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Protest Defeats Blasphemy at University of Virginia
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The University of Virginia’s student newspaper, *The Cavalier Daily*, finally issued a reluctant apology for printing two blasphemous cartoons against the Catholic Faith on August 23-24. A Nativity-like cartoon of Our Lady holding the Infant Jesus beside Saint Joseph was most offensive.
The figure depicting Saint Joseph said: "Mary…I don't mean to ruin this special moment, but how did you get that bumpy rash?” suggesting a sexually transmitted disease. To which a Mary-figure says, “I swear, it was Immaculately Transmitted.”
After nine days of protest, the offensive cartoon was removed from the newspaper’s online edition which coincided with the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, September 15.