TV & VIDEO - Jan. 30, 1987

About 20 Roman Catholic protesters demonstrated outside CBS’ Chicago office late Wednesday charging the network was “Catholic baiting” when it aired “Broken Vows” Wednesday. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights said the TV movie was a “cheap movie that smears the Catholic religion.” The film, starring Tommy Lee Jones, concerns a priest who falls in love with a woman and breaks his vow of celibacy. “The Catholic community is not going to support advertisers who think it is acceptable to drag holy orders through the filth and vile of sex-saturated TV,” said Eric Bower, executive director of the Chicago chapter of the league, which he called the anti-defamation arm of the church, with about 100,000 U.S. members. A CBS spokesman called the group’s protest “extreme.”