Yesterday evening, Bill Donohue held a press conference protesting the Andres Serrano “Piss Christ” display at the Edward Tyler Nahem gallery; the gallery is located on the second floor of a building at 37 W. 57th Street in New York City. He now responds to what the gallery is telling the media: The gallery is saying [...]
Bill Donohue comments as follows: Last evening, I held a press conference outside the Edward Tyler Nahem gallery in New York City protesting the Andres Serrano exhibit featuring “Piss Christ.” After talking to the media, I attempted to enter the gallery; it is on the second floor of a building at 37 W. 57th Street. When [...]
Bill Donohue comments as follows: In the Arts section of today’s New York Times, there is a discussion about the shock value of art. Roberta Smith, co-chief art critic for the Times, cites the “Holy Virgin Mary” portrait that was displayed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1999 as one that offended “the tender sensibilities” [...]
To see the video of Bill Donohue replying to Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ,” click here. The Serrano “art” will be featured at the Edward Tyler Nahem gallery from September 27 to October 26. The Catholic League will hold a press conference on September 27 outside the Nahem gallery at 37 W. 57th Street, New York City [...]
Bill Donohue comments as follows: Last Sunday, homosexuals paraded around naked in the streets of San Francisco at the annual Folsom Street Fair. There were no arrests. They did more than walk the streets nude—they beat each other with whips. The leather/fetish homosexuals led each other around like dogs with metal collars; they set up booths [...]
Who: Catholic League Staff When: Thursday, September 27, 5:30 p.m. Where: Outside Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery, 37 W. 57th St., New York City Why: To protest Andres Serrano Exhibit featuring “Piss Christ”
Bill Donohue comments as follows: On September 27, the Edward Tyler Nahem gallery in mid-town Manhattan will host an exhibit, “Body and Spirit: Andres Serrano 1987-2012,” that features Serrano’s “Piss Christ” piece; it shows a crucifix submerged in a jar of his own urine. The exhibit ends October 26. Serrano has said that “Piss Christ” was [...]
Bill Donohue comments on today’s editorial in the New York Times taking a New York City Catholic priest to task: A priest puts a letter written by six former U.S. ambassadors to the Vatican in a church bulletin supporting Romney and the alarms go off. But it was not the parishioners who sounded the alarm: it [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a petition drive against a New York City Catholic priest accused of promoting Mitt Romney for president: Two weeks ago, in the weekly bulletin of an Upper East side Catholic church, there was a letter by six former U.S. ambassadors to the Vatican stating their support for Romney. The priest responsible for [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the contention by Harvard professor Karen King that Jesus once remarked, “My wife”: The evidence that Jesus had a wife can be ascertained by using a magnifying glass to read a 3.8 x 7.6 centimeter inscription made on a scrap of papyrus. We know nothing about when the scrap was discovered. We [...]
