Word: anti-catholicism
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And last week, Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard Francis Law '53 wrote in a private letter to Cellucci that he fears Marshall may hold anti-Catholic views. As Harvard's General Counsel, she admonished a Catholic professor at the law school for using Harvard stationary to voice anti-abortion sentiments.
But the battle lines are drawn. William Donohue, head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and the play's most vocal critic, disavows violence but denounces the play (which he hasn't seen or read) as anti-Catholic and a "contribution to hate-speech." The League and...
Concerning the term "monk barbecue show," Viet Nam is a strange country where people often commit spectacular suicides before the gates of people whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing what I considered...
Intellectuals sometimes take a certain ain't-we-awful pride in America's tradition of political paranoia (Know-Nothingism, anti-Catholic ravings, McCarthyism, for example). But on the whole, Americans' freedom has made them comparative innocents; dinner parties aside, Stalin may have murdered upwards of 10 million of his fellow...
In 1983 and '85, Durang's one act play, "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You," was nearly prevented from running in Boston and St. Louis. Catholic groups were offended by Durang's satirization of parochial school education and Catholic attitudes in the central character, the murderous and manipulative...