Viva Cristo Rey on
Hollywood Boulevard
On November 14, Hollywood
Boulevard was home to an out-of-character event when 125
Catholics assembled at Galaxy Theaters for a rally of peaceful
protest and reparation hosted by the American TFP's America
Needs Fatima campaign.
The protesters assembled to voice
their opposition to the American debut of the blasphemous
film, The Crime of Fr. Amaro. The film has offensive
scenes, such as one in which a priest has relations with
a 16 year-old girl under a mantle of Our Lady of Guadalupe
and another in which an ally cat eats a consecrated Host
that has been spat on the floor.
During the rally, participants sang
pious songs and America Needs Fatima director, Mr. Robert
Ritchie led the program. The film's Mexican stars found
an unexpected reception as many of the Hispanic attendees
raised the heroic cry immortalized by the Mexican Cristeros,
"Viva Cristo Rey! (Long Live Christ the King!)".1
Others shouted, "shame" as the stars entered.
The high point of the protest was
the praying of the rosary of reparation in Spanish and English.
"I find it especially disconcerting that the Blessed
Virgin has again come under attack," said Mr. Ritchie.
"As time goes on, she is increasingly becoming the
object of scorn and hatred."
The protest was the part of a month-long
campaign in which America Needs Fatima sent out nearly 80,000
protest postcards for its members to sign and send to Samuel
Goldwyn Films, the movie's American distributor. Similar
protests are planned for other theaters. Postcards were
also directed to The Los Angeles Times and Fox News,
urging them to give fair and extensive coverage of the movie's
blatant anti-Catholic bias.
"This campaign and subsequent
protest has served two very important purposes," Mr.
Ritchie explained. "First of all, it has made reparation
to Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, which is most important,
but it also sent a message to the American film industry
that if you are going to promote blasphemous films, you
are going to have to deal with faithful Catholics who are
not afraid to stand up and say, 'No!'"
It is not too late to protest
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Click
here to print a protest postcard that you can
send to the American distributor. (You will need Adobe's
Acrobat Reader, a free download available by clicking
here. |
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Click
here to send a letter to your local newspaper
asking them to report on this film in an objective and
fair way. |
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