The Cardinal Newman Society’s 2006 campaign to stop “The Vagina Monologues” performances and public readings on Catholic campuses across the United States was a success. A then-record-low 22 Catholic colleges and universities hosted the “Monologues” in February and March, a significant decline from 27 performances or readings in 2005, 29 in 2004, and 32 in 2003.

Each year around Valentine’s Day—re-designated “V-Day” by the radical V-Day organization—students and faculty on campuses worldwide take to the stage chanting obscenities, telling tales of lesbian activity and masturbation, and declaring the lesbian rape of a teenage girl her “salvation” which raised her into “a kind of heaven.” Since 2003 the Cardinal Newman Society has rallied its more than 20,000 members to oppose the play on American Catholic campuses by writing and e-mailing college and university presidents.

As you will see on this page, our campaign is working and we are reclaiming Catholic campuses for Catholic values one school at a time!

In 2007, CNS added a new dimension to its campaign -- we actively recruited students on Catholic campuses to host alternative programs that promoted Catholic values of love and sexual ethics.