Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Forever Amber - a Film Banned in Philly by Cardinal Dennis Dougherty


Wikipedia Commons - Public Domain USA (copyright not renewed) 


Trying to find his pastoral letter, its exact wording, around June 1934 having Catholics in the AD of Philadelphia boycotting all cinema to make it more decent by the absence of Catholics therein, I ran into old Denny's tirade against Forever Amber being banned at the FOX theater downtown. I can't find proof of his ever rescinding his 1934 fatwa. So why the shout out again in 1947 to the faithful?

No mention of the 1934 Fatwa against the ethnic types in Hollywood in his seemingly incomplete Wikipedia biography. 

I researched and there is no anti-Semitic angle that might have stirred his little pee-pee, so I guess the theme of the novel and movie Forever Amber of a woman not knowing her place in the world and sleeping her way to the top of Charles II royal court is a disturbing fact to challenge his worldview of boys only having that right of sleeping their way to the top (of the Vatican's hierarchy) I would imagine. 

Where's a good old fashioned Republican cloth coated "Religious Liberty Task Force" when you need one? LOL



Inquirer 22 Nov 1947





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