Catholics call out Apple for shows Eucharistic…
A Catholic group is asking out Apple CEO Tim Cook and Apple TV+ in a letter demanding an apology and removing of a “Eucharistic desecration” scene in one of its shows.
“As the nation’s largest lay Catholic advocacy organization, we write to express our concern about a blasphemous anti-Catholic scene in the Apple TV+ show, Your Friends and Neighbors,” CatholicVote stated in a Monday letter obtained solely by Fox News Digital.
“Episode 6 of the series depicts two characters breaking into a Catholic church,” the letter, signed by Josh Mercer, vice president of CatholicVote, reads. “The male character steals Eucharistic hosts from the tabernacle, which they eat as a snack. The man flippantly remarks about how they are eating the Body of Christ. The man feeds a host to the female character and feigns blessing her. Then they begin engaging in romantic activity in the pews before the pastor walks in, and they flee the church.”
Mercer, who is also requesting a assembly with Cook to talk about how the company can promote “true diversity and tolerance,” known as the scene “sacrilegious,” and requested Cook if he could be tolerant of related content material mocking the Islamic or Jewish religion. CatholicVote’s web site known as it a “shocking depiction of Eucharistic desecration.”
“As Catholics, we have believed for 2,000 years that the Eucharist is not simply a piece of bread,” Mercer wrote. “It is the body, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ. The practice of taking communion was instituted by Christ himself at the Last Supper. Receiving the Eucharist at Mass is, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church puts it, ‘the source and summit of the Christian life.’”
Catholic group CatholicVote known as out Apple CEO Tim Cook and Apple TV+, demanding an apology and removing of a “Eucharistic desecration” scene in one of its shows. EPA
He also highlighted a assertion on Apple’s web site, which seems to worth supporting those from numerous walks of life, stating, “At Apple, we create a culture … with a North Star of dignity, respect, and opportunity for everyone. Because we’re not all the same. And that remains one of our greatest strengths.”
Mercer also pointed to a 2015 op-ed from Cook where he opposed discrimination against those who present marriage licenses to same-sex {couples}.
Jon Hamm in “Your Friends and Neighbors.” Apple
“The male character steals Eucharistic hosts from the tabernacle, which they eat as a snack,” the letter, signed by Josh Mercer, vice president of CatholicVote, says, calling the scene “sacrilegious.” @CatholicVote/Facebook
CatholicVote’s web site known as the scene a “shocking depiction of Eucharistic desecration.” @CatholicVote/Facebook
Cook wrote that, “I have great reverence for religious freedom… Apple is open. Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love.”
CatholicVote has also launched a petition with 169,596 signatures and counting asking signers to inform Apple management that they “won’t stand for blasphemy.”
“Apple’s shameless depiction of blatant sacrilege inside a Catholic Church is a direct attack on what Catholics hold most dear,” Mercer informed Fox News Digital in a assertion.
“We solemnly believe that the Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ; this fundamental truth is the source and summit of our Catholic Faith,” he added. “We cannot stand by while Christ and His Church are casually mocked in the name of ‘entertainment.’ We call on Catholics to join us in demanding that Apple take down the blasphemous episode and issue an apology. We await Apple’s response to our letter and hope it makes amends for its offensive actions.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Cook and Apple for remark, but didn’t immediately obtain a response.
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