COURT OKAYS AID TO PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS LEAGUE FILED AMICUS BRIEF IN SUCCESSFUL CASE

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that taxpayer money could be used to buy computers and other instructional aids for private and parochial schools. Catholic League president William Donohue commented as follows: “The news that parochial schools cannot be discriminated against in the distribution of public funds for computer technology does not sit... [Read more...]

145 YEARS OF BIGOTRY (AND COUNTING)

Anti-Catholic legislation was passed 145 years ago in Massachusetts to stop state aid from ever reaching parochial schools; other states passed similar laws at the time and have yet to rescind them.  It was the infamous Know-Nothing Party that proposed this legislation in 1855.  It’s still on the books today (in the form of an amendment to the state... [Read more...]

ARE THERE ANY FEMINISTS LEFT?

That a woman has a right to do what she wants with her own body is a mantra that feminists have been uttering for the past three decades.  One would think, then, that if a man were to mutilate a woman’s body that feminists everywhere would rush to her side.  And if the man were also a doctor, the outcry, we would expect, would be all the more shrill. ... [Read more...]

THE CARDINAL O’CONNOR I KNEW

It was Sunday, October 3, 1993, and I had been on the job for just three months.  That afternoon, I went for a walk in mid-town Manhattan and stumbled upon a street fair.   The hot sausage was great and so was the beer.  Then I heard some music coming from 5th Avenue, so I walked up the block to see what was going on.   It was the Polish American... [Read more...]

CNN’S IDEA OF FAIRNESS

The one exception to the respectful coverage of the death of John Cardinal O’Connor came from CNN.  One hour before the funeral Mass on May 8,  CNN interviewed three notables about the cardinal’s life.   Former New York Senator Alfonse D’Amato praised the cardinal for his work, drawing special attention to Cardinal O’Connor’s concern for... [Read more...]

COLLEGES TO AVOID

John Leo broke the story but we felt it was necessary to follow up.  Here’s the bottom line: don’t send your kid to Tufts, Middlebury, Grinnell or Whitman. All four colleges are now on record banning religious groups from denying leadership positions in student clubs to practicing homosexuals.  The radical gay agenda on college campuses is already... [Read more...]

eBay JUMPS THE GUN

The online auction site eBay jumped the gun by hawking memorabilia of John Cardinal O’Connor the minute it was learned that he died.  When contacted by the press, William Donohue said “It’s in very poor taste.  They should have at least had the decency to wait until after the funeral.”  He went on to say that “This is a cheap exploitive... [Read more...]

GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS

There is medicine for those who can’t separate fantasy from reality but there’s no cure when it’s self-induced.  Consider two public persons, neither of whom is unaccustomed to making publicly embarrassing statements: tennis champ Martina Navratilova and Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong. Navratilova was recently interviewed by CNN about gay... [Read more...]

HOST TO ANTI-CATHOLIC PLAY RECEIVES FEDERAL FUNDS

From April 26 to May 21, the Irondale Ensemble Project performed the anti-Catholic play, “The Pope and The Witch,” at the Theater for the New City in New York’s East Village. Written by the 1997 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Dario Fo, the play has been characterized by Newsday as involving “a heroin-addicted, paranoid Pope called... [Read more...]

LOGO MUST GO

People Express Inc., which is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, offers chauffeured transportation services.  That’s all fine and good, but its logo must go.  Pictured next to its name is a symbol that is virtually indistinguishable from the Chi-Rho, the Greek letters that represent Christ’s name. We have contacted the president, Robert Ortega,... [Read more...]

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