A reader who saw this item about a Catholic actor with values pointed me to this piece about a woman who made her name on “Saturday Night Live,” and is now making a name for herself as an actress of decidedly Catholic convictions:

A few years ago the CUA-trained actress Siobhan Fallon Hogan landed a recurring role on a television series that seemed perfect for her. It was filmed in New York City so it would be easy to get to from her New Jersey home, she loved the character, and the regular pay would help her and her husband provide for their children and maybe even send them to college.

Then the show’s writers decided to have her character, a churchgoing Catholic, have an affair — an affair that would begin at Mass. Her character would drop her missalette, a guy would pick it up, they would lock eyes, and it would take off from there.

That was a problem for her.

Fallon Hogan said to herself, “Agh, this is the perfect job — and I can’t do it anymore. Because I’m not having an affair, and, especially, why did the writers have to start the affair at Mass?”

So, reluctantly, she quit the show.

“Which was hideous,” says the actress, “because I hadn’t even finished the episode I was in, so I had to go to work having quit — and who likes a quitter? Finishing that episode was like working in the enemy camp, or like being the 8th-grade girl that everybody hates and nobody wants to sit with.”

Fallon Hogan had told the producers that she didn’t mean to be a thorn in their side but she had to get out of the show because she had no idea the character was going to go down the path that was now being projected. She said to the producers, “I have a 12-year-old daughter and I’ve taught her certain things and if I do this, I’m nothing more than a big hypocrite to my family.”

One of them asked her, “Can’t you just tell your kids you’re playing a role and you’re acting?”

She replied, “No, I can’t.”

Fallon Hogan (whose first name is pronounced “Sha-vaun”) is one of an unusual and very small cadre of Hollywood actors: those who are very much in demand for major movies and TV shows, but who let their Catholic faith and desire to protect the morality of viewers determine the roles they take and the parts they turn down.

Check out the rest — then scroll down on the link for a story about another Catholic actress, Pat Carroll (best known, perhaps, as the voice of the sea witch in “The Little Mermaid.”)

And: I can’t help but have warm fuzzy feelings for Siobhan Fallon Hogan. She has the same first name as my wife. Which has been a challenge to almost everyone who has had to try and pronounce it. Or spell it. (My pastor still can’t get it right…)