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In the May 14 edition of Variety, the Catholic League ran a full-page ad requesting VIACOM chief Sumner Redstone to condemn the Catholic-bashing film, “Sister Mary Explains It All”; it is scheduled to air on Showtime on May 27. We subsequently issued news releases objecting to the movie and to the anti-Catholic comments made by the film’s [...]
Editor's note: the following story contains graphic material of an offensive nature. As 2005 came to a close, the Catholic League scored another major victory: we got Comedy Central to pull a scheduled rerun of a vile episode of "South Park." News stories trumpeting our victory were printed on December 30. Here's how the story unfolded. [...]
At the end of May, William Donohue told the media, "In the 12 years that I have been president of the Catholic League, I have never witnessed a more vicious attack on Catholicism than what appeared this week on the Showtime program, 'Penn and Teller.'" Donohue was referring to the episode, "Holier Than Thou," that aired [...]
On May 26, the Catholic League will hold a press conference at 1:30 p.m. outside the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Broadway and 46th Street in New York City. The press conference will address the vile assault on Mother Teresa that Showtime aired this week in its “Holier Than Thou” episode of Penn and Teller; Showtime is owned [...]
Bill Donohue comments on reaction to recent jokes about Pope Francis, children, and Bruce Jenner: Last night, Comedy Central aired a roast of Justin Bieber that was recorded earlier. Comedian and roast-master Jeff Ross arrived on the red carpet dressed as the pope; he was wearing a white robe, a mitre, and carried a staff with [...]
League uncovers prior contact and blackmail attempt In what must surely rank as a new low-point in television-journalism ethics, news personnel from KMOV-TV, a Viacom owned CBS affiliate station in St. Louis, hired a male prostitute and set him up in a St. Louis hotel and proceeded to tape an encounter with a priest from the [...]
As Viacom's flagship holding, CBS bears corporate responsibility for the outrageous "Penn and Teller" episode that was aired on Showtime attacking Mother Teresa. This was not a parody—it was hate speech. Portraying Mother Teresa as a person who plundered the poor was sick enough, but calling her "Mother F—king Teresa" was a kick in the face, [...]
Comedy Central re-ran the "South Park" episode "Bloody Mary" on August 2. Comedy Central officials had previously said the episode would not air again. On December 29, 2005, we received a phone call from Tony Fox, the executive vice president for corporate communications at Comedy Central, informing us that there were no plans to rerun "Bloody [...]
