Monthly Archives: July 2004

AMERICANS UNITED ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE BISHOPS

By |2017-03-20T17:55:58-04:00July 21st, 2004|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State recently sent a letter to the IRS asking the agency to investigate what he termed "electioneering" by the Diocese of Colorado Springs. Referring to Bishop Michael Sheridan's pastoral letter about politicians receiving Communion, Lynn accused him of using "code language that says 'Re-elect Bush and [...]

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DURBIN’S SCORECARD GETS AN “F”

By |2019-09-23T20:47:10-04:00July 21st, 2004|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

On June 2, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois released a report, "Evaluating the Votes and Actions of Public Officials from a Catholic Perspective," which ranked the twenty-four U.S. Catholic senators based on their votes in three areas: domestic, international and pro-life. The issues were taken from a publication issued by the United States Conference of Catholic [...]

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CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS REBUKE BISHOPS

By |2013-06-25T18:32:33-04:00July 21st, 2004|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In late May, forty-eight Democratic congressmen signed a letter to Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., taking issue with those bishops who have said that Catholic lawmakers should be denied Communion if they champion abortion rights. The Democratic congressmen who signed the letter, almost all of whom are pro-abortion, admonished the nation's bishops not to [...]

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“SAVED!” TRIES TO SMEAR CHRISTIANS

By |2017-03-20T17:55:58-04:00July 21st, 2004|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The MGM movie "Saved!" opened at select theaters on May 28. It was billed as a "sweetly subversive comedy" about an evangelical Christian high school. More accurately, it was an attempt to smear Christians. The film features a Christian teenager who gets pregnant while attempting to reorient her homosexual friend; this follows a vision she has [...]

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STEM CELL ISSUE REACHES A HOT POINT

By |2017-03-20T17:55:58-04:00July 21st, 2004|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The day before former President Ronald Reagan died, 58 senators sent a letter to President George W. Bush urging him to permit embryonic stem cell research. The senators were now insisting that with the death of President Reagan, the issue took on greater urgency. They cited the support that Nancy Reagan has shown for this type [...]

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PLAYING FAST AND LOOSE WITH THEOLOGY

By |2017-03-20T17:55:59-04:00July 21st, 2004|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Recently, an article by E. Michael Jones in the February 2004 edition of his magazine, Culture Wars, came to our attention. What begins as a review of Roy Schoeman's book, Salvation Is From the Jews, ends up as an anti-Semitic rant playing fast and loose with Catholic theology. It should be unequivocally condemned. The first important point to [...]

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MARRIAGE AMENDMENT NEEDED

By |2017-03-20T17:55:59-04:00July 21st, 2004|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

When asked on June 25 whether the Catholic League would sign a statement of support for a Federal Marriage Amendment, league president William Donohue quickly did so. In doing so, the Catholic League agrees with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops that nothing less than a constitutional amendment can stave off the radical gay rights [...]

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“I’M PERSONALLY OPPOSED, BUT….”

By |2017-03-20T17:55:59-04:00July 21st, 2004|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Beginning with New York Governor Mario Cuomo, literally hundreds of local, state and federal Catholic executives and lawmakers have said that they are personally opposed to abortion, but are nonetheless obliged to take a pro-abortion position. Cuomo's attempt to carve out a middle ground on this issue, however, was no more successful in 1984 than it [...]

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CARDINAL GEORGE REBUKES GAY ACTIVISTS

By |2017-03-20T17:55:59-04:00July 21st, 2004|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago, notified all his pastors in May not to give Communion to gay members of the Rainbow Sash Movement. Members of the group, who publicly reject the teachings of the Catholic Church on homosexuality and same-sex marriage, announced that they were going to wear rainbow sashes on Pentecost Sunday at many [...]

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ANOTHER SCANDAL?

By |2013-06-25T18:53:59-04:00July 21st, 2004|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In late June, the Dallas Morning News ran a series of articles alleging that another scandal had unfolded: the Catholic Church was now guilty of moving molesting priests overseas. For 18 months, the newspaper tracked these runaway priests. It concluded that "Nearly half of the more than 200 cases we identified involve clergy who tried to elude law [...]

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