Realizing they didn’t have the votes to win, California lawmakers who wanted to legalize assisted suicide withdrew their bill yesterday. This is good news for everyone, save the advocates of a culture of death. The Catholic League not only objected to the bill, it blasted the anti-Catholic bigots associated with its promotion.
The California assembly is expected to vote next week on a bill that would allow doctors to provide a lethal drug dose to patients who have less than six months to live, are mentally competent and have requested the drug; they would administer it themselves. In the course of the debate over this bill, anti-Catholic bigotry [...]
The New York Times is reporting today that a Japanese professor has found a way to make skin cells work like stem cells, it makes untenable the argument that we must pursue federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. All along there have been signs that the scientific community would soon make moot the need to [...]
Today’s edition of the Detroit News is reporting that “The University of Michigan-Dearborn plans to spend $25,000 for foot-washing stations, making it easier for Muslim students to practice their religion but sparking questions about the separation of church and state.” Catholic League president Bill Donohue is sending the following letter to all Michigan lawmakers today via e-mail: I [...]
Last night, the top three Democratic candidates for president, Sen. Hillary Clinton, former Sen. John Edwards and Sen. Barack Obama, were questioned about their faith and how it affects their policy decisions. All three candidates are Christians, but only Edwards spoke of Jesus and Christianity. Obama and Clinton spoke of their “faith” and their “religion,” without [...]
Yesterday, Senator Barack Obama became the first presidential contender to launch a religious outreach website, faith.barackobama.com. Commenting on it today is Catholic League president Bill Donohue: “On Sen. Obama’s new website, he lists the testimonials of three controversial clergymen: Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago; Rev. J. [...]
By Sister Margherita Marchione (June 1, 2007) As the Vatican moves toward announcing the beatification of Pope Pius XII, some prominent American Jewish leaders continue to insist that the Church should desist from that long-overdue action. They claim that Pius was guilty of not doing enough to prevent Hitler's genocide of Jews during the Holocaust. Even [...]
By Dan Kurzman (Catalyst, June, 2007) As soon as Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was ousted from power on July 25, 1943, Adolf Hitler began hatching a plan to kidnap Pope Pius XII and plunder the Vatican. Clearly, the Fuehrer thought, the "Jew-loving" pope had encouraged King Victor Emanuel II and some rival fascist leaders to overthrow [...]
It’s often said that statistics don’t lie, but they can paint a misleading picture if presented the right way—or, rather, the wrong way. For instance, a June 1 Associated Press article on faith and politics reported that Catholic voters “support legalized abortion in all or most circumstances by 53 percent to 43 percent, according to 2004 [...]
