AMC has "Catholic" Theme Drama

Well this is interesting. I have to admit I have been so glued to the Olympics I missed this

It’s “Mad Men,” the compellingly watchable and increasingly fascinating drama on AMC about advertising in the early 1960s. One of the characters is Peggy, a young and ambitious copywriter who worked her way up from secretary last season; Peggy had a brief fling with one of the married ad men, and that left her with a baby, now being raised by Peggy’s mother in Brooklyn. This season, we’re getting a glimpse at what that life in Brooklyn entails -- including Sunday mass at Church of the Holy Innocents, where a new young priest has arrived. On last night's episode, he was invited to have dinner with Peggy’s family.

One of the things that is so absorbing about “Mad Men” is that it shows the world on the cusp, teetering between the picket fences of the ‘50s, and the picket lines in the ‘60s. It’s 1962, and the first tremors of frustration and discontent are being felt that will lead to the seismic jolts that rocked everything from sexuality to politics to religion. When the young priest is asked to say grace before dinner, he offers a watery “thanks-for-all-we-have-and-everybody-here.” Peggy’s mother glares for a moment. “That’s very nice, Father,” she snaps. “But could you please say grace?”

And he does. Later – in what could be the first stirrings of some attraction to Peggy – he drives her to the subway station and asks her thoughts, as a writer, about sermons. “It’s the only part of the mass that’s not in Latin,” Peggy says, “but sometimes it’s hard to tell.” She offers him some advice about making eye contact. He asks her if she’d look over his sermon for Easter, and she agrees. (She praises it later on by saying, “It was very…colloquial.”)

The Deacon Bench has more at The Catholicism of "Mad Men"