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Viva Cristo Rey
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| Karl said: | | theology101 said: | | I haven't owned a TV in over five years, and I feel more intelligent and better informed than I ever had. The other day I was at a friend's house and his TV was on to the news. He was watching so I watched some, too. After about five minutes I got the worst headache, a migraine really, and it would not go away until I left. |
Interesting, I've noticed the same for myself.
In 1987, Jewish businessman Sumner Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein) purchased majority ownership of Viacom.
Redstone later acquired several television networks and turned the company into one of the largest media organizations in the world.
Viacom currently owns MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, MTV2, Comedy Central, BET, Nick at Nite, Noggin, TV Land, CMT, Spike TV, and Showtime.
For the last 25 years, Americans have grown up watching these networks. Their values and beliefs were formed by The Real World, Cribs, Punk’d, True Life, and most recently Jersey Shore.
Jersey Shore revolves around a group of young adults living together in a beach rental home. By day they work at a T-shirt shop, and the rest of the time they drink, have sex and make jokes about each other.
The show has become MTV’s most watched series of all time.
MTV programs are clear examples social engineering, a media led effort to influence popular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale.
Kids watch Jersey Shore and they see how “adults” behave. Male viewers learn from “The Situation” (Mike Sorrentino) and women learn from Snooki (Nicole Polizzi).
Read more about the MTV culture at JettandJahn.com |
Jersey shore gang is novus ordo "catholics"
Is this what Bishop Fellay and Father Rostand wants for your children?
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To live with the Saints in Heaven is all bliss and glory....To live with the saints on Earth is just another story! (unknown)
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Neil Obstat
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I'm proud to say that I've never seen an episode of Jersey Shore, nor do
I have any desire to ever see one. I've read enough about it now to
know what to look out for, so that if I ever happen to be in a restaurant
or someone's home and it comes on a TV, I'll know not to watch it.
I went through a phase in my younger days when I was getting hooked
on such things, and I somehow was able to rip that out by the roots.
A big part of what gave me the fortitude to stop watching TV was the
newsletter put out by Fr. Frank Poncelet, called "Our Lady's Apostolate
for No TV." He was also the author of Air Waves from Hell, a book that
recommended putting a brick through the screen of your TV to be
sure that it is no longer useful for anyone. He also wrote a sequel,
but neither of these books were very popular. They came at a time
when TV was so pandemic that most people would never even dream
of not watching it, unfortunately.
I just checked and found that Fr. Poncelet has passed away last week:
www.tributes.com/show/Frank-Poncelet-95157773
Fr. Francis "Frank" Poncelet, age 84 died January 24, 2013 at his residence near Hastings[MN]. Fr. Frank served numerous parishes in his years as a priest in the St. Cloud Diocese. Mass of Christian Burial was held Saturday, January 26, 2013 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church with Fr. Robert Altier officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery.
May the good Lord have mercy on his soul, and may he rest in peace.
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.
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