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ACTION ITEM!
ABC Special: Fiction that Offends
The BBC News reports that ABC reporter
Elizabeth Vargas concedes her network’s one-hour “exploration”
of whether Jesus Christ had a wife is going to offend people.
However, this will not stop the November 3 screening.
The American Society for the Defense
of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and its American Needs
Fatima campaign want ABC to know that such attacks on the
Faith and the person of Our Lord Jesus Christ are considered
insulting and blasphemous. The TFP is organizing demonstrations
in front of ABC offices in New York and Burbank and mounting
a weeklong e-mail protest.
The ABC program, "Jesus, Mary
and DaVinci," is partially based on the best-selling
novel, The DaVinci Code, which fantasizes that St.
Mary Magdalene was married to Christ and fled Jerusalem with
His child following His crucifixion.
The pseudo-intellectual program adds
further injury by dressing up its story with commentary from
liberal theologians like Richard McBrien. Elizabeth Vargas
admitted that ABC found no proof as to whether Jesus had a
wife or not.
In Burbank, the American TFP and its
America Needs Fatima campaign staged a lunch hour protest
in front of ABC-Disney studios. Some members drove more than
two hours to manifest reparation to Our Lord and indignation
at ABC’s program.
American TFP vice president, Thomas
McKenna, led prayers, hymns and addressed the people. Large
banners reading “Blasphemy Provokes God” or “Stop
Catholic Bashing” were displayed for cars to see as they
passed. A similar demonstration took place in front of ABC
offices in New York City.
“The special like the book is
fiction,” said America Needs Fatima director Robert Ritchie.
“I don’t understand how ABC can air such preposterous
theories that fly in the face of Catholic teaching and tradition,
and have zero historical evidence. Vargas is reported to have
said the program will offend. It will!”
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