1. Nursing home residents, nearing the
end of their twilight years, and having few clear-minded hours in their
remaining days, have their minds and eyes “glued” to the large screen in the
lobbies, or individual sets in rooms. Robbing the final moments of prayer,
rosaries and contemplation of God, these hours are filled with spiritually
harmful, pagan fantasies.
2. A priest alone in his rectory late
on Saturday night, watching hours of late-night “garbage” or videos. His
breviary is not prayed and rosaries long ago discontinued. His “second self”
is submerged in materialistic, immoral temptations which include sex scenes
about unfaithful priests and nuns.
3. Small children, whose first light
of reason is dawning, have their first impressions of life filled with hour
after hour of misinformation and the unreal life of television.
4. Poor farmer, with a huge dish
southwest of his dilapidated house; the most up-to-date TV and VCR equipment
is in his battered living room. He is far behind with field work, chores and
farm payments; complains about low farm commodity prices, but he has so many
hours diverted to the fantasy world of the screen that there would be few
remaining to produce good crops regardless of price.
5. Family needs both Dad and Mom
working full time (and robbing hours from family life) to make payments on
latest model TV equipment and accessories, pay the baby sitter, and payments
on all the needless gadgets and travel which TV persuaded them to buy with
their credit cards.
6. Empty church on week night for our
Lady’s devotions and Eucharistic benediction. Can’t miss favorite nightly
programs; the latter also convinces them that the former belongs to a past age
and is no longer relevant.
7. Seeing a blessed statue on the TV
set that supposedly might cause Our Lady to condone or convert satan!
8. Young lady, nominally Catholic,
approaching an abortion mill--she has learned to justify fornication from TV,
and was only “doing what everyone else would” in her condition.
9. Catholic marriage break-up--one
spouse insisted on TV and its domination, while the other, aware of its harm,
could no longer live with “the thing” in the house--or one spouse learned all
about his “rights” and “freedoms” from TV’s indoctrination and finds marital
vows and obligations simply “out of date” and no longer binding.
10. So as not to miss numerous TV
programs, the family has a set in the living room, kitchen, every bedroom,
lawn table, motor home, at the beach, in the customized van, at the workplace,
basement bar, laundry room, cab of farm tractor, in the boat, and near
grandmother’s death bed.
11. Family rosary was
discontinued--interfered with “family type” TV shows.
12. Copy of the latest magazine with
schedule of TV programs (with immodest picture on its cover) on a table at the
home of good, (and considered holy) loveable older widow’s home; at least two
TV sets on the main floor of her home.
13. Girl loses her vocation to
religious life, because she was scandalized by TV programs that portrayed
priests and nuns as rather “stupid.”
14. Young man was dismissed from
seminary because of low grades--TV had absorbed his study time.
15. Priest called too late to
death-bed; he attempted “commendation” prayers for the deceased, but had to
ask the family to please turn off the blaring TV situated four feet from the
deceased one’s head.
16. Young man in jail for imitating
sex crimes seen on TV and videos.
17.
At an annual banquet dinner for an organization that is mainly made up of
Catholics the entertainment has a comedian imitating famous personalities. He
uses constant profanity, gutter talk, sex-related words, indecent gestures,
and some sacrilegious, anti-traditional Catholic jokes. The large audience of
Catholics laughs hilariously--the humor is no different from television, which
has long since conditioned their conscience and opened their minds to full
acceptance of this type of humor. They consider such a performer to be a great
“artist”!
18. There are some good bishops and
cardinals in the Church, and very often they are given the heaviest crosses to
bear. The Cardinal Archbishop of New York [the late Cardinal O’Connor] suffers
weekly abuse from the media (television especially), because he maintains
constant teachings of the Church on sexual morality. In face, when he wakes up
on Monday mornings, he wonders how, when, and where they will “strike” this
week. Trying to be compassionate to those perverted souls who promote their
evil ways, the media, which justifies and publicizes them, are vicious and
constant. But what must also hurt him is that some of his brother bishops
elsewhere in the country give support to his attackers’ perversions and to the
media.
19. Youth, adults, families--Catholics
of all ages--watching “dirty” or in other ways immoral, movies by way of video
rentals or purchases. This has come to be an additional evil use of the
television monster. If conscience is not already deadened, this new means can
complete the job quickly. They are made more insidious because of easy access
and the “everybody’s using them” syndrome. And along with regular TV
immorality, if you ask “why?”--why are you doing this?--the reply is something
like the response of a well-known mountain climber gave after he was the first
to successfully scale a seemingly impossible mountain that included jagged
ice--“Because it was there.” Another cliché that apparently is assumed
regarding sinful technical devices (television and videos), “If it can be
made--it can be used!”
20. Very young boys, seven, six or
even five--taught to say impure four-letter words and curse words in their
acting parts for TV programs, videos and movies.
21. After twenty hours of television
and twenty hours of rock music on radios--forty hours of questionable,
electronic entertainment per week, the young couple experts to be further
entertained during the forty-five minutes per week--only time given to
religion, at the Sunday obligation Mass--even insisting on rock type “hymn”
(!?) lest they be bored.
22. Having had their “values
clarified” by TV, and unable to attempt recollection necessary for any divine
contemplation, one author adds: Young theology students insist on a modern
Christology where the sense of mystery is de-emphasized; therefore, also want
a popular, “contemporary” liturgy which seems to be more a product of
erudition than the fruit of contemplation.
23. Seeing large, holy pictures of Our
Lord, Our Blessed Mother, and other saints stripped from the walls of Catholic
homes while pictures of TV heroes, ever more daring and seductive replace
them.
24. Because of endless impure,
sex-related scenes on television, consecrated celibacy is questioned by
modernist theologians; they say such is impossible for modern priest
candidates to endure. Obviously celibacy and television are incompatible,
therefore “celibacy has to go, not television.”
25. Since TV has thoroughly
disseminated the contraceptive and abortion mentality, birth rate has fallen
to the extent that public schools and staff are “hurting for customers”.
Apparent solution is for State Education Department to “throw more money” at
them so new and more devious programs (classroom sex education, for example)
can keep the schools staff open and employed--more classes for few students
are required.
26. A retired couple sit and watch
Phil Donahue on a weekday morning. he has a studio full of self-proclaimed
homosexuals, and a woman who is vociferously proclaiming their rights.
Supposedly there is a “balance” in the message, because a man is present who
weakly states that their acts are immoral and sinful. (Of course, he is a
minority of one). At show’s end, the camera makes a quick sweep of naked men
in the front row audience--sort of a quick flash and also a “mist” to prevent
total exposure of their naked bodies, but clear enough to prevent television’s
unchaste shock. The elderly couple, formerly secure in their Faith and now
confused, come to their Pastor making him defend the correct Church’s morality
on such an issue.
27. Concerned priest has to defend
sacred truths, sacraments and sacramentals to a group who are convinced that
these are no longer relevant—constant TV programming made them believe that
any religious beliefs that have not changed to be in line with modern TV times
have questionable meaning.
28. With the many “freedoms” and
“rights” which television insists that we must have, and wants to make
universal, there are obvious contradictions. In fact, television “freedom”
locks one into a confinement, where there is no freedom and no room for
serious consideration of unchangeable, Catholic morals. The right to such
consideration appears to be denied when “equal” (or even minimal) time is
requested to rebut the immorality of many TV programs.
29. Many good, concerned, Catholic
spiritual groups have clearly identified the grave immorality which pervades
society, both within and without the Church. They also correctly point to the
satanic dissemination of such evils: television. But for one reason or
another, all of them stop short of suggesting the “first step” to take (along
with the prayer and sacrifice): Get rid of television in the home.
30. If television tolerates anything
Catholic, by way of news or events, it must be that of the most liberal, ultra
feminist, anti-papal Catholics, who are “wide open” to all sexual
permissiveness and perversion. And, of course, priest and nuns in such
televised “news” items are wearing secular clothes. But when prime time
programs portray anything Catholic, it is just the opposite in their ridicule
of Catholic doctrine and traditions—priests are wearing cassocks or clerical
clothing; sisters wearing habits; church are unrenovated; sacraments and
sacramentals are depicted in the way that God fearing Catholics hold dear.
31. Progress toward a new Global
Government has been steadily promoted and is being sold to American minds.
People in richer countries allow this movement, not because their natural
intelligence or inclinations indicate the need for it, but because they have
been lied to; and that lied has been played into their eyes and ears by a
“prostituted, Godless media” playing the role of midwife in the birth of new,
Godless, one-world government.
32. The “Kingship of Christ”, although
a great feast day in our Church, is, thanks to television control of minds, an
alien concept to young Catholics who view it as a sort of “treason” to our
American government. So much for Church influence vs. television influence.
33. Until very recent years legitimate
fears were expressed that technology would build weapons that would annihilate
mankind. This remains a threat as such weapons now exist. But new economic
evils have arisen in world technology where evil controls communications that
destroy the souls of mankind—a much worse annihilation.
34. The two most influential sources
in a small mid-western town, used to be its Catholic Church and Catholic
school. Today, the school is gone, the Church severely weakened; the great
influence of the Catholic Church has been replaced by the influence of taverns
and television.
35. Many teachers, preachers,
administrators, foremen and others who speak before groups now tend to mirror
“talk show artists” in their gestures, mannerisms and language. “Mommy, my
teacher is getting more and more like …. on TV last night!”
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