Protest Corpus Christi at Indiana University

Like most productions considered blasphemous, the scheduled showing of the play Corpus Christi at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) on August 10-11, is dividing the local community.

Members of the local community are lodging their protests to Chancellor Michael Wartell who has refused to reconsider. Five state senators have taken issue with the production at a state university and five northeastern Indiana House representatives presented a similar petition in which they termed the play "outrageous and disgraceful."

According to Fort Wayne's The Journal Gazette, the play "is about growing up gay in a Texas Gulf Coast town. It includes a gay Christ-like figure named Joshua and 12 other characters, most of whom bear the names of Christ's disciples." (The Journal Gazette, May 4, 2001)

A group of outraged Christians has even threatened to take IPFW to federal court if the university holds the student-financed production on campus facilities.

"It does not matter where it is shown," says America Needs Fatima director Robert E. Ritchie. "The very fact that it is staged is an offense to Our Lord Jesus Christ and Catholics nationwide should peacefully protest."

From the time that Terry McNally's Corpus Christi debuted at the Manhattan Theater Club in 1998, thousands of Catholics have raised their voices in protest. On that occasion, the American TFP and its affiliate campaign America Needs Fatima held a protest of reparation at the play's debut in New York. America Needs Fatima proclaimers distributed millions of protest flyers nationwide.

You are now called to defend Jesus' honor by sending your email protest to the university chancellor of IFPW.

Contact or send your email to:

Chancellor Michael Wartell
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499

Telephone: 219-481-6103

Email: wartell@ipfw.edu

We also ask you to:

1. Send this message to as many friends as you can -- ASAP!
2. Email a protest postcard to Michael Wartell by clicking here.
3. Pray to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in reparation.