On Holy Tuesday April 4, TV3, the official television of Catalonia, dependent on the Department of the Presidency of the Generalitat, a station, therefore, paid for by all Spaniards, broadcast the humor program ‘Está passant’, presented by Toni Soler and Jair Domínguez, simulating an interview with the Virgin of El Rocío, with a doll in his arms like Baby Jesus, putting into the mouth of such a dear Mother by the Spanish and especially by the Andalusians that for this reason Andalusia is called “the land of Mary” Phrases that make my pulse tremble with indignation when I reproduce them and that I only do so so that the reader can have an opinion on whether they are crudely funny or gratuitously intolerable insult that they would not applaud addressed to their ladies mothers: I have no choice but to quote them while I wish to forget them , costing me a lot the Christian commandment to turn the other cheek: “to take ass”, “I’ve been 200 years without being able to get laid as God commands”, or that it is “hotter than the stick of a churrero”…
Catalonia, or the separatist Catalans, have accustomed us, because they are allowed to, to remembering the rest of Spaniards to raise budgets and aid and to mock and challenge us as if they were prohibiting our language, and now making fun of our deepest feelings, recently expressed in the manifestation of faith and devotion of our Holy Week, so intensely lived in this ‘land of Mary’.
The general indignation has materialized in restrained comments such as the Andalusian president who believes that “humor is traditional in Andalusia, but it must be done with respect and Affection”, “it is a lack of respect for Andalusia and thousands of Andalusians and their traditions. I hope that to ask for forgiveness they know how to do it better”; The Bishop of Huelva, Monsignor Santiago Gómez, says: “Human coexistence requires a climate of mutual respect to promote peace among us. Criticism and mockery of Catholics demonstrate a lack of human solidarity and can lead to undesirable provocations.” “The right to freedom of thought and expression recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights cannot imply the right to offend the religious feeling of the believers”. The Almonte City Council has expressed its discomfort and has said that it is a serious lack of respect for the municipality of Almonte and the hundreds of thousands of devotees of the Virgin, as well as an unjustified attack, in bad taste that deserves the strongest rejection. The Archbishop of Urgell regretted the parody that hurts the feelings of Catholics and all sensitive people.
This station has already mocked the Spanish, the Andalusian, the Civil Guard, the gypsies…
They seem to be above good and evil, and I wonder if, being so daring, and of course not wanting them to, they would be able to make this gratuitous and unwelcome joke, as a parody of Allah and his prophet Muhammad, or if being so accessible to the joke, they would laugh if the parodied were their parents.
—
Brother and devotee of the Virgin.
