Monthly Archives: December 1998

SELF-DECEIVING ARTISTS

By |2017-03-20T17:57:59-04:00December 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

What is it about artists? Do they really believe their own lies? Consider two recent cases, one from North Carolina, the other from Michigan. In the October Catalyst, we cited an art exhibition at the Ackland Art Museum of the University of North Carolina that merited a Catholic League response. Artist Duane Michals’ contribution to art was [...]

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“OZZFEST” SHIRT DROPPED

By |2017-03-20T17:57:59-04:00December 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In the October Catalyst, we remarked how the vile rock performer, Ozzy Osbourne, was marketing his "Ozzfest ’98" T-shirt. On the front of the shirt there is a demonized image of the Virgin Mary, surrounded by a collection of equally demonic characters, including a priest, a monk and angels. We wrote to Dell Furano, president and CEO [...]

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HE WHO LAUGHS FIRST, LAUGHS LAST

By |2017-03-20T17:57:59-04:00December 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The school staff thought it was cute. The local newspaper thought it was cute. The Catholic League didn’t, and that is why we brought the issue to the attention of the authorities. The Halloween celebrations at Tillamook High School in Tillamook, Oregon, took a different turn this year. On November 4, in the pages of the Headlight-Herald, [...]

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VOUCHER VICTORY

By |2013-11-07T20:12:49-05:00December 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

November 9 was a bad day for the enemies of choice in education: that was the day the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that found no legal problem with the Wisconsin voucher program. Because the high court did not actually rule on the merits of a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that said [...]

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PROTESTANT GROUP ATTACKS MORE THAN VOUCHERS

By |2017-03-20T17:57:59-04:00December 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In Chicago, the week of November 9-13, the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (NCC), considered a proposal that would put it on record as opposed to voucher programs or tuition-tax credits for private schools. The proposal explicitly said that "public moneys should be used only for public schools." It further stated that [...]

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ANTI-CATHOLIC BIAS AT THE NEW YORK TIMES

By |2019-09-24T16:53:53-04:00December 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In the November 2 edition of the New York Times, there were several articles about the November 3 elections. The articles were grouped according to "The Senate," "The Polls," "The Campaign" and "The Churches." With regard to the last article, coverage was given to John Cardinal O’Connor’s homily the day before wherein he questioned why some were [...]

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HORMEL SENT PACKING

By |2013-11-07T20:11:28-05:00December 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

James C. Hormel, heir to the Hormel meat-packing fortune, will not be the next U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. The Senate’s Republican leadership saw to that in October when they let Hormel’s nomination die. The Catholic League did not object to Hormel’s nomination because he is a homosexual, but we did object on grounds that he previously [...]

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IGNOBLE PRIZE

By |2013-11-07T20:11:17-05:00December 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Last year, the Nobel Prize committee gave its literary award to an Italian anti-Catholic bigot, Dario Fo. This year the committee showed its passion for diversity by bestowing the award on a Portuguese anti-Catholic bigot, Jose Saramago. Maybe next year they’ll find a Greek or Spaniard who hates Catholicism. Father Richard John Neuhaus said it nicely [...]

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The Trinity Foundation Looks at Catholicism

By |2017-03-20T17:58:00-04:00December 22nd, 1998|Categories: Miscellaneous, White Papers and Essays|

by William A. Donohue (Catalyst 12/1998) We get so much anti-Catholic literature sent to us from Protestant, mostly Evangelical, sources that it’s enough to make me wonder whether the Reformation ever ended. Some of it is just plain stupid, but there is also some pretty sophisticated stuff being published. This is not the place for a [...]

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NATIVITY SCENE TO BE ERECTED IN CENTRAL PARK

By |2012-10-18T18:55:44-04:00December 16th, 1998|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

On December 17, at 3:45 p.m., Msgr. John Woolsey will bless the Catholic League crèche in Central Park. Joining him will be the Catholic League staff. The site of the crèche is 5th Avenue and 59th Street. This is the fourth year that the Catholic League has received a permit from the Parks Department to erect a crèche [...]

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