On August 13, New Line Cinema released "Detroit Rock City," a movie set in 1978 about four teenagers who go on a wild spree on their way to a KISS concert. KISS star Gene Simmons is featured in the movie and is a co-producer. It is a farcical comedy in which nearly all the characters are [...]
On July 2, the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin, began displaying an art exhibit of paintings and sculpture by Norbert Kox entitled, "To Hell and Back." It features the following: a) the Virgin Mary depicted as the "Great Harlot" b) Christ labeled the "Son of Perdition" c) God the Father represented as a monster [...]
Maybe some day we will have a staff commensurate to the volume of work we have to investigate. But for right now, we can only do our best. Here’s an example. We got an anonymous letter from two admitted Protestants about a play they saw that struck them as profoundly anti-Catholic. "Confessional" is a one-act play [...]
Some expressions of bias are of the flagrant, in-your-face type, what can be called the hard-core version. Others are not so noticeable—they are more of the soft-core variety. But both are a problem, and while the latter may not be as offensive, in many ways it is more insidious. It certainly is more difficult to combat. [...]
As the reputation of the Catholic League grows, so, too, do attempts to bait us. Two recent examples are worth noting. In a review of Spike Lee’s movie, "Summer of Sam" (based on the story of the New York killer, Son of Sam), film critic John Anderson described elements of the movie that seemed to promote [...]
On the north side of Chicago, in Wrigleyville, there is fetish lingerie store called Taboo-Tabou. Located in the "Alternative Shopping Complex" (a red flag for sure), the kinky establishment featured a mannequin dressed as a nun (in full habit) spanking a naked woman. A woman from Chicago obtained pictures of this "art." The naked woman had [...]
On June 23, the Catholic League ran an op-ed page ad in the New York Times that called on Disney to dump Miramax, its anti-Catholic subsidiary, the same way it dumped "Dogma." In the ad, reference was made to Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the co-chiefs at Miramax who purchased the film after Michael Eisner of Disney put the [...]
One of the more prestigious schools in the nation’s capital is the National Cathedral School. Not too long ago, the expensive Protestant prep school threw its Third Annual Celebration Dinner. Unfortunately, the participants couldn’t resist showing off their anti-Catholic bigotry. The hosts of the event, as well as some of the guests, decided to dress as [...]
Monique Dostie runs a group home for the mentally retarded in Lewiston, Maine. Her house rules include a prohibition on pornography and sexual activity, a condition that none of her residents object to. Indeed, some of their guardians deliberately chose to put them in Dostie’s home because they liked her house rules. But the bureaucrats thinks [...]
Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) wouldn’t exist were it not for the anti-Catholic bigots at the Ford Foundation and other centers of Catholic bashing in the philanthropic world. Whenever CFFC gets money dumped on it, new positions become available. That is why over the summer CFFC was advertising for a Director of International Programs, Director [...]
