ENTERTAINMENT
January 30, 1987 | Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press
About 20 Roman Catholic protesters demonstrated outside CBS' Chicago office late Wednesday charging the network was "Catholic baiting" when it aired "Broken Vows" Wednesday. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights said the TV movie was a "cheap movie that smears the Catholic religion." The film, starring Tommy Lee Jones, concerns a priest who falls in love with a woman and breaks his vow of celibacy.
ENTERTAINMENT
June 2, 2001
The fact that Steven Linan found "Sister Mary Explains It All" "satisfying" says a lot about our culture's willingness to tolerate anti-Catholicism (" 'Sister Mary' Gets Your Attention," May 26). The play on which the Showtime film is based has been called "the most virulently anti-Catholic play in American theater" (Dallas Morning News review, 1998) and a play that "goes after the Catholic Church with a vengeance" (Frank Rich, New York Times, 1981). One wonders whether a movie that attacked another faith would have ever seen the light of day on Showtime or anywhere else.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 16, 2001
Re Lawrence Tonsick's Feb. 12 letter, "Church Tax Exemption": A Newport Beach Catholic and Presbyterian church working together so that they may both expand their facilities for worship and social services somehow prompts him to say that their tax-exempt status should be revoked. Where is the connection here? If a church can afford it, it has every right to expand. And 10% of what it raises is going to social charities. What is this "new religious clubhouse" that it is building? It is a new school to educate children because the old one is overcrowded.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 5, 2000
Once again, someone uses the tired argument that the Catholic Church wants lax immigration because it is only interested in raising more money (letter, Nov. 27). If the new immigrants need food and shelter provided to them, where is the money they will give to the church? The bishops of the Catholic Church in the U.S. are interested in the human dignity and well-being of all people, regardless of race and nationality. Without the hospitals, schools and social programs provided by the Catholic Church in Los Angeles and all over the country, the immigrant situation would be worse still.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 16, 1986
Paul Conrad suggests in his cartoon (Aug. 24) that Pope John Paul II, in firing Father Charles Curran of Catholic University of America, has shut the windows of the Catholic Church opened up by Pope John XXIII. Yet is is hardly clear that John XXIII wanted to open windows in order to throw out the Ten Commandments. If the Vatican permits Curran to teach in the name of the church, it puts an implicit stamp of approval on infanticide, sodomy or masturbation--activities that Curran seems to think are acceptable.
NEWS
April 11, 1995 | from Associated Press
A New Yorker cover depicting a business-suited Easter Bunny crucified on a tax form has upset some Christians. William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said Monday that the illustration is insulting to Christians and "particularly outrageous" during the week leading up to Easter Sunday. The illustration by cartoonist Art Spiegelman on the Monday issue that went on sale this week shows a white rabbit in a suit and tie.