While reading your email message, Bro.Ed, I received the following text message passed on by a friend and supposedly from a Fr. B.A. Ong:
"D show XXX of Abs Cbn aired an exhibit in CCP Pasay. An image of Jesus Christ... sacrilegiously vulgarized. A certain MEDIO CRUZ, a devil atheist artist did this. CCP management with head appointed by PNoy allowed this to be shown. We are catholics. Please pray for forgiveness of this most blasphemous act. Please pass so others may know this kind of devil now exists in our society."
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Ed Tirona <ejttirona@gmail.com> wrote:
ANOTHER ABS-CBN AFFRONT AGAINST THE CHURCH!
In the 6:30 pm ABS-CBN Radyo Patrol news tonight (July 22) they featured a supposed artist (missed the name of the bloke who looks more like a gender aberrant) who took the liberty of scandalizing the image of Christ by disfiguring its face and sacrilegiously vulgarizing it with obscenities ostensibly as an art expression. This is another affront to us Catholics coming in the wake of this station leading in church bashing with their invented "Pajero" tag which they feasted on in ridiculing our Bishops for two weeks. Has ABS-CBN given up its sense of decency in being a leading butcher of this administration against the Catholic Church? (would Maria Ressa allow such a despicable act if she were still with this station)?
I call upon the militant Church organizations to denounce this obvious attempt of ABS-CBN to discredit our Church and what we Catholics believe in. Let us denounce this station for its total lack of sensitivity and professionalism. I wonder if the ABS-CBN management will have the guts to do the same to the Muslims. The lay faithful must not allow ABS-CBN to get away with malicious reporting against the Catholic faith!
- Bro. Ed Tirona, Council of the Laity of the Philippines
