There’s a disturbing trend happening in Hollywood right now, just as the Catholic Church elected a new pope. The entertainment industry has long hated Catholics, but we’ve noticed several shows have amplified sacrilege and bigotry to new levels. Here’s a roundup of the most recent offenders:
Hacks (HBO’s MAX): Season 4, episode 7, “D’Christening,” featured one of the most offensive scenes we’ve witnessed against the Catholic Church. The episode was filled with anti-Catholic jabs, but the Eucharistic scene is particularly cringeworthy for everyone who believes in the True Presence of Jesus in the holy Sacrament of Communion:
Later, the Eucharistic minister, DJ (Kaitlin Olson), admits she’s only doing it to market her jewelry business. She calls the Church’s parishioners “Jesus freaks” with “a lot of cash” who are “sitting ducks,” much to her anti-Catholic mother Deborah’s (Jean Smart) delight.
Your Friends and Neighbors (Apple TV+): Season 1, episode 6, “The Things You Lost Along the Way,” featured an even more disturbingly sacrilegious scene as Coop (Jon Hamm) and Mel (Amanda Peet) break into a Catholic church, desecrate the Eucharist, and mock the holy Sacrament of Reconciliation before attempting to have sex in a pew:
Apple TV releases disgraceful scene in Your Friends & Neighbors where a couple breaks into a Catholic Church and snacks on Consecrated Hosts!
— Catholics for Catholics ???????? (@CforCatholics) June 4, 2025
Would Apple mock another religion besides Christianity?
GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED! pic.twitter.com/LGF1g04cPd
Communion is the true presence of Christ for Catholics, becoming His body and blood at every Mass, something that should never be mocked or used as fodder for so-called entertainment. The scene has sparked viewer outrage, with some canceling their Apple TV+ subscriptions, boycotting the show, and vowing to never buy any Apple products, while CatholicVote has created a petition demanding that Apple TV+ apologize and remove the episode.
And Just Like That (MAX): Season 3, episode 1 of the Sex and the City spinoff, “Outlook Good,” introduces Rosie O’Donnell as Mary, a Catholic lesbian nun who has a sexual encounter with Miranda (Cynthia Nixon). Not knowing Mary was a virgin or a nun before their tryst, Miranda complains to Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), which is when the horribly offensive “jokes” begin to drop:
Mary says she won’t “leave God” for Miranda because of her marriage-like covenant with Him but is completely unbothered by breaking her vows via what the Catholic Church clearly teaches is a sinful, homosexual act, saying, “I always knew this person was somewhere inside of me.”
You might want to see an exorcist about that, Mary.
Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu): Season 2 of this hit series also features a Catholic nun, Agnes (Dolly de Leon), but this one has left her vocation to seek absolution for a past “sin” only “She” can forgive. “She,” being God, Agnes explains. Right.
Instead of utilizing the Sacrament of Reconciliation with her priest and continuing her vocation as any normal Catholic nun would do, she instead searches for forgiveness at the Alpine hallucinogenic drug retreat this season centers around.
Of all the anti-Catholic propaganda this show has pushed this season, Agnes’ flashback in episode 3, “The Field Trip,” where we see a woman and her unborn baby die in childbirth because a cruel head nun proclaims it’s “God’s will,” was the most ridiculous:
Gee, Agnes. Maybe misgendering God is the real reason you can’t hear His voice anymore? Just a guess.
FBI: Most Wanted (CBS): Thankfully, this was the final season for this unabashedly liberal drama. But the writers made sure to go out with an anti-Catholic bang, proving just how much Hollywood desperately needs to include Catholic consultants on their shows.
Episode 21, “Souls on ICE,” portrays a secret, underground, Hispanic Catholic Church that suddenly gets raided by fake ICE agents. But the priest is female, and the rosary-praying deacon is in an openly homosexual relationship. This ignores the reality of Catholic worship and teachings, pushing a clear agenda.
Out of the thousands of Spanish Catholic masses around the country every week, absolutely none of them are forced to go underground to worship in secret. But who needs facts when you’re a liberal television writer with an agenda?
Hollywood’s pattern of misrepresenting and mocking Catholicism is blatant, out of control, and unacceptable. These shows not only offend but distort sacred beliefs for cheap entertainment, revealing a need for authentic Catholic representation in media.