Catholic advocacy organization CatholicVote is challenging Apple CEO Tim Cook on what it called a “Eucharistic desecration” scene in an Apple TV+ program after the group gained about 170,000 signatures on a petition from people saying they “won’t stand for blasphemy.”
Fox News first reported on the letter Friday.
“As the nation’s largest lay Catholic advocacy organization, we write to express our concern about a blasphemous anti-Catholic scene in the Apple TV+ show, ‘Your Friends and Neighbors,'” CatholicVote Vice President Josh Mercer said in the June 2 letter about the program.
“Episode 6 of the series depicts two characters breaking into a Catholic church,” Mercer’s letter continued. “The male character steals Eucharistic hosts from the tabernacle, which they eat as a snack. The man flippantly remarks about how they are eating the Body of Christ. The man feeds a host to the female character and feigns blessing her. Then they begin engaging in romantic activity in the pews before the pastor walks in and they flee the church.”
CatholicVote launched a petition that has garnered more than 169,596 signatures as of Friday, Fox News reported.
Apple did not immediately respond to an inquiry from The Daily Signal for this story.
Fox also reported that it received no response from Apple.