Originally published at The Catholic Thing
Blue Bloods, which aired its final episode on Friday, is not only a police drama. It’s a family drama about a police family. Tom Selleck stars as Francis (Frank) Xavier Reagan, the Irish Catholic police commissioner of New York City. Widowed, he lives with his widower father, Henry Reagan, who also served as the NYPD commissioner, now retired. There have been other family crime shows – either highlighting the cops or the robbers. But Blue Bloods is also a show about a practicing Catholic family. As the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue put it, the series is “one the few TV shows on the broadcast networks to treat Catholicism fairly.”
