Monthly Archives: June 1996

PENTAGON SEEKS TO GAG SPEECH OF CATHOLICS

By |2014-06-06T20:15:19-04:00June 28th, 1996|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

In an unusual move, the Pentagon is seeking to muzzle the free speech of Roman Catholics. At issue is whether Catholics in the Air Force can participate in an appeal by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) to protest President Clinton's veto of the bill banning partial birth abortions.  The NCCB has asked Catholics to [...]

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GAY PRIDE PARADE SHOULD BEGIN BELOW CATHEDRAL

By |2021-08-27T10:31:23-04:00June 26th, 1996|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

On June 30, New York's annual Gay Pride Parade will take place on Fifth Avenue beginning at noon. The starting point of the parade is just above St. Patrick's Cathedral at 52d Street and 5th Avenue. Repeated attempts by the Catholic League to request that the Giuliani administration prevail upon the gay leadership to start the [...]

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SPIN MAGAZINE FEATURES CATHOLIC BASHING ARTICLE

By |2017-03-20T17:58:56-04:00June 20th, 1996|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Spin, a pop culture magazine published by Bob Guccione, Jr., features in its July edition one of the most decidedly anti-Catholic articles to have appeared anywhere in some time. “Sin City” is written by someone called Eurydice (who allegedly traveled to the Vatican for her story), and it is replete with every Catholic bashing epithet imaginable. [...]

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CATHOLICISM LAMBASTED IN “MARTHA STUART PARODY”

By |2017-03-20T17:58:56-04:00June 19th, 1996|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

In their second book of parodies caricaturing the work of Martha Stewart, Tom Connor and Jim Downey have lashed out at Catholicism.   Entitled Martha Stuart’s better than you at Entertaining, the book introduces readers to “Our Lady of Perpetual Gilt,” “His Holiness Pope John Paul George,” and offers menus for “Circumcision Day” and “All Soul’s Day”; [...]

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CHURCH BURNINGS SUGGEST MORE THAN RACIAL PREJUDICE

By |2017-03-20T17:58:56-04:00June 13th, 1996|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), there have been 123 church fires occurring in 27 states from coast to coast over the past five years.  Of the 123, 38 of the fires have been at black churches.  Now satanic markings have been found on a North Carolina sanctuary before it was burned, [...]

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HBO OFFERS TABLOID LOOK AT CATHOLIC CHURCH

By |2017-03-20T17:58:56-04:00June 12th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Front Page|Tags: |

On May 6, Home Box Office aired Priestly Sins: Sex and the Catholic Church. The one hour special focused on the issue of sexual abuse in the priesthood. We were told that the problem is one of "epic" proportions and that the root cause is celibacy. The Catholic League issued the following news release on the film [...]

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WE’RE “PARANOID”

By |2012-06-12T15:57:17-04:00June 12th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Front Page|Tags: |

The New Republic, one of Washington’s favorite liberal weeklies, doesn’t like the Catholic League’s Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism. We thought you’d like to know what we had to say in reply, so here is the text of the letter we sent to the editor: "In your ‘Notebook’ editorial of April 22, you criticize the Catholic League for [...]

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HUMOR AND BAD TASTE RECONSIDERED

By |2017-03-20T17:59:07-04:00June 12th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

There has always been humor and bad taste. Unfortunately, we not only have more bad taste than humor these days, we have a blurring of the lines between the two. To be exact, we have become so accustomed to bad taste that much of it frequently passes as humor. Lots of people don’t like Bill and [...]

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THE GREAT NATIONAL RESOURCE — RELIGION

By |2017-03-20T17:59:07-04:00June 12th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

by Russell Shaw Is religion a national asset? George Washington certainly thought so. "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports...firmest props of the duties of men and citizens," Washington famously declared in his presidential farewell address in 1796. Lately, though, what looked so clear to Washington [...]

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THE EASTER BUNNY BLUES

By |2017-03-20T17:59:07-04:00June 12th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

by Kathleen McCreary Does anyone think that the Easter Bunny and his cheerful basket full of colored eggs pose a threat to the hallowed principle of separation of church and state? Apparently so, for last year the Scarsdale, N.Y. Board of Education refused to allow distribution of flyers announcing the annual "Easter Eggstravaganza" in its five [...]

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