Churches around the world make Playboy’s Virgin Mary edition a hit!

Put this one down for more stupidity.  I mean really, I think the best thing that could ever happen to a movie, or a magazine, or a book is to have a major national organization condemn, boycott, or burn it.  I would have never heard of this edition of the magazine if the church had just ignored it and taken the high road.  Every time a priest or church speaks out about it and calls it ‘blasphemous’ it just gets printed and displayed again.

Perhaps communications and public relations should be a part of theology training?

Case and point.  My father-in-law is a Catholic deacon.  He told me a few years back that some of the people of his parish approached him about condemning the movie Dogma with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.  He politely let the lady know that if you would want the movie to be a hit, that is a sure way to make it so.  Up until that point, he had not even heard of the movie.  Now he has a little figurine of ‘Buddy Jesus’ on his desk.

I hope some church’s gather around and boycott DaddyHogwash.com.  “Bring it on,” as my buddy George Bush likes to say.

Priest: Playboy cover resembling Mary ‘desperate,’ ‘blasphemous’ – CNN.com

(CNN) — Playboy magazine issued an apology Monday for the cover of its Mexican edition, which features an Argentine model in what many observers say is meant to be a depiction of the Virgin Mary.
Playboy issued an apology after outrage erupted over this cover of the magazine’s Mexican edition.

Playboy issued an apology after outrage erupted over this cover of the magazine’s Mexican edition.

Playboy Mexico has said the cover was not meant to portray the Virgin Mary, despite being printed just days before the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe — both Catholic holidays centering on the Virgin Mary.

CNN’s Rick Sanchez sat down with CNN Español’s Glenda Umana and Father Albert Cutie, a Radio La Paz host, to discuss the reaction among Mexicans and Catholics. The transcript has been edited for clarity.

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