea or an image of Christ on a stained glass window." - -

- - until you see someone kneel down and pray to it.


57 posted on 08/14/2006 6:02:49 AM PDT by RoadTest (Secure our borders, not our marines.)
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To: JRios1968
Y Ddraig Goch ddyry gychwyn


Translation: The Red Dragon will show the way (slogan often accompanying the Red Dragon, symbol of Wales) Some Welsh Phrases
Hen wlad fy nhadau

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;
Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr tra mâd,
Tros ryddid gollasant eu gwaed.

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad.
Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau,
O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.

Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd
Pob dyffryn, pob clogwyn, i’m golwg sydd hardd
Trwy deimlad gwladgarol, mor swynol yw si
Ei nentydd, afonydd, i mi

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad.
Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau,
O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.

Os triesiodd y gelyn fy ngwlad dan ei droed
Mae hen iaith y Gymry mor fyw ag erioed
Ni luddiwyd yr awen gan erchyll law brad
Na thelyn bersieniol fy ngwlad

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad.
Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau,
O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.

See Catherine Jenkins singing the Welsh National Anthem


58 posted on 08/14/2006 6:13:17 AM PDT by bd476
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To: IrishBrigade

God hated idol worship in the Old Testament. Do you think He's changed His mind and now likes them?


59 posted on 08/14/2006 6:20:22 AM PDT by RoadTest (Secure our borders, not our marines.)
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To: freepatriot32

She needs to meet up with the Dixie Chicks, they are cut from the same cloth...the stupid bolt.


60 posted on 08/14/2006 6:27:41 AM PDT by pepperdog
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