Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on Senator Hillary Clinton’s decision not to march in New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday: “Senator Clinton marched in New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 2000 when she was first running for the U.S. Senate. Because she was criticized by gays for doing so, she took [...]
The Connecticut legislature is considering a bill by Representative Deborah Heinrich that would force Catholic hospitals to violate the teachings of the Catholic Church by providing emergency contraception to all rape victims, independent of whether ovulation has begun. The following letter was sent by league president Bill Donohue today to all members of the Human Services [...]
From the Associated Press: Irena Sendler saved nearly 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis, organizing a ring of 20 Poles to smuggle them out of the Warsaw Ghetto in baskets and ambulances. The Nazis arrested her, but she didn't talk under torture. After she survived the war, she expressed regret for doing too little. Lawmakers in Poland's [...]
According to the Washington Post’s Philip Kennicott, when Robert MacNeil addressed a recent gathering of American for the Arts, the journalist "lamented the influence of fundamentalism on science education, individual freedoms and the larger public dialogue about the hot-button moral and political issues of the day….And so, no surprise, he leapt to the defense of artists, [...]
“Stairway to Hell” is a death metal musical being performed on Tuesday evenings at Snitch, a New York City bar. According to TicketWeb, a band called Warthog “is tragically killed during their botched attempt to break the world record for onstage pyrotechnics. Somehow on the journey to the afterlife, they accidentally end up in heaven. Faced [...]
We wouldn't expect Frances Kissling, recently retired president of the anti-Catholic front group Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), to have any kind words to say about the likes of the Catholic League. Indeed, we would be concerned if she did. So we weren't surprised to read an interview in the March 9 National Catholic Reporter [...]
Presidential hopeful John Edwards recently told the website Beliefnet.com: "I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs. I think he would be appalled, actually." This is interesting coming from a millionaire who is so loathe to [...]
From the San Francisco Chronicle: "In response to the formation of the Gay and Lesbian Employees Association in 2002, Regina Regerford and Robin Christy put up a flyer on a bulletin board in January 2003 announcing formation of a 'forum for people of faith' to express their views 'with respect for the natural family, marriage and [...]
On a scale of 1 to 10, what the two women bloggers who worked for John Edwards said about Jesus and Our Blessed Mother was a 10 in terms of hate speech. What Ann Coulter said about homosexuals was a lot lower on the scale. Yet Edwards branded Coulter’s remark “hateful” and labeled the comments of [...]
Catholic nuns in the 1960s who listened to Church teaching were cruel and showed little compassion for girls who got pregnant out of wedlock. Or so “The Good-Bye Room,” the March 4 episode of the CBS drama “Cold Case,” would lead viewers to believe. In the show, a young pregnant girl named Hillary is sent to [...]
