January 4 - February 5 Millburn, NJ - In the play Forever Plaid, performed at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, a bus filled with Catholic youths hits a car, killing the occupants. This incident triggered a barrage of insults aimed at the Catholic teenagers, e.g., "What a way to die--being slammed by a bus of parochial virgins." [...]
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March 12 Rochester, NY - The Rochester Democrat and Chroniclefeatured a story on the Automatic Confession Machine, which was developed by Greg Garvey of Concordia University in Montreal. The machine has a menu which includes the Ten Commandments. The machine’s assigned penance is more severe than that received at confession. Thus, a Personal Pocket Penance Assistant says the prayers [...]
March 11-12 Waukesha, WI - The $10,000 statue of St. William at St. William Catholic Church in Waukesha was vandalized when it was pushed off its pedestal sometime during the night. The head of the five-foot-statue was knocked off by the force of the fall, and the front of the statue was chipped and scratched. This was [...]
January Ypsilanti, MI - A graduate student at Eastern Michigan University was ordered to remove a crucifix that was affixed to the wall above his desk. February 7 Tinton Falls, NJ - The Monmouth Regional High School Board of Education adopted a policy that would prohibit a Christian group from displaying Bible passages on school bulletin boards. The officials [...]
October 13, 1994 - April 2, 1995 Fort Worth, TX – The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History presented an exhibit on "The History of the Bible" which included 25 Bibles dating from the 12th century to the early 19th century. It also included a video which accused the Catholic Church of trying to suppress the [...]
January Request magazine published a painting under the headline, "10 Things Jesus Christ and Michael Jackson have in Common," in which Michael Jackson was made to look like Jesus Christ, complete with halo. Among the ten things held in common were: "Oprah claims personal relationship to both;" "Suffer the little children to come unto me;" "Needed 12 [...]
Examples of anti-Catholic bigotry that appear in this report are culled from activist organizations, the arts, commercial establishments, education, government, the media and the workplace; acts of violence are also detailed. The commentary that follows will address each of these areas. But first a word about the difference between criticism of the Catholic Church and rank [...]
2/9/94 Washington, DC – The League defended Pope John Paul II against attacks by a representative of a splinter group of Seventh Day Adventists on a local radio station. The sect had been sponsoring billboards in southern states displaying a drawing of the Holy Father with the caption "Man of Sin." 2/18/94 Franklin County, VT – The Franklin [...]
January-February, 1994 New York, NY – The Whitney Museum presented a vulgar display entitles "Catholic Tastes," featuring the work of "lapsed Catholic" Mike Kelley. "Catholic Tastes" was a scatological exhibit designed to offend Catholics. The book of the same name which was included as part of the exhibit was even more revealing of Kelley’s bigotry. The exhibit [...]
