Catholic Group Calls Out Tim Cook, Apple Tv+ For Show's 'eucharistic Desecration'

A Catholic group is calling retired Apple CEO Tim Cook and Apple TV+ successful a missive demanding an apology and removal of a "Eucharistic desecration" segment successful 1 of its shows.

"As nan nation’s largest laic Catholic defense organization, we constitute to definitive our interest astir a blasphemous anti-Catholic segment successful the Apple TV+ show, Your Friends and Neighbors," CatholicVote said successful a Monday letter obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital.  

"Episode 6 of nan bid depicts 2 characters breaking into a Catholic church," nan letter, signed by Josh Mercer, vice president of CatholicVote, reads. "The antheral characteristic steals Eucharistic hosts from nan tabernacle, which they eat arsenic a snack. The man flippantly remarks astir really they are eating nan Body of Christ. The man feeds a big to nan female characteristic and feigns blessing her. Then they statesman engaging successful romanticist activity successful nan pews earlier nan pastor walks in, and they fly nan church." 

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A Catholic group is calling retired Apple CEO Tim Cook and Apple TV+ successful a missive demanding a retraction and an apology for a celebrated show that depicted characters desecrating nan Eucharist. (Getty Images/iStock)

Mercer, who is besides requesting a gathering pinch Cook to talk really nan institution tin beforehand "true diverseness and tolerance," called nan segment "sacrilegious," and asked Cook if he would beryllium tolerant of akin contented mocking nan Islamic aliases Jewish religion. CatholicVote's website called it a "shocking depiction of Eucharistic desecration."

"As Catholics, we person believed for 2,000 years that nan Eucharist is not simply a portion of bread," Mercer wrote. "It is nan body, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ. The believe of taking communion was instituted by Christ himself astatine nan Last Supper. Receiving nan Eucharist astatine Mass is, arsenic nan Catechism of nan Catholic Church puts it, 'the root and acme of nan Christian life.'"

He besides highlighted a statement connected Apple’s website, which appears to worth supporting those from various walks of life, stating, "At Apple, we create a civilization … pinch a North Star of dignity, respect, and opportunity for everyone. Because we’re not each nan same. And that remains 1 of our top strengths." 

Mercer besides pointed to a 2015 op-ed from Cook wherever he opposed favoritism against those who supply matrimony licenses to same-sex couples.

Cook wrote that, "I person awesome reverence for belief freedom… Apple is open. Open to everyone, sloppy of wherever they travel from, what they look like, really they believe aliases who they love."

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CatholicVote has launched a petition, pinch 169,596 signatures and counting, asking signers to show Apple activity that they "won’t guidelines for blasphemy."(AP Photo/Fernando Llano) (The Associated Press)

CatholicVote has also launched a petition pinch 169,596 signatures and counting asking signers to show Apple activity that they "won’t guidelines for blasphemy." 

"Apple's shameless depiction of blatant sacrilege wrong a Catholic Church is simply a nonstop onslaught connected what Catholics clasp astir dear," Mercer told Fox News Digital successful a statement. 

"We solemnly judge that nan Eucharist is nan Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ; this basal truth is nan root and acme of our Catholic Faith," he added. "We cannot guidelines by while Christ and His Church are casually mocked successful nan sanction of ‘entertainment.’ We telephone connected Catholics to subordinate america successful demanding that Apple return down nan blasphemous section and rumor an apology. We await Apple's consequence to our missive and dream it makes amends for its violative actions."

Apple CEO Tim Cook. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached retired to Cook and Apple for comment, but did not instantly person a response. 

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