It's getting harder to watch television these days

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TCM is a good channel, and most of the things they show are films from the 20s through the 60s so its pretty safe. Now the films from the late 60s onward can get raunchy (sometimes very much so), but just use a programming guide and you can just skip over them.
 
I think you made a good decision. I would probably stop watching a show that glorified paganism or anything demonic. Your eyes are the windows to the soul!
 
Exactly!!

Example: Mad Men is not a Catholic show, and what happens on it defies Catholic teaching. I watch it because it’s fascinating when it juxtaposes the spiritual world with the material, or when it simply portrays the empty nihilism of the latter. We can learn a lot from the secular world in ways that can even enrich our faith . . . provided we keep an open mind.
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If it’s a dumb show, anyway, turn it off. If you can learn about Wicca in the context of your Catholic faith, and if the show is engaging enough, you’re probably OK to keep watching it. Only you know the context, and only your priest can determine if it puts you in a state of sin.

Also remember that, to state the obvious, we’re Catholic. For a brief spell, I was an Evangelical and taught to look for New Age/demonic influence under every last dust bunny. Living in that kind of paranoia is antithetical to our faith.
 
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TCM is a good channel, and most of the things they show are films from the 20s through the 60s so its pretty safe.
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Agreed. I have started cutting back on TV watching and am reading books more. But I do like:
“House” reruns. History channel, Fox Business, How the Universe Works, some NatGeo shows, “Ice Road Truckers”, “Wicked Tuna”, “The most dangerous catch”, “River Monsters”, “Artful Detective”.
 
Yeah I don’t watch many current TV shows or movies. My coworkers know better than to ask me if I’ve seen such and such show or movie. 🤣 Having said that, I have been enjoying watching “the saint” from the early 1960s with Roger Moore. It’s on Amazon prime.
 
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We have been watching a cable station called Insp that has Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Virginian and other westerns. We are enjoying them. The westerns were on when I was a kid, so most of them are new to us. Little house and the Waltons are interesting to see again as I was not a parent yet back then, and I am seeing the shows with different eyes now. Both are very well done and stand the test of time.
 
I cut the cable some time ago. I use youtube and netflix a lot. Youtube is great for religious and political programs you will not see on mainstream channels. I also watch a lot of foreign movies. A lot of Indian and Turkish, if you can deal with subtitles. The advantage there is that the Turkish movies are made the way our movies were made before the 80’s. while Bollywood is just fun. Most importantly, they are not offensive or vulgar.
 
Five people, wood floors and a dog…it’s a loosing battle but I try!
 
I’ve discovered the Rodeo Channel.
I don’t get bored watching equestrian events.
 
Question: Catholics when you’re offered/Invited to watch a tv show or movie that’s innapropriate how do you kindly turn down the invitation? What if the person asks why?☺️
 
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“Honestly? I don’t care much for that show. But I appreciate the invitation. Do you want to meet up and barbeque afterward?”

Don’t feel pressured to provide a reason. “Meh, I just can’t get into it.”
 
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