In last night’s episode of the FX drama “Rescue Me,” Denis Leary’s character had an exchange with a new firefighter about the Bible. He said the Bible is to Catholics what “The Godfather” is to the Mafia. Continuing, Leary blasted the Catholic Church for being corrupt, maintaining that the 12 years he spent in the Church [...]
Disney president Robert Iger wrote a letter today to Rep. Edward Markey, chairman of the House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee, regarding smoking in its films. Here is an excerpt: “We discourage depictions of cigarette smoking in Disney, Touchstone and Miramax films. In particular, we expect depictions of cigarette smoking in future Disney branded films will be [...]
In the past five weeks, the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno” has ridiculed priests six times and the pope once; all of the priest jokes were sexual in nature and painted priests as molesters. · June 18: Robin Williams gets into an extended diatribe about priests as pedophiles · June 20: Leno cracks a joke about [...]
David R. Carlin July-August 2007 Once upon a time—let's say from the time of Franklin Roosevelt till the time of Lyndon Johnson—the Democratic Party was the clear party of choice for American Catholics. The party had a special concern for the urban working classes and for the children and grandchildren of immigrants; its social justice ideas [...]
A few hours ago, the Catholic League issued a news release criticizing efforts to delete Cardinal Edward M. Egan’s name from a resolution commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Archdiocese of New York; we contacted hundreds of media outlets and thousands of our supporters. We have now learned that the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, [...]
On May 2, New York Congressman Vito Fossella introduced a House Resolution commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Archdiocese of New York. The nonbinding resolution has now run into trouble: aides to Congressman Henry Waxman (he chairs the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee) are reportedly saying that New York Archbishop Cardinal Edward M. Egan’s name [...]
Bill Donohue sent the letter below to Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, president of the Chicago Theological Seminary: July 18, 2007 Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite President, Chicago Theological Seminary 5757 S. University Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Dear Ms. Thistlethwaite: I read with interest your lecture to the Catholic Church in the Washington Post blog site. As someone who belongs [...]
Pat Robertson, host of "The 700 Club," had this to say yesterday about sex abuse by Catholic priests: "I'm not Catholic so I'm hardly one to advise the Church, but I do think the policy of celibacy leads to this kind of behavior, and one day they're going to have to re-evaluate it." Studies tell us, [...]
A recent Associated Press piece examined 16 presidential candidates and those donating to their campaigns. The article listed information such as each politician’s total receipts to date, total spending, etc. The AP also listed individual donors who are “of note.” Of the 16, only Sam Brownback (arguably the most “Catholic” of the candidates) was reported as having received [...]
The decision of a suburban San Diego Catholic Church, St. Peter’s in Fallbrook, to welcome day laborers has unleashed an anti-Catholic response on the part of the San Diego Minutemen (an independent Minuteman group). We have asked for all parties to the dispute to exercise civility. Unfortunately, some of our critics are now unleashing their own [...]
