Anyone else feel misrepresented by Catholics in TV?

[Christianus_Dei]

This lady went to confess her sins, while the detectives listened in through her Cross necklace (called a Crucifix, despite the fact our Crucifed Lord was not present on it) that doubled as a wire.

Wait… aren’t there laws in place that state that evidence gained in confession isn’t valid?..

 

[peacoat]

Everybody loves Raymond is the worst example of CINO in tv.

Actually, it’s pretty much dead on example of CINO. It represents the truth. I fail to see how that is bad.

Wait… aren’t there laws in place that state that evidence gained in confession isn’t valid?..

I believe in the TV show the confession wasn’t originally part of the plan by the officesrs…the woman went in and did it on her own. Plus, it wasn’t used to convict of any crime.

 

[LP4H]

Wait… aren’t there laws in place that state that evidence gained in confession isn’t valid?..

They had the wire on her for another reason, but she still had it on while in the confessional. They weren’t trying to get any evidence on her, they already knew she was a prostitute (they were keeping tabs on her because she was the only one a serial killer would contact). It even showed the detectives sitting in the car casually listening in ! It was that lack of respect that really got me; I mean, there was no real reason they had to be listening to her confession.

 

[october_baby]

Actually, it’s pretty much dead on example of CINO. It represents the truth. I fail to see how that is bad.

I believe in the TV show the confession wasn’t originally part of the plan by the officesrs…the woman went in and did it on her own. Plus, it wasn’t used to convict of any crime.

my point was there were no examples of faithful catholics, anybody who watched this
would get the idea ALL catholics were like that. That’s what I find objectionable.

 

[drfye]

Just a comment, while film can be just as bad, there are some decent films with good or returning Catholics in film. The Way was an excellent film, and though it was kind of a scary film, I thought The Rite with Anthony Hopkins did a pretty good job not just covering exorcisms, but showed the struggles of the young priest in the film pretty well and didn’t seem to be heretical from what I saw. I’m sure there are others that are fairly recent. Any help?

I thought that the movie " keeping the faith " a romantic comedy with Ben Stiller and Edward Norton was pretty good, when they were doing the intro and started talking about modernizing the church and new age style themes my first reaction was "oh it’s going to be that type of movie " but it actually was, I thought, a decent and humourous film and a nice change of pace then , what seems to be, the usual abuse or tragedy film that dipicts religious people.

 

[JRKH]

IMHO - the reason that we are so sensitive to Catholic portrayals today is because the Church is under attack and any “flawed” portrayal is seen as helping in that attack.

Many years ago, when the Church was generally respected in society, portrayals of Catholics on film or TV would be seen for what they were…the portrayal of a given individual (or family) who was Catholic…not an attempt to portray all Catholics in some given light either good or bad.

Peace
James

 

[777rak]

Hey this just came to me:

As we all know Catholicism is badly portrayed in tv shows movies etc… however I just came upon a positive note while watching the Christmas episode of Royal Pains:

It was the episode where Evan marries Paige.

Anyhow Evans dad signs up for an online (10 min) certificate that enables makes it legal to marry.

I don’t know ( this might sound strange/ weird thinking) but in my opinion this event on the episode ( which anyone can do today) proves how great Catholicism is being only a Priest ( who as we all know receive Apostolic training, powers etc…) can marry people and that it should take more training and time to have the power to marry some one, as opposed to just 10 min.

Sorry if this weird not correct thinking. I just had to share what I experienced,

Thanks for reading

777rak

 

[KevinAK]

Speaking of The Simpsons, the Mayor of Springfield is a Catholic, and he portrayed as a philandering womanizer. But…a few years back, The Simpsons did a wonderful episode where Homer and Bart were in RCIA to become Catholics. I felt that the show did a great job of portraying Catholics (Liam Neeson was the priest), and it did a nice job of showing the prejudice by some Protestants (e.g., Marge and Rev. Lovejoy) against Catholics. I especially loved the part about “Catholic heaven” and “Protestant heaven”–so funny!

Never realized Mayor Quimby on The Simpsons was Catholic.

As for him being a philandering womanizer – I got the impression that he was a parody of the Kennedys. I don’t think he is meant to knock Catholicism.

 

[Arturo_Ortiz]

The portrayal of Catholics and Christians in the movie King Arthur

I also just plain hate how so called Catholics act on television sometimes - The Jersey Shore

 

[Minenedanielito]

Yes and very much so. I’m sick and tired of them representing priests as pedophiles or cardinals/bishops as being corrupt. I wish that just once hey would show all the good work they do.

 

[empther]

I always feel so frustrated. The networks try to represent Catholics in their main characters, but to make them popular characters, they always make them liberal, towards at least one issue. Usually sex before marriage. I just can’t stand it. Christians always write themselves as Mary-Sues, and the media either shows us as bigots or “thinking for ourselves,” as it were. I’m tired of it. Someday I hope to be able to do something about it. I have a hard enough time identifiying with characters as it is, I don’t need to be identifiying with either a perfect little Sue or an implied neo-nazi. Even if the second X-Men film, the writers manage to turn the most religious character, who was supposed to be a prankster, into a perfectly perfect in every way Sue.

Who else is annoyed by this?

I am. And I did something about it.
I wrote: Empress Theresa.

Theresa is a good 18 year old Catholic girl who accomplishes astounding feats without compromising Catholic morals.
She’s not necessarily a Saint, although the story does not note her sins if any, but she does God’s will, without thinking about it as God’s will maybe, but nevertheless God’s will.
The Isreali Prime Minister says, “Theresa is the right hand of God.”