Comments on: Another ad gets Catholics mad

By: Evil Dave

Evil Dave — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:10:37 +0000

Prompted by your coverage of their outrage – which was the first time I’d seen either ad, or even heard of the company – I bought some of their ice cream. It was delicious.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:34:20 +0000

Surely the priest and the nun in the first ad. should actually be a priest offering sweeties, or scrumptious ice cream, to a child. That would seem to fit the facts a little better.

By: Monitor

Monitor — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:20:36 +0000

You are right, Joe. I forgot about that. In fact, the complainers themselves seem to be under that misapprehension when they say the ad “mocks the virgin birth of Jesus.”

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:14:29 +0000

I’m hugely disappointed they haven’t complained on the grounds of doctrinal inaccuracy, since the top ad seems to make the common error of conflating the immaculate conception with the virgin birth; the former in fact refers to the Catholic belief that Mary was, uniquely among the human race, conceived without the taint of original sin.

By: Stonyground

Stonyground — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:57:21 +0000

All this getting offended isn’t an attempt to deflect attention away from the fact that the RCC is a vile cesspool of iniquity is it?

Just so that you all know, Vincent Nichols has come out and said that he does not want vuvuzelas blowing at the Pope when he comes to visit.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:29:45 +0000

I find the older one offensive because the man is airbrushed so much he looks like a plastic mannequin. The new one’s rather fun though.