Fifty Shades of Grey

Vatican drops image of bound woman after complaints

By Rosie Scammell — March 13, 2015
ROME (RNS) The Pontifical Council for Culture had chosen a photograph of the 1936 "Venus Restored" sculpture for its Feb. 4-7 conference on women and equality. But the choice of a sculpture bound in ropes to discuss women’s emancipation was deemed inappropriate in some quarters.

‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ gets black marks from bishops, pastors

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — February 6, 2015
(RNS) Critics say the movie trailer invites people to a film that, like the books it came from, glamorizes sexual abuse and violence. Nothing Christian -- or moral -- about it.

British hotel replaces Bibles with soft-porn ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

By Nancy Trejos / USA Today — July 26, 2012

(RNS) A hotel in the United Kingdom has replaced in-room Gideon Bibles with the soft-porn best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey. By Nancy Trejos.

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