Former “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm is facing a backlash for a “blasphemous anti-Catholic” scene in a new Apple+ TV series in which the actor breaks into a church and starts snacking on the Eucharist.
In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, the largest Catholic advocacy group, CatholicVote, demanded an apology for the scene in Episode 6 of the series, “Your Friends and Neighbors,” depicting two characters breaking into a Catholic church to eat the Eucharist:
🚨 Apple aired a scene where Jon Hamm desecrates the Eucharist—calling it “the Body of Christ” with a smirk.
The scene adds nothing to the story. It’s gratuitous, targeted blasphemy.
Catholics, speak up.
Demand @Apple remove this offensive episode:https://t.co/NbPorvoDNS pic.twitter.com/CvNDfQKQzQ
— CatholicVote (@CatholicVote) June 5, 2025
“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,” the letter from Josh Mercer, Vice President of CatholicVote, obtained by Fox News, read.
“The male character [Hamm] steals Eucharistic hosts from the tabernacle, which they eat as a snack,” the letter added. “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.”
The Fox report read:
Mercer, who is also requesting a meeting with Cook to discuss how the company can promote “true diversity and tolerance,” called the scene “sacrilegious” and asked Cook if he would be tolerant of similar content mocking the Islamic or Jewish religion. CatholicVote’s website called it a “shocking depiction of Eucharistic desecration.”
“As Catholics, we have believed for 2,000 years that the Eucharist is not simply a piece of bread,” Mercer wrote. “It is the body, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ. The practice of taking communion was instituted by Christ himself at the Last Supper. Receiving the Eucharist at Mass is, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church puts it, ‘the source and summit of the Christian life.'”
The group also launched a petition demanding that the offensive scene be removed and a public apology issued to the global Catholic community. As of Friday, nearly 300,000 people had signed it.
In a letter to Fox News, Mercer called Apple’s “shameless depiction of blatant sacrilege” inside a Catholic Church a “direct attack on what Catholics hold most dear.”
“We cannot stand by while Christ and His Church are casually mocked in the name of ‘entertainment,'” he continued. “We call on Catholics to join us in demanding that Apple take down the blasphemous episode and issue an apology. We await Apple’s response to our letter and hope it makes amends for its offensive actions.”
The host of the Sirius XM “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast also talked about the offensive scene and said even as someone who isn’t a “die-hard Catholic,” the scene is BS, in a rant that did include profanity.
“This is disgusting,” Kelly said. “Where is the film showing somebody drawing the so-called prophet Muhammad? I’m not a die-hard Catholic. I don’t know scripture. I’m not one of those people I listen to, like my pal John Rich, talk about the Bible, and I sit in awe just learning.”
“But I am a believer, and I’m a, I’m a Catholic, and I have to say, like, that is the most sacrosanct thing they could take to bash,” she added. “I’m just saying for Catholics, we believe that that’s the actual body of Jesus Christ, and [..] you for using it for your PR…”
It just appears to be another example of Hollywood’s hostility towards Christianity, something actor Matthew McConaughey has touched on.
During his 2021 appearance on the “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, the actor talked about what he called the “bias against Christians in Hollywood”:
“One of the things that … some people in our industry, not all of them, but there’s some… that go to the illiberal Left side so far that it’s so condescending and patronizing to 50% of the world that need the empathy that the liberals have, and should have,” McConaughey said.
“To… illegitimize [Christians] because they say they are a believer, it’s just so arrogant and in some ways hypocritical to me.”
McConaughey also spoke openly about how he believes — and has since college — that the Bible and physical world of science work together.
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