AMBASSADOR NOMINEE CHALLENGED

The Catholic League has asked the U.S. Senate not to confirm James Hormel as U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. The league’s objections to President Clinton’s nominee stem from Hormel’s role in the 1996 San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade. Providing commentary on the parade on KOFY-TV, Hormel gave his tacit endorsement to... [Read more...]

BIGOTRY TARS TWO NEW YORK STATE CAMPUSES

For the past few months, the Catholic League has been involved in an on-going battle over anti-religious bigotry that took place on two campuses of the State University of New York (SUNY). A satisfactory resolution to this matter was reached with the Stony Brook campus of SUNY, but not with the New Paltz campus. In November, SUNY-New Paltz hosted a... [Read more...]

BRIEF FILED AGAINST YALE

The Catholic League has filed an amicus brief on behalf of Orthodox Jewish students at Yale University who have had their religious liberties abridged. The league’s brief, prepared by William Bentley Ball, was recently filed in United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Yale contends that it has a right to force freshman and sophomore... [Read more...]

THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE AT 25 (1973-1998)

On April 16, the Catholic League will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a dinner at The Plaza in New York City (see p. 7 for the details). There is much to celebrate, as well as much to focus on down the road. Were it not for Virgil C. Blum, S.J., there would be no Catholic League. The founder of the Catholic League, Father Blum was a Marquette University... [Read more...]

DECEIT UNMASKED

An editorial in the Asbury Park Press struck the Catholic League as deceitful and that is why the incident did not go unchallenged. The New Jersey newspaper was good enough to print a letter registering our complaint. To the average reader, the editorial in question sounded reasonable enough. TheAsbury Park Press was taking issue with a decision... [Read more...]

DESIGNER DRAWS FIRE

Dolce & Gabbana, the famous women’s designer, is advertising a skirt for its spring collection that the league finds highly objectionable. The apparel is a long silk skirt with an big embroidery of Madonna and Child; Mary’s head provocatively appears in the pelvic area. The league has asked Dolce & Gabbana to rethink its decision to market... [Read more...]

DONOHUE ACCEPTS APOLOGY

In a Pasadena press conference on January 14, “Nothing Sacred” writer Rev. Bill Cain, S.J. suggested that William Donohue was anti-Semitic. He said the Catholic League president questioned “the right of David Manson and Richard Kramer [the show’s co-executive producers] to work on the show because they were Jewish, and the smear... [Read more...]

EASTER SURPRISE BY FAMILIAR SOURCES

Ever since a group of “doubting Thomas theologians” formed the Jesus Seminar, it has become commonplace for pundits to subvert the meaning of Easter. This year the attack will be led by ABC, PBS, BBC and Twentieth Century FOX. ABC anchorman Peter Jennings promises that he will offer “a reasonably controversial broadcast” on the... [Read more...]

FCC COMPLAINT FILED

For the past few years, the San Diego chapter of the Catholic League has been in a battle with a local radio program, the “Dave, Shelly & Chainsaw Show.” The league’s central complaint, as stated by chapter president Carl Horst, is that the “Lash Wednesday” segment of the show is blasphemous: it invites listeners to “confess”... [Read more...]

HOLLYWOOD’S BELIEVERS

From the work of Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman in the 1980s, we know that the majority of those who make our movies are agnostics or atheists (55% believe in nothing, compared to 6% in the general population). What we know less about is the thinking of those in Hollywood who are believers. Recent interviews with Martha Williamson and Martin Scorsese... [Read more...]

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