Monthly Archives: April 2005

“MILLIONS” WORTH OF ENJOYMENT

By |2017-03-20T17:55:41-04:00April 13th, 2005|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Fox Searchlight Pictures has released "Millions," a movie that our own Kiera McCaffrey previewed and found uplifting. The film is set in Liverpool on the fictional eve of the conversion of the British pound sterling to the euro. Two Catholic brothers who have recently lost their mother find a bag containing over £200,000. In the final [...]

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ANOTHER CATHOLIC-BASHING PLAY

By |2013-05-31T19:05:43-04:00April 13th, 2005|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The Playwrights Theater in Manhattan—whose board includes Terrence McNally, of anti-Catholic "Corpus Christi" fame—recently staged the bizarre play, "Whores," written by Lee Blessing. While mainly an anti-American satire, "Whores" is also intentionally offensive to Catholics. A barely fictionalized Central American general who ordered the murder of four nuns now lives in Miami. The audience of "Whores" [...]

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CATHOLICS TO eBay: TREAT US LIKE FAT PEOPLE

By |2012-10-12T17:24:53-04:00April 13th, 2005|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

After a consecrated Host was recently auctioned online by eBay (it has since been sold, purportedly to a Knights of Columbus member who bought it out of respect), the Catholic League was deluged with complaints.  The policy that eBay cited as a reason for not pulling the item was the subject of the following letter that [...]

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CATHOLIC DISSIDENTS ARE FIXATED ON SEX

By |2019-09-20T19:03:43-04:00April 13th, 2005|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president William Donohue commented today on the way Catholic dissidents have been behaving lately: “Catholic dissidents are hung up on sex.  Consider the following. “In its statement on the pope, New Ways Ministry, a pro-gay Catholic group, chastised the Holy Father for ‘making strong attempts to prevent same-sex marriage initiatives from being enacted in [...]

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SCHIZOPHRENIA MARKS CHURCH CRITICS

By |2019-09-20T19:04:08-04:00April 12th, 2005|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: , |

Catholic League president William Donohue commented today on what is ailing some critics of the Catholic Church: “It is nothing short of remarkable that some of the nation’s leading critics of the Catholic Church can hold diametrically opposing positions on the same subject without ever seeming to notice.  In this regard, demands that the Church needs [...]

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U.N. POPULATION CHIEF LECTURES VATICAN

By |2017-03-20T17:55:41-04:00April 11th, 2005|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Thoraya Obaid, the head of the U.N. Population Fund, admonished the Vatican today to change its teachings on condoms.  Speaking of the need for the Catholic Church to endorse condom use, she said, “We are hoping  the new pope will take this message further, because it makes no sense sending people to their death.”  She urged [...]

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POPE’S BURIAL ENDS THE LULL—STORM COMING

By |2017-03-20T17:55:41-04:00April 8th, 2005|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: , |

Catholic League president William Donohue remarked as follows: “The storm is about to hit.  For the most part, anti-Catholic bigots and the disaffected dissidents within the Church have been quiet.  What they have been waiting for is about to happen: the week between the end of the mourning and the beginning of the conclave is upon [...]

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BILL O’REILLY INDICTS HIMSELF

By |2012-10-12T17:25:06-04:00April 6th, 2005|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president William Donohue released the following statement on Bill O’Reilly today: “Last night on TV, Bill O’Reilly took the New York Times to task for op-ed articles in Tuesday’s newspaper that amounted to ‘a counterattack against the late pontiff.’  He said the Times ‘ran a couple of opinion columns saying that the pope was an autocratic guy who may have [...]

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POPE JOHN PAUL II:ROLE MODEL FOR THE WORLD

By |2017-03-20T17:55:41-04:00April 2nd, 2005|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: , |

Catholic League president William Donohue released the following statement today on the death of Pope John Paul II: “Karol Wojtyla was an intellectual, actor, philosopher, athlete and human-rights advocate, but above all, he was a priest.  That is what defined him more than anything else—he was a priest in service to the Lord. “Having traveled to [...]

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