The Terrence McNally play that depicts Christ having sex with the twelve apostles, "Corpus Christi," was performed at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), March 28-31. Research disclosed that FAU has programs aimed at students who are Thai, Haitian, Chinese, African American, women, gays and Jews. Indeed, the same week it hosted "Corpus Christi," it featured several events [...]
It happened on a late Friday afternoon, March 30. Patrick Scully, the league’s director of communications, told William Donohue that an article had appeared that day in a Fort Lauderdale newspaper, the Sun Sentinel, claiming that when the play "Corpus Christi" opened in New York in 1998, "The league threatened violence…." Donohue immediately called the Sun Sentinel making the [...]
On March 6, Brit Hume of Fox News Network reported that CNN founder Ted Turner stunned CNN employees in Washington when he made an anti-Catholic remark on Ash Wednesday. Seeing ashes on the foreheads of some workers, Turner said, "What are you? A bunch of Jesus freaks? You ought to be working for Fox." The Catholic [...]
Daily Variety printed the following headline on March 8: "Catholic League prexy gives Turner a sermon." It then quoted Donohue on Turner: "He may be just as dumb as John Rocker, but unlike the Atlanta pitcher, he occupies a position of significant influence in our culture." Which is why Donohue floated the idea of shipping Turner off [...]
The lead article in the last issue of Catalyst was on the latest flap at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It involved the Catholic League’s criticism of "Yo Mama’s Last Supper," a photographic exhibit that featured artist Renee Cox appearing nude as Jesus in a rendition of the Last Supper. On February 20, Donohue debated Cox at the [...]
As soon as the media found out about the latest anti-Catholic exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, they contacted the Catholic League. We immediately launched a national protest that was enjoined by many notables on both sides. "The Today Show," the New York Times, CNN and Fox News Channel were only a few of the [...]
Time Out New York is a glossy magazine with a gay edge that covers New York social and cultural events. In its January 4-11 edition, it featured a discussion of the best and worst of 2000 in many categories. In the Gay & Lesbian section, the top listing for "The Best" of 2000 read as follows: Cardinal John [...]
Every Christmas season is a busy time for the Catholic League, but this past Christmas broke the record. Radical secularists across the nation went berserk trying to stamp out the religious significance of the holiday. Our response was equally unyielding. Just as December began, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) wasted no time issuing a pamphlet, "The December [...]
On Nov. 13, the News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware ran a story on a "nationally known Holocaust educator Jack P. McGough." McGough had spoken the day before at the student center on the campus of the University of Delaware (UD) in Newark; he was identified as a professor at UD. The Jewish Federation of Delaware sponsored his talk, [...]
Following a protest by the Catholic League, a 24 year-old copy editor in Spokane, Washington was asked to resign after she labeled Gonzaga University president Rev. Robert Spitzer a "Nazi priest" in the pages of the Spokesman-Review. On November 8, the Spokane daily ran a short piece entitled, "Nazi priest promotes his book." The story was simply [...]
