APOLOGY ACCEPTED

Catholic League member Michael Barnes of Spearfish, South Dakota, didn’t appreciate the humor of a local writer and let him know it. Harlan Schmidt of the Black Hills Pioneer derided the Eucharist when he offered the quip, “The local Lutherans and Catholic merge. For communion they serve lutefisk and corned beef.” Barnes immediately... [Read more...]

CALL OFF THE HUNT

The Catholic League takes no position on animal rights, though we do observe that the more proper term is animal welfare; only humans possess the rational faculties upon which moral judgments can be made, and are therefore alone in their rightful possession of rights. In any event, we do take a position on bigotry, hence our interest on commentating... [Read more...]

CATHOLIC CHURCHES VANDALIZED

When parishioners at Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa, Oklahoma recently went to Mass, they found profanity, swastikas and anti-Catholic messages deeply embedded on the front door. Vandals also wreaked havoc at cemeteries churches in three small western Kansas communities near Hays. Figures of Christ were smashed to smithereens, headstones were broken,... [Read more...]

CATHOLIC T-SHIRT GETS OK

Students in Sante Fe, New Mexico who wear a T-shirt with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on it can wear them again without fear of punishment. The hero in this debate proved to be Archbishop Michael Sheehan. This spring, public school officials in Sante Fe apologized for prohibiting students from wearing the Catholic T-shirt and have more recently... [Read more...]

DONOHUE ON “FIRING LINE”

PBS will soon air a recently taped special two-hour edition of “Firing Line” that featured a debate over the question, “Is the ACLU Full of Baloney?” On one side was William F. Buckley, Jr., William Donohue, Lino Graglia and Robert Knight. The ACLU side was represented by Ira Glasser, Nadine Stroessen, Leon Botstein and Barry... [Read more...]

DON’T PULL THE PLUG

Christopher Reeves, the “Superman” character who wound up paralyzed after being thrown from a horse, is lucky his mother didn’t get her way. Had she done so, he wouldn’t be alive today. Reeves explains in his book, Still Me, that his mother wanted him dead rather than suffer pain. “She became distraught and began arguing strenuously... [Read more...]

THE EISNER AND IGER TAG TEAM

Disney’s top executive, Michael Eisner, along with ABC’s president Robert Iger, are hearing a lot from Catholics these days, the results of which are quite interesting. This spring, Eisner nixed a deal between Disney and Warner Brothers (WB) because of the seamy past of a young actor. Disney had pledged to produce “Zoe Bean,” a teen... [Read more...]

FIEGER, KEVORKIAN’S LAWYER, UNFIT TO GOVERN

Geoffrey Fieger, attorney to suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian, is running for governor in Michigan. Over the past few years, Fieger and his client—from whom he has never distanced himself—have not just disagreed with the Catholic Church’s teachings on life issues, they have attacked and disparaged Roman Catholicism. Consequently, the Catholic League... [Read more...]

“GAY JESUS” COMING TO BROADWAY

This fall, the Manhattan Theatre Club is scheduled to produce a Terrence McNally play, “Corpus Christi,” that makes reference to Jesus having sex with the twelve apostles. When the Catholic League learned of this play, it immediately voiced its objections; its news release was picked up by newspapers across the country. This, in turn, led... [Read more...]

IN DEFENSE OF PIUS XII — AGAIN!

by Sister Margherita Marchione With the issuance of the Vatican document, “We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah,” voices adversely judging Pope Pius XII’s alleged “silence” have increased. Some writers are igniting flames of hatred by claiming that the Catholic Church is responsible for the Holocaust. The evidence is overwhelmingly... [Read more...]

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