Monthly Archives: June 2000

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

By |2017-03-20T17:57:24-04:00June 28th, 2000|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

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 well with those [...]

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

QUOTABLE

By |2017-03-20T17:57:24-04:00June 26th, 2000|Categories: Catalyst, Front Page|Tags: |

“NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw” 5/4/00 WILLIAM DONOHUE: (on John Cardinal O’Connor) Here is a man who gave us a moral compass, who gave us some understanding, who grounded our religion, not only in the teachings of the Church, but in common sense.  MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” 5/4/00  WILLIAM DONOHUE: (on John Cardinal O’Connor) [...]

Comments Off on QUOTABLE

THE CARDINAL O’CONNOR I KNEW

By |2017-03-20T17:57:24-04:00June 26th, 2000|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue 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 [...]

Comments Off on THE CARDINAL O’CONNOR I KNEW

POPE PIUS XII AND THE HOLOCAUST

By |2017-03-20T17:57:24-04:00June 26th, 2000|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

For nearly 20 years after World War II, Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) was honored by the world for his actions in saving countless Jewish lives in the face of the Nazi Holocaust. His death on October 9, 1958 brought a moment of silence from Leonard Bernstein while he conducted at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Golda Meir, [...]

Comments Off on POPE PIUS XII AND THE HOLOCAUST

ARE THERE ANY FEMINISTS LEFT?

By |2017-03-20T17:57:24-04:00June 26th, 2000|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

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 [...]

Comments Off on ARE THERE ANY FEMINISTS LEFT?

THE BOOK-BANNING ACLU

By |2017-03-20T17:57:24-04:00June 26th, 2000|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Ask anyone in the ACLU what he thinks of book banning and out pours a stream of invective targeted at Hitlerians.  Ironically, the ACLU is no stranger to book banning, having previously sought to ban the book Sex Respect from the schools in Wisconsin (the book teaches abstinence, ergo, the book must go—the ACLU thinks this represents a [...]

Comments Off on THE BOOK-BANNING ACLU

145 YEARS OF BIGOTRY (AND COUNTING)

By |2017-03-20T17:57:25-04:00June 26th, 2000|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

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 [...]

Comments Off on 145 YEARS OF BIGOTRY (AND COUNTING)

STILL THIS IRISH VOICE

By |2019-09-24T14:58:58-04:00June 26th, 2000|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

It used to be that Irish newspapers respected the Catholic religion.  But no more.   It has been evident for some time now that the cultural winds that engulfed this country in the 1960s are blowing wildly in the land of St. Patrick.  Worse, many of the Irish who have emigrated here display an antipathy to [...]

Comments Off on STILL THIS IRISH VOICE

WHO IS “FATHER” RASI?

By |2013-08-13T21:03:25-04:00June 26th, 2000|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

On the May 2 edition of “Larry King Live,” several guests from various religions discussed the subject of homosexuality and religion.  The Catholic representative was Father Richard Rasi.  He was introduced by Larry King as a “gay defrocked priest.” Father Rasi insisted he was still a priest in good standing, did not dispute the gay characterization [...]

Comments Off on WHO IS “FATHER” RASI?

CNN’S IDEA OF FAIRNESS

By |2017-03-20T17:57:25-04:00June 26th, 2000|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

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 the [...]

Comments Off on CNN’S IDEA OF FAIRNESS

Title

Go to Top