Thursday, May 26, 2005

Donahue of Catholic League alerts Catholics: "Penn and Teller" episode "Holier Than Thou" slanders Mother Teresa

The "Catholic League" is, in their words, "the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization" [that] "defends the right of Catholics – lay and clergy alike – to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination."

Dr. Donahue, its President, has issued a press release about the highly offensive episode.

Along with the actions of the Catholic League, hopefully, such a bigoted and mean-spirited character assassination of Mother Teresa will elicit outrage from the general public. Let's pray that public outcry will be effective in notifying Viacom to stop development of such offensive productions in the future.

Newsmax.com
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 4:45 p.m. EDT

Viacom's Showtime Slanders Mother Teresa

When shareholders of media conglomerate Viacom show up for their annual meeting tomorrow, they'll face the wrath of Catholic League President Dr. William Donahue over a shocking Showtime episode that slandered the late Mother Teresa and her order of nuns in the vilest of terms.

According to Donahue, who plans a press conference in front of the hotel in New York City where the Viacom meeting is being held, an episode of Showtime's Penn and Teller show "Holier Than Thou” was a "Nazi-like assault on Catholicism, and on the person the show calls..."

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