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Catholic Archbishop Primate Eamon Martin has called for an “outrageous clip” aired during his end-of-year countdown program to be removed from RTÉ Player.
The program, aired on RTÉ One television on Thursday night, included a satirical report from Waterford Whispers News “accusing God of rape and denouncing his imprisonment,” the archbishop tweeted on New Year’s Day. “This scandalous clip must be removed immediately and denounced by all people of good will,” he said.
He expressed surprise “that the producer / editor” of the show “did not realize how deeply offensive” it was.
In a second thread of his tweet, he continued: “To broadcast such a deeply offensive and blasphemous clip about God and Our Blessed Mother Mary during the Christmas season” on the show and “on the eve of the solemn feast of Mary, Mother of God insults all Catholics and Christians ”.
The archbishop added the Twitter username of RTÉ CEO Dee Forbes to his tweet. Contacted by The Irish Times on the matter, an RTÉ spokeswoman said the station “had no comment.
The 23-second clip, read by former RTÉ news anchor Aengus Mac Grianna, began: “In another shocking revelation this year, God became the latest figure to be implicated in the ongoing sexual harassment scandals. The five-billion-year-old was charged with imposing on a young migrant from the Middle East and allegedly getting her pregnant against her will before being sentenced to two years in prison with the last 24 months suspended. “
When the report was read, images were shown of an older man with a beard, dressed in white and wearing glasses, escorted by a Garda out of Waterford court to a Garda van and protesting: “It was 2000 years ago.”
The article was followed by a mock report on US film producer Harvey Weinstein, sentenced last year to 23 years in prison for rape and other sexual offenses, who, it claimed, “requested a new trial in Ireland.”
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