Monthly Archives: April 2002

GO JOEL!

By |2013-07-18T20:49:18-04:00April 23rd, 2002|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Last month we ran a story on our protest of the movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights. It features a young Catholic who gives up sex for Lent and is tempted by his ex-girlfriend. When it opened March 1, most reviewers hammered it for being a lousy flick. A few brave souls slammed it for being anti-Catholic [...]

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NEW YORK POLITICIANS SNUB CATHOLICS

By |2013-07-18T20:49:04-04:00April 23rd, 2002|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

New York gubernatorial hopefuls Andrew Cuomo and Carl McCall refused to march in New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, saying they would only participate when members of a gay group are allowed to march under their own banner. Senator Charles Schumer, who has skipped the parade since the flap with the gay group began, also [...]

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BILL MAHER IS OUT OF CONTROL: ABC OFFICIALS ASKED TO INTERVENE

By |2019-09-24T14:22:55-04:00April 23rd, 2002|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Within the space of 48 hours, Bill Maher attacked Catholic priests in a way the Ku Klux Klan couldn’t match. On March 6, on "Politically Correct with Bill Maher," comedian Jimmy Kimmel mocked the Immaculate Conception by saying, "God has a penis." When the audience reacted with nervous laughter, Kimmel offered, "Oh, like He doesn’t? How [...]

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CBS AVERTS BIGGEST BOYCOTT IN HISTORY

By |2013-07-18T20:46:32-04:00April 23rd, 2002|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

When The Drudge Report website reported that CBS was giving serious consideration to replacing David Letterman with Howard Stern, we immediately responded with a threat to boycott the show’s sponsors. William Donohue told the media on March 6, "CBS is out of its mind if it thinks it can get away with moving Howard Stern into [...]

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H.W. Crocker: Triumph

By |2020-11-24T14:06:37-05:00April 19th, 2002|Categories: Book Reviews, White Papers and Essays|

by Russell Shaw (book review, Catalyst 4/2002) In the last several years the culture war against the Catholic Church has been extended to a new battleground—the writing of history. It is not the first time this has happened, since it has long been known that he who gets to tell the story of the past his [...]

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MICHIGAN STATE CARTOON SPEWS BIGOTRY

By |2012-10-12T20:29:37-04:00April 18th, 2002|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

A cartoon in today’s edition of The State News, the student newspaper of Michigan State University, shows two priests interacting.  One priest asks, “Why are you so happy?” and the other is shown walking away with a newspaper that reads, “Supreme Court Strikes Down Part of Child Pornography Act.” Catholic League president William Donohue responded as follows: [...]

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U.S. SUPREME COURT CONTRIBUTES TO CULTURAL SCHIZOPHRENIA OVER CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

By |2017-03-20T17:56:49-04:00April 16th, 2002|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

The United States Supreme Court today struck down a law banning virtual child pornography.  It held that previous rulings prohibiting child pornography applied only to real children and not to images that merely appear to depict children engaged in sex.  Both the Clinton and the Bush administrations worked to defend the law that was struck down [...]

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NEW YORK’S NEWEST NEWSPAPER, THE SUN, STUMBLES OUT OF THE GATE

By |2012-10-12T20:29:44-04:00April 16th, 2002|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

On the top right corner of New York’s latest newspaper, The Sun, there is a picture of Our Lady of La Leche, the Virgin Mary breastfeeding baby Jesus.  The caption beside the Madonna and child reads, “THE LAND OF MILK AND MOMMY.  A visit to the Upper Breast Side, NYC’s breastfeeding boutique, page 16.”  The story is [...]

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AS CARDINALS PREPARE TO GATHER IN ROME: BEWARE OF WILD EXPECTATIONS

By |2017-03-20T17:56:49-04:00April 16th, 2002|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

The summoning of U.S. cardinals to Rome next week has led to an outburst of highly questionable predictions regarding the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.  Addressing this issue today is Catholic League president William Donohue: “The cardinals haven’t arrived in Rome and already the drumbeat of wild expectations has begun.  Some are predicting that [...]

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DISSIDENCE AND DEVIANCE IN THE CHURCH: CONNECTING THE DOTS

By |2017-03-20T17:56:49-04:00April 11th, 2002|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president William Donohue commented today on the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church by examining the relationship between heterodoxy and sexual deviance.  Donohue holds a doctorate in sociology from New York University.  He has taught college courses on the family and has authored books and articles that address the subject of human sexuality.  [...]

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