Writers for late night talk-show hosts are obsessed with Catholicism, especially those who worked for David Letterman. Generally speaking, Conan O'Brien has been fair; Seth Meyers less so. Both of them offered jokes about Catholicism and women in their recent outing. "New pope doing everything he can to modernize the church," said O'Brien. "That's what I [...]
During a recent episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO, Maher lashed out at Pope Francis and Jesus in a particularly vulgar way. While discussing the Armenian genocide, Maher said, "You know who said it's a genocide? The pope. The pope was like f*** yeah it's a genocide. The pope has huge balls. You [...]
On a recent episode of the CBS show, "The Insider," there was a discussion involving Joy Behar about the man/woman Bruce Jenner. Here is what Behar said: "I'm not going to do a stand-up about transgenders. It's too sensitive a topic." The next day on the ABC show known as "The View," a guest host mentioned [...]
Last month, the final episode of "Late Night with David Letterman" aired on CBS. Below is a sampling of host David Letterman's history of Catholic bashing excerpted from Catholic League press releases. "WHAT COUNTS AS OFFENSIVE?" 4/22/2015 David Letterman warmed up his audience by making a joke about women. He said, "Treat a lady like a [...]
Rick Hinshaw George J. Marlin, Christian Persecutions in the Middle East: A 21st Century Tragedy (South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, 2015) Bombarded as we are by daily news reports, we probably feel we know all we need to know about the unspeakable crimes being perpetrated virtually every day against innocent people – primarily Christians – [...]
