Valerie Jarrett may be a prominent woman, but she is not exactly in the same class with Mother Teresa. When the saintly nun died in 1997, ABC anchor Peter Jennings allowed anti-Catholic bigot Christopher Hitchens to rant and rave against Mother Teresa at her funeral Mass. That it took place during the consecration of the Host made it all the more offensive.
In 1996 and 1997, ABC launched “Nothing Sacred,” a drama series about a radical Catholic priest who excoriated the Church for its teachings on sexuality. He engaged in violence in and out of the church, and was surrounded by Buddha-worshipping nuns and dysfunctional priests. ABC kept the show alive to spite our protest, moving it around to different days and times, but finally succumbed to our pressure. It would never do a show about a discordant rabbi or imam.
On April 7, 1998, ABC debuted “That’s Life,” a show that mocked Christ’s crucifixion, the Host, transubstantiation, Holy Water, Catholic prayers, MidnightMass, salvation, Catholic rituals, the Vatican, the New Testament, the Stations of the Cross, Confession, nuns, priests, and practicing lay Catholic men and women. This was intentionally aired during Holy Week.
In 2002, ABC presented “Miracles,” a show about a man who studies for the priesthood and leaves before taking his vows. He engages in a personal search for God but concludes that the Church is “extraneous and even a hurdle in the spiritual quest.” He parts company with the Church hierarchy because “he feels its leaders do not really believe in miracles.”
In 2005, ABC treated viewers to a segment, “On the Trail of Pope Joan,” about a pope that never existed. Earlier in the year, “20/20” correspondent Elizabeth Vargas told viewers that the resurrection of Jesus was either “physical, metaphysical, or simply a hallucination—the dreams of grieving followers.”
No show on ABC has been more relentlessly bigoted than “The View,” co-hosted and co-produced by Barbara Walters for many years. She allowed Joy Behar, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and Whoopi Goldberg to make the most vicious and sweeping comments about priests, the pope, the sacraments, and Catholic rituals. Never once did she find fault with their bigotry. If anything, she led them on, provoking even more vitriol.
More recently, ABC gave viewers “The Real O’Neals,” a cruel caricature of an Irish Catholic family based on the life of one of its producers, Dan Savage. He is an obscene anti-Catholic bigot. We fought it and eventually it crashed.
Family shows are big at ABC. Gays love “Modern Family,” Jews love “The Goldbergs,” Asians love “Fresh Off the Boat,” and African Americans love “Black-ish.” And what do Catholics get? “The Real O’Neals.”
Looks like they can’t get enough of Irish Catholic families at ABC. This fall viewers will be treated to “The Kids Are Alright,” a show about a “traditional Irish-Catholic family” of working-class stock. They live like animals: ten people sharing three bedrooms and one bathroom. The oldest son enters a seminary but quits so he can “save the world.” ABC boasts that “the times are changing and this family will never be the same.” They will make sure of that.
ht/ moe tom
Exposing the hypocrites.
Roseanne Barr should have never apologized, never explained.
Valerie Jarrett is a traitor. A slumlord. A grifter. A liar. A thief.
And she has definite simian characteristics and a fat ass.
izlamo delenda est …
American Conservative Catholicism is ONE of the only buffers against the left…left.
This is on their list…of removals.
Paging St’s Peter or Paul…
F**k Valerie Jarrett, her disgusting man-child Barack Odumbo, the Muslim Brotherhood, and all the other corrupt hypocritic racists on the left too numerous to mention.
Though not Roman Catholic in flavour, I have found The Middle to be one of the best clean, God fearing (sometimes) family on TV. Their portrayal of a financially struggling family who believes in God is refreshing.
There was a particular episode earlier this year (their last year) where the son, Axl is home from college and doubts God and church, etc. His mom, Patricia Heaton, doesn’t know what to do, but eventually tells him she believes, because there must be something better than this life (and this was not a poor me kind of talk, either). Axl tells his mom he is going to go to Christmas Eve service after all. It was just a perfectly beautiful scene and I am sure spoke to many parents of older teens and young adults who have stopped attending church.
So, ABC certainly has their moral problems, but someone, somewhere let this wonderful show run its course.
ABC Anything But Christianity
Graceia- I’ve seen that show. I think it was down to earth because it was Patricia Heaton’s show. She pro-life, etc. It was a rip-off of Malcolm in the Middle, but I preferred ‘The middle” much more. Mom and dad aren’t always yelling and neither of them were idiots. lol.
The stupidly and arrogantly Godless are marching to the cliff and I for one would be happy to give them the last kick in the ass to send them on their way.
Many thanks BFH for this post. Exposing hypocracy is a noble cause.
ValJar is the spawn of either Yoda or Jabba the Hut and the Ayatollah Khomeini and she lives her life to help herself.
Mother Teresa gave her life to help the poor, and to the folks at ABC that’s not enough.
@ghost of col j glover May 30, 2018 at 9:54 pm
Overall, I do like the RCC, although I’m not catholic. It is a bulwark against the left. Love its pro-life stance, which all religions should have, but do not like its support of illegals from south of the border. It has also tried to cover up some scandals, which is also bad stuff. But all things considered, I have positive feelings about it. If I was a member, I would be a cafeteria catholic, I suppose.
Sadly I can’t get my shorts in a wad over anyone attacking the “Catlickers.”
They currently are torching their own cafeteria as referred to above…
From an ex-seminarian…
@ Tim – yes this whole thing of filling pews and filling the ‘baskets’ things can be un-nerving.
I know cafeteria Cat-licks as well. I am one.
Picking and choosing in life IS kinda difficult.
My idea of Cafeteria Catholicism? EFF the Pope.
@ Anymouse – It’s about FAITH.
It’s the hypocracy of ABC, Disney, Bob Iger, Chening Dungey, Joy Reed etc that’s on the table here. Not Catholicism or Christianity, warts and all. Check out Tucker Carlson above. PS I could give a flying phuck about Rosanne Barr. Never saw a show.
@ Tim – apologies, I don’t watch these shows or pundits.
Watched RB original and made no attempt to watch the new one…Ever since that anthem moment why would I?
Allow me to point out the glaring double-standard that is Disney when they (ABC) will fire someone like Barr, yet turn around and hire a hate-filled, mentally unstable, unbelievably offensive, unhinged wing-nut like Keith Olbermann. This guy is so off the wall it´s scary. Scary to the point that he should be in a damn straight jacket!
Some of his examples are here (very offensive), yet evidently Disney thinks nothing whatsoever of this kind of behavior. Hiring him is simply an endorsement of radical hatred! Something to think about when they try to acquire FOX!
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/disney-fires-roseanne-for-one-offensive-tweet-promotes-keith-olbermann-after-daily-barrage-of-vulgar-tweets/
Has anyone else noticed that the outrage is about the raycism(!) and monkey appearance slur but crickets about the Muslim Brotherhood part?
Guessing the leftists want to let that part disappear in the noise, SQUIRREL!, of their fussing.
But the hate at the White House Correspondents Dinner didn’t cost anybody their job. In fact it boosted a career.