New York City, N.Y., Aug 6, 2010 / 08:24 am
The Catholic League responded to the recent statement of author Anne Rice, who in 2008 announced that she had returned to the Catholic faith, but now says she is no longer a Christian but remains “committed to Christ.”
Group president Bill Donohue called the author's rejection of Christianity a “tragedy” in remarks issued on Friday.
On her Facebook page on July 28, Rice wrote that “Today I quit being a Christian. I'm out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being ‘Christian’ or to being part of Christianity,”
The author added that it was “simply impossible” for her to belong to “this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group.”