Passions

[MParedon]

The soap opera. I used to watch it, it started out ok, but then of course it did it's best to live up (or down) to it's name and started getting racy. Well anyway, I actually came across it on the radio while I was in my car. One of the main characters is a very good meaning very bad girl who is pregnant with twins, she is faced with the option of aborting one baby so the other can live, and as a Catholic, she's not going to do it. I find it very intriguing in how they insert Catholicism into the plots. Looking back on what I've watched, it's a very pro-Life show with many characters behaving badly otherwise, but I guess that is how it is in life sometimes.

Some other examples of Catholicism I've seen on the show:

*A priest refused to give an annullment to a married couple (it showed a really bad understanding of what the process of a declarition of annulment entails, but the point was made)

*A character's (I think the only faithful Catholic on the show) husband has gone missing and she waits many many years for him and still considers herself married even if he left her for another woman.

*Another character was considered brain-dead and the decision to keep him alive was made (with significant pointing out of Catholic Teaching)

Well, I can't think of anything more, I just found it a bit striking because other soaps usually use the Catholic Church as some sort of backdrop or mood setting (ahem...Days of Our Lives)

Ok, back to regular scheduled programming. These are just ramblings of someone who used to be a Passions fan. LOL I'm not crazy...really.

 

[Irenaeus]

Passions is the craziest soap opera ever.

A lot of soap operas like these can be like soft porn. I avoid them like the plague.

That's really interesting though, MParedon...that's interesting how moral questions are brought up. Very interesting indeed!

 

[CrystalBrooke]

Passions is awesome....rep bump for you!

 

[MParedon]

When the show first started it was very cute and clean, one of the reasons it interested me. I don't know when it all went wacko, but it went down fast.

 

[Michelina]

Catholicism is "fair game" for Hollywood and TV.

It is almost always misrepresented, much to our detriment.

Kyrie, eleison......

 

[Rosa Mystica]

The soap opera. I used to watch it, it started out ok, but then of course it did it's best to live up (or down) to it's name and started getting racy. Well anyway, I actually came across it on the radio while I was in my car. One of the main characters is a very good meaning very bad girl who is pregnant with twins, she is faced with the option of aborting one baby so the other can live, and as a Catholic, she's not going to do it. I find it very intriguing in how they insert Catholicism into the plots. Looking back on what I've watched, it's a very pro-Life show with many characters behaving badly otherwise, but I guess that is how it is in life sometimes.

Some other examples of Catholicism I've seen on the show:

*A priest refused to give an annullment to a married couple (it showed a really bad understanding of what the process of a declarition of annulment entails, but the point was made)

*A character's (I think the only faithful Catholic on the show) husband has gone missing and she waits many many years for him and still considers herself married even if he left her for another woman.

*Another character was considered brain-dead and the decision to keep him alive was made (with significant pointing out of Catholic Teaching)

Well, I can't think of anything more, I just found it a bit striking because other soaps usually use the Catholic Church as some sort of backdrop or mood setting (ahem...Days of Our Lives)

Ok, back to regular scheduled programming. These are just ramblings of someone who used to be a Passions fan. LOL I'm not crazy...really.

I noticed these things too. I also remember when Grace (the devoutly Catholic character) reminded her niece that the Church taught against premarital sex. My sister and I looked at one another as if to say, "Did you hear what I heard?"

Sadly, I've also heard a pro-contraception statement from the character Pilar when her son had out-of-wedlock sex and got a girl pregnant ("You didn't even use protection"). In addition to this, I've seen characters go to confession and skip over a whole bunch of mortal sins (like the fornication they had committed!).

So, that's my take on the show. Thanks for posting this, Maria.