Rape of the Soul



I get a lot of press releases that I basically ignore. I was thinking of starting a feature on this blog (for pleasure of my four unique viewers), where I post excerpts from the funniest/silliest press releases -- you know, the stuff about, like, the DogCatemy Awards. For that purpose, I was scrolling through my deleted mail today to see if there were any releases I had recently trashed, when I came across this:

"Rape of the Soul" Documentary Alleges Blasphemous Religious Artwork Containing Satanic Pornography in Religious Paintings Hymnals and Websites

Toronto, ON (PRWeb) December 5, 2006 -- Yet another controversial painting that was uncovered in the feature film documentary "Rape of the Soul," and shown to contain embedded satanic and immoral material, including multiple images of 666, demonic faces and sexual references, has been removed from public view.

"Rape of the Soul" director Michael A. Calace, who is a Catholic said, "The Archdiocese of Toronto has pulled a blasphemous painting from their website, after the same painting was present on their home page since 1999. The painting was specially requisitioned, approved, promoted and executed by Cardinal Ambrozic's Director of Catholic Family Life, Suzanne Scorsone."

The film alleges Scorsone, along with her colleagues, engineered highly inappropriate embedded images to appear in Catholic religious art via websites, hymnals and missals in the US, Canada, and globally.

Unable to decide if this was totally ridiculous, or really, really interesting, I went to You Tube (which, incidentally, should maybe consider running with the slogan, "The Place For Things That Are Simultaneously Totally Ridiculous and Really, Really Interesting"), and found the above clip, which is apparently the opening minute or so of the film. I'm in the middle of twelve other things right now, but I want to revisit this later. I'm sort of a sucker for anything having to do with subliminal Satanic imagery, and I love this idea that there's a battle going on between the Catholic Church and this lone rogue "expert in embed art" who's trying to out the archdiocese for promoting perversion.