Monthly Archives: December 2005

CHRISTMAS CENSORS BAN 4TH OF JULY

By |2012-10-12T16:50:46-04:00December 14th, 2005|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Patricia Sonntag, director of the office of Services to Students with Disabilities at California State University, Sacramento, has banned 4th of July celebrations, along with Christmas, from her office.  Here is her directive: “With the new year, we will now celebrate the seasons and holiday without decorations in the public areas and hallways.  This is a secular [...]

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CHRISTMAS PARTY ETIQUETTE

By |2017-03-20T17:55:28-04:00December 13th, 2005|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on Christmas party etiquette: “This is a big week for Christmas parties in the workplace, so be careful.  Monster.com doesn’t mince any words: ‘A Christmas party may alienate some staff.’  Unfortunately, it doesn’t give any advice on who these anti-Christmas party people might be.  Jacqueline Whitmore, the founder of [...]

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JOSEPH CALIFANO CONDEMNS “SOUTH PARK”

By |2012-10-12T16:50:47-04:00December 12th, 2005|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

On December 8, Catholic League president Bill Donohue issued a news release describing the script of a “South Park” episode that defiled the Virgin Mary: it showed a statue of her “bleeding out her ass.”  Later in the show it had a cartoon character of Pope Benedict XVI conclude that the bleeding was coming from her [...]

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VICTORY OVER WAL-MART; ALL DEMANDS MET

By |2013-05-30T19:27:36-04:00December 12th, 2005|Categories: Catalyst, Front Page|Tags: |

On November 9, we started a boycott against Wal-Mart, citing discrimination against Christians. On November 10, the world's largest retailer refused to give in to our demands. On November 11, Wal-Mart folded, yielding on all counts. Ergo, we called off our boycott. Over the past decade, Wal-Mart has been the object of a great deal of [...]

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HERE’S TO YOU, MR. ROBINSON

By |2013-05-30T19:28:45-04:00December 12th, 2005|Categories: Catalyst, Front Page|Tags: |

Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, and the first openly gay Anglican bishop, attacked the Catholic Church in November while visiting London. "I find it so vile that they [the Catholic Church] think they are going to end the child abuse scandal by throwing out homosexuals from seminaries. It is an act of violence [...]

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CONFRONTING THE CHRISTMAS CENSORS

By |2017-03-20T17:55:28-04:00December 12th, 2005|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue John Gibson, who anchors the Fox News Channel's "The Big Story," has written a splendid book about the culture wars over Christmas. It is aptly titled, The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought. Gibson recounts a series of anti-Christmas cases that have [...]

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RESOLVING THE CULTURE WAR ON RELIGION

By |2017-03-20T17:55:28-04:00December 12th, 2005|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

By David L. Gregory General Counsel, Catholic League Professor of Law, St. John's University Law School The Right to be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America is the latest, and perhaps the most engaging and lucid, entry in the burgeoning "culture war" literature. But, unlike all of the others, this book proposes an interesting [...]

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ADL FEARS CHRISTIAN AMERICA

By |2013-05-30T19:29:57-04:00December 12th, 2005|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

After what Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) did, Bill Donohue called his friend Don Feder, president of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, to join forces against Foxman's recklessness. During the first weekend in November, Foxman met with members of his national commission in New York. According to an article in the November 7 edition of [...]

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UNDERSTANDING NARNIA

By |2013-05-30T19:30:57-04:00December 12th, 2005|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Just in time for the release of the film The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, based on the the first book of C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, comes Ted Baehr’s, Narnia Beckons. This study of Lewis’ work will delight readers with abundant illustrations and in-depth scholarly analyses. Christians of all ages stand to gain from the thoughtful [...]

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NOTICE TO MEMBERS: NO CHANGE IN DUES

By |2013-05-30T19:31:46-04:00December 12th, 2005|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

It has been 10 years since the Catholic League raised its dues by $5 for family households (dues for seniors remained unchanged). During this time, the cost of everything associated with the Catholic League has steadily increased—postage, printing, salaries, rent, office supplies, electricity, maintenance, housekeeping, telephones, computers, etc. We have good news. Notwithstanding these increases, the [...]

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