The Catholic League recently learned of two anti-Catholic lectures that were scheduled at Pierce Community College in Los Angeles as part of the Encore/Oasis continuing education program. A lecture titled “The Sex Lives of the Popes” was scheduled for August 5, while “Crime and Immorality in the Catholic Church” was to take place August 12. Both [...]
The August edition of Jane magazine—out on newsstands this week—features a satirical article about how people can use the same tactics as pedophile priests to have casual sex. Titled, “How to get laid like a priest,” the article contains a disclaimer that asserts it is targeting only pedophile priests, not the Church in general. The accompanying photographs show [...]
Comedy Central has been promoting tomorrow night’s episode of “South Park” for over a week. It boasts that this is one “the Catholic Church doesn’t want you to see.” The show will target the sex abuse scandal in the Church. A promo for the show has a bishop, standing in front of the pope, complaining, “we’ll [...]
The Pope Pius XII Controversy A Review-Article By Kenneth D. Whitehead (The Political Science Reviewer, Volume XXXI, 2002) I. One of the most remarkable of phenomena in recent years has been the revival of the controversy over the role of Pope Pius XII during the Second World War, and, specifically, over that pontiff's stance with regard [...]
