Dear Mara:

Well, Mara, I know it is a concept utterly foreign to you, but the woman on EWTN was exercising something called MODESTY. Perhaps she was being overly modesty and unnecessarily circumspect in her language, but even over-modesty is a breath of fresh air from the sulfuric stench of lewdness spewed by our culture today

And you are right, a lot of people do have disdain for Catholics because the Church teaches against the immaturity of lewdness and immodesty and degradation of the human person. Shame on us.

The shame, however, belongs not to us, but on the shameless people who rape modesty and true sexuality. In the old days a person without shame was called a geek. This term was derived from the geek shows in carnivals and circuses in the 19th century. The geeks were people with various bodily deformities who displayed themselves to the curious, thus, without shame exposed themselves as curiosities for money.

Our society today is filled with geeks; our society itself has become a geek society. We are without shame, we are without modesty, we are without maturity, we are without God.

The Vagina Monologues are more than without shame, it is pornographic assault upon the audience, assault upon women, and an assault against decency.

The "Women for Faith and Family," a good and loyal Catholic organization that promotes the TRUE dignity of women, summarizes the Vagina Monologues in a letter (at this link see section called In a different voice) to St. Louis Archbishop Justin Rigali before the performance at St. Louis University:

Vagina Monologues is destructive, pornographic, deforming agit-prop deliberately and cynically aimed at young women - in particular at young Catholic women - a form of victimization that it is perilous to ignore. It contradicts at the deepest level the truth of creation; it is profoundly anti-Catholic, anti-God; and a contemptible assault on the very nature of the human person.

Bishop John M. D'Arcy, in an article entitled, "Concerning a Presentation at Notre Dame," said:

The Vagina Monologues is offensive to women; it is antithetical to Catholic teaching on the beautiful gift of human sexuality and also to the teachings of the church on the human body relative to its purpose and to its status as a temple of the Holy Spirit. The human body and the human person, in the tradition of the church, must never be seen as an object.

Everyone should be treated with dignity. This is part of our following of the Gospel. A womans dignity is closely connected with the love which she receives by the very reason of her femininity; it is likewise connected with the love which she gives in return. 

On the Dignity of Women, Pope John Paul II 

Indeed, it can truly be said that woman, like man, can only find herself by giving herself to others. This has always been a welcome theme at Notre Dame. The theme, however, finds no place in the text in question. In that text, the physical is separated from the spiritual. The body is separated from love. The woman is separated from the man and is even placed in opposition to him. There is nothing of beauty here, nothing of love.

There is no way a Catholic can find that the Vagina Monologues "Rock" unless that Catholic has been stunted in their maturity or has become a geek.

Since we are on the subject of modesty, I'll repost the important quote from St. John Chrysostom (5th Century) on modesty of dress (a related topic):

You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not, indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment and much more effectively than you could by your voice.

When you have made another sin in his heart, how can you be innocent?

Tell me, whom does this world condemn? Whom do judges in court punish? Those who drink poison or those who prepare it and administer the fatal potion? You have prepared the abominable cup, you have given the death-dealing drink, and you are more criminal than are those who poison the body; you murder not the body but the soul. And it is not to enemies you do this, nor are you urged on by any imaginary necessity, nor provoked by injury, but out of foolish vanity and pride.

Modesty in dress, modesty in speech, modesty in person, modesty in thought, modesty in presentation, modesty is decorum are all Christian virtues. There is no Christian virtue in the Vagina Monologues nor is there dignity toward women in this perverted presentation masquerading as "art."

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary