This one was bound to piss A LOT of people off.

Yesterday, we reported that Susan Sarandon made a comment at last weekends' Hamptons Film Festival, in which she described the current Pope as being a "Nazi," and then said it AGAIN for emphasis.

Now, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is coming after Susan and asking that she apologize.

Here's what the National Director of the ADL Abraham H. Foxman had to say about it:

"[Her] comment is obscene. Sadly, it’s what we’ve come to expect from her."

"We hope that Susan Sarandon will have the good sense to apologize to the Catholic community and all those she may have offended with this disturbing, deeply offensive and completely uncalled for attack on the good name of Pope Benedict XVI."

"Ms. Sarandon may have her differences with the Catholic Church, but that is no excuse for throwing around Nazi analogies. Such words are hateful, vindictive and only serve to diminish the true history and meaning of the Holocaust."

And here's more from president of the Catholic League of America William Donohue:

"Susan Sarandon’s ignorance is willful: those who have hatred in their veins are not interested in the truth. The fact (Read more...)

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