Colorado Springs, Colo., Apr 11, 2008 / 02:11 am
A seminar at the Air Force Academy that had been organized to discuss religion and war removed several movie clips from its presentation after receiving complaints that the clips were anti-Catholic, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports.
A Wednesday seminar on war and religion planned to show clips from “Constantine’s Sword,” a documentary based on a book by James Carroll.
Among the complainants was the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. Catholic League President Bill Donohue in an April 8 press release called Carroll, a columnist for the Boston Globe, an “embittered ex-priest.” Donohue claimed the book on which the movie was based had been “widely discredited.”
According to The Gazette, Donohue called the documentary "a propaganda film that trashes Catholicism."