Posted on 05/25/2005 4:57:31 PM PDT by wagglebee
When shareholders of media conglomerate Viacom show up for their annual meeting tomorrow, they'll face the wrath of Catholic League President Dr. William Donahue over a shocking Showtime episode that slandered the late Mother Teresa and her order of nuns in the vilest of terms.
According to Donahue, who plans a press conference in front of the hotel in New York City where the Viacom meeting is being held, an episode of Showtime's Penn and Teller show "Holier Than Thou” was a "Nazi-like assault on Catholicism, and on the person the show calls "Mother F***ing Teresa.” Showtime is owned by Viacom.
Stormed Donahue, "In the 12 years that I have been president of the Catholic League, I have never witnessed a more vicious attack on Catholicism than what appeared this week on the Showtime program, ‘Penn and Teller.’ The episode, ‘Holier Than Thou,’ was a frontal assault on Mother Teresa and her order of nuns, Missionaries of Charity (as well as Gandhi and the Dali Lama).
"Like most Americans, I like parodies and have no problem, per se, with irreverent humor. But when humor becomes insult, that is a different story. And that is what happens here: comedy quickly morphs to vitriol. Indeed, as the show progresses, the level of anger becomes palpable and the degree of distortion becomes mindboggling. This is no comedy—it is Nazi propaganda right out of the Leni Riefenstahl school of filmmaking.
"The Mother Teresa that the world has come to love and revere is made to look like a cruel, exploitative, self-serving nun who ripped off the poor. We are told that Mother Teresa intentionally let the poor suffer, providing neither beds nor bathroom facilities. ‘She had the f***ing coin and pissed it away on nunneries,’ says Penn. As for the nuns who worked with Mother Teresa, they are referred to as ‘f***ing c***s.’
"It does not bother me when they call me ‘Catholic Boy’ on the show (though the term ‘Jew Boy’ would never cross their lips), nor does it concern me when they talk about ‘f**ers like Bill Donohue [who] only see good in her.’ But when they mock the Catholic Church’s teaching on the meaning of suffering, and when they say of the poor that ‘They had to suffer so that Mother F***ing Teresa could be enlightened,’ then they are behaving like monsters.
"We will mail a tape of select portions of this broadcast to many interested parties, including the bishops. And we will hold a press conference tomorrow outside the hotel where Viacom is holding its annual stockholders meeting. They haven’t heard the end of this yet.”
Donohue, who will be joined by some Catholic League staff members, said he will answer any questions following a few remarks. He promised that copies the Catholic League news release on this subject, "Mother F***ing Teresa—Courtesy of Viacom,” will be distributed to Viacom shareholders as they enter the hotel.
Why don't you get the hell out of here
Why is your opinion of her important?
Laura you are a young dumbass. Grow up.
Perhaps it is your age, but you show a remarkable lack of maturity in this area. Perhaps you should confine yourself to topics you actually know something about. The secular humanism that Christopher Hitchens espouses is nothing more than an intellectual justification for the culture of death and anti-Christianity movement, it's goal is worldwide socialism.
She's young and thinks she knows the world at what? 18? Please.
Lenin has a team of people who spend hours every week keeping his body preserved.
Blessed Jacinta of Fatima fame (who's not a saint yet) died of influenza in 1920 and as a result she was buried in quicklime to speed up the decomposition. She is incorrupt, and I would call that a miracle.
I'm not as charitable as you, I'm afraid. Eighteen is old enough to know better than that.
You've thrown this out a lot now... I'm curious as to your source, other than Christopher Hitchens.
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TechnoMiricle, never done before, extra points.
Lenin is a mummy entombed in a glass case, I fail to see how Lenin is germain to this topic in any way.
Everything you state against Mother Theresa is taken from Christopher Hitchen's "Hell's Angel" movie slandering Mother Theresa. (His first choice for the title was Sacred Cow)
Im surprised that you didnt assert Hitchen's allegations that Mother Theresa loved “Papa Doc” Duvalier of Haiti.
His vituperous views are biased and his hatred of Mother Theresa and Christianity is well known.
ROFL.
Ahhh! Alright Mother Theresa was a great person. She's a better person than me! Boy did I ever get myself into one. It's just that people think she should be made into an actual Saint and the woman while a humanitarian never ever performed any miracles or miraculouse healings. BUT SHE DID USE MEDICINE! And okay, so she took in stolen money and cuddled up to a few dicators she still helped poor dying people. SORRY!
She is parroting a man named Christopher Hitchens, a secular humanist who has made it his mission to discredit the memory of Mother Teresa.
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/hitchens_16_4.html
""Okay so in your opinion who are examples of well known people who are more worthwhile and saintly than Mother Theresa ?""
Christian people? And Saintly as in more religiouse or good doing or should be beautified and made an actual Saint. More specific. And I'd like to hear your thoughts on Mother Theresa.
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Did I say only Christian ?
I said whom do you think has done worthier good deeds than Mother Theresa ?
I don't care what religion they might be. Or if they're non-religious.
Don't be a liberal. Just issue an apology without including little untrue digs.
You shouldn't believe everything Christopher Hitchens whispers in your ear while he's . . . . oh, nevermind.
I'm not getting banned for the likes of you.
i forgot who died at the same time as Mother Theresa and the media all but ignored her death.
Thank you for the ping, Ski, but now I am SICK as well. Unbelievable.
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