Forget sex. The media knows that attacking the Catholic Church, sells

Then it builds with more sensationalism in the press release itself: "In celebration of Gay Pride Month, Big Mama Capretta reveals the surprise truth about her identity. By day, Capretta is none other than Father Anthony, a proud practicing Catholic priest from Columbus, Ohio! Big Mama Capretta's new hit single 'Big Mama's House' is currently #25 on the U.S. Billboard Club Play dance chart."

Next, the Advocate, an "award-winning LGBT news site", basically copies down the press release and offers it as "news", contributing to the believability of the lie begun by the press release.

Finally, huge entertainment blogs take the Advocate "story" as "news" and run with it. My personal favorite? Perez Hilton who pipes: "If the church ever wants to point fingers again, they should start in their own backyard."

Well, sorry to rain on the parade, but this guy has been "out" since the 1980's, and the Catholic "Church" he is part of is actually the Columbus Community of Charity Independent Old Catholic Church, an "all-inclusive and welcoming congregation" .... yadda, yadda, you know the story (actually, oddly-enough, attendance at their "masses" are "open only to membership." So much for being inclusive).

In other words, Father Anthony is as much a Catholic priest as calling myself "DJ-AMP" makes me a musical artist.

Now, with these facts in hand, let's look at what is actually happening each step of the way in this story:

1) A PR firm realized the only way to promote this guy is to spread the claim he's actually a priest of the Catholic Church. This is false advertising because he is not a Catholic priest, and they knew that.

2) LGBT news sites happily continue the rumor because it plays into their stereotypes about priesthood, hypocrisy in the Church, etc. Never mind that it takes about five minutes of research to dismiss the lies spread by the press release. The Advocate is not even trying for journalistic integrity.

3) Celebrities like Perez Hilton who - idiot that he is - have a significant force in shaping today's pop culture, continue to perpetuate myths and lies about the Catholic Church. Remember this gem of a quote: "If the church ever wants to point fingers again, they should start in their own backyard." Try to imagine for a second if Perez Hilton had said that in reaction to a press release claiming a Hasidic Jew was a transvestite, etc.

Oh that's right, such things will never happen, because anti-Catholic prejudice is still acceptable, LGBT news sites aren't bound by the facts, and press firms have realized that when sex can't sell, attacking the Church will do.

1 posted on 06/19/2009 10:48:29 AM PDT by NYer

To: Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...

The media expect Catholics will turn the other cheek.

2 posted on 06/19/2009 10:49:33 AM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)

Since the media is willfully spreading a misinformation campaign, and there is only one Catholic Church, can they sue for libel?

3 posted on 06/19/2009 10:59:57 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)

The left is following a script written by the Nazi party in 1930’s Germany. The object is to remove God and his representatives on earth as an obstacle to their agenda. In Germany there was an orchestrated campaign in which the Church, the clergy, high profile laity, and Catholic schools and institutions were targeted with so-called Immorality Trials and accusations with such a persistence that the Church and its members were made synonymous with pedophilia, homosexualism, intolerance, and opulence at the expense of the people it serves. Once the voice of God is removed there is no other legitimate opposition to evil.

4 posted on 06/19/2009 11:05:05 AM PDT by Natural Law

The media expect Catholics will turn the other cheek.

As Catholics, we really must protest this kind of treatment with great passion and loudly.

Thank God for Donohue and the Catholic League. I think I will send them a big donation. They are always on the job.

5 posted on 06/19/2009 11:07:39 AM PDT by bdeaner (The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” (Is 5:20).

6 posted on 06/19/2009 11:12:24 AM PDT by bdeaner (The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))

While this is certainly sick, I hold that until the doors of ND have been closed, and those that support the killing of babies are publicly excommunicated (such as Kennedy, Pelosi, Kerry), the Catholic Church will continue to be an easy target and to some degree, deservingly so.

7 posted on 06/19/2009 11:31:04 AM PDT by Gator113 (I live in "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." Imam Obama told me so.)

The left is following a script written by the Nazi party in 1930’s Germany.

It failed there and it will fail again here. Stalin tried to rid his world of religion, as did PolPot and thy both failed.

8 posted on 06/19/2009 11:33:45 AM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)

To: a fool in paradise

there is only one Catholic Church, can they sue for libel?

Actually there are many Catholic Churches, of which only 22 are in full communion with Rome. The term 'Catholic' means universal and originated nearly 2000 years ago when it was first used by St. Ignatius in the city of Antioch. The word in not copyrighted.

9 posted on 06/19/2009 11:37:37 AM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)

What makes the Catholic Church an ‘easy’ target is the pope. It is the only organized faith in the world with a universal representative.

10 posted on 06/19/2009 11:39:17 AM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)

To: Natural Law; NYer; bdeaner

“”Once the voice of God is removed there is no other legitimate opposition to evil. “”

...And our decaying country and the rest of the world is well along this path. One would have to be spiritually blind not to see this

From the Words of the Blessed late Fulton Sheen...

“It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unaware of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because they have no standard outside of themselves by which to measure their times. If there is no fixed concept of justice, how shall men know it is violated? Only those who live by faith really know what is happening in the world; the great masses without faith are unconscious of the destructive processes going on, because they have lost the vision of the heights from which they have fallen.-Bishop Fulton Sheen

11 posted on 06/19/2009 11:45:01 AM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))

"It failed there and it will fail again here."

Do not diminish their efforts or the damage that will be done before the population wakes up to what is happening. Knowing what they are going to do will make us far better able to blunt it.

12 posted on 06/19/2009 11:47:08 AM PDT by Natural Law

Caprattea’s website is telling:

“Attendance [at Mass] is open only to membership”

and:

“Not withholding of the Sacraments to individuals who choose to exercise one’s civil right to birth control, divorce, or abortion. Abortion is strongly discouraged.

“Our church recognizes equally both women and men serving as valid Catholic deacons, priests, and bishops in apostolic succession. Clergy may be single or married. Celibacy in not mandatory amongst clergy.

“We maintain the Seven Sacraments of Baptism, Penance, Holy Eucharist, Confirmation, Marriage, Holy Orders, and Annointing of the Sick. The Sacrament of Marriage is offered to both same and opposite sex couples.”

Peachy.

13 posted on 06/19/2009 12:18:33 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)

A word about the “old Catholic Church” in America.

Friend of mine, an ex-catholic, is now an Old Catholic Church “bishop”, a decent individual, but still an apostate and heretic at that.

Even he tells me personally that, the qualification of some of the Old Catholic priests is, on the scale of 1 to 10, is in the negative. That goes to show how much confidence they have in their own people.

The OC church this article features, was “established” in 1999.

There you have it.

14 posted on 06/19/2009 2:34:25 PM PDT by m4629 (politically incorrect, and proud of it)

Thank you! for adding that information. So many people are blindsided by the word “catholic”.

15 posted on 06/19/2009 4:09:01 PM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)

LOL at this headline.

One of the reaons the sheeple don’t listen to Pope Benedict! These two threads almost need to be cross-referenced. LOL!

16 posted on 06/19/2009 11:42:11 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)

The media expect Catholics will turn the other cheek...

...since so many Catholics accepted without much protest, the deliberate desacralization of their liturgy and the ham handed repression of the TLM so that maybe Protestants could not successfully militate against us as cultists, any current turning of the other cheek should hardly shock us...

17 posted on 06/21/2009 8:08:29 AM PDT by IrishBrigade

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