Monthly Archives: July 2008

WILL McCAIN AND OBAMA RESPECT CHURCHES?

By |2013-05-22T19:09:24-04:00July 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In June, the Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin College released a survey that reported 57 percent of Americans believe that religious leaders should not support political candidates during worship services. The findings of this poll had grave implications for anyone who decides to run for public office. Sen. [...]

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SALLY QUINN’S NARCISSISM

By |2019-09-23T18:22:28-04:00July 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

On June 18, the funeral Mass for NBC correspondent Tim Russert was held at Trinity Church in Georgetown. Attending the funeral was Sally Quinn. She is a Washington Post journalist and founder and co-moderator of “On Faith”, a Washington Post andNewsweek blog. Quinn, who was an atheist most of her life, posted on June 23 why she decided to go to [...]

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RELIGIOUS RIGHTS FOR GITMO MUSLIMS?

By |2013-05-22T19:11:49-04:00July 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

On June 19, the McClatchy Company, which owns 30 daily newspapers, completed a five-day series on the living conditions of suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; the reporting was based on an eight-month investigation. Needless to say, the series painted a negative picture. Among the things that troubled McClatchy was “the Americans’ ignorance of Islamic [...]

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THE THREAT OF THE NEW ATHEISM BY MIKE SULLIVAN

By |2017-03-20T17:54:26-04:00July 24th, 2008|Categories: Book Review, Catalyst|Tags: |

Scott Hahn & Benjamin Wiker: Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins’ Case Against God, Emmaus Road Publishing Is it time to crack down on religion? After all, religion is responsible for all the trouble in the world, isn’t it? The September 11 attacks were in the name of religion. Galileo was silenced in the name of religion. [...]

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MYERS DESECRATES THE EUCHARIST

By |2012-10-11T20:15:06-04:00July 24th, 2008|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

University of Minnesota professor Paul Z. Myers made good on his pledge to desecrate the Eucharist today. According to his statement on the subject, “I pierced it [the Host] with a rusty nail (I hope Jesus’s tetanus shots are up to date). And then I simply threw it in the trash.” Saying he did not want [...]

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UCF Student Impeached

By |2011-09-01T20:35:41-04:00July 22nd, 2008|Categories: Chatterbox...|

The Catholic League continues to follow the situation with the University of Central Florida student who held the Eucharist hostage for a week.  Webster Cook is a student senator and he has been impeached by his fellow senators for allegedly misrepresenting himself as being on official student government business at the Mass where he took the Host.  As a result [...]

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Power to the People?

By |2017-03-20T17:54:26-04:00July 22nd, 2008|Categories: Miscellaneous, White Papers and Essays|

William Donohue July-August 2008 In the 1960s, left-wing radicals loved to shout, “Power to the People.” They didn’t mean it then, and the aging extremists sure don’t mean it now. Laura Ingraham means it—she even wrote a splendid book by that title. Luckily for us, she’s not one of them. Indeed, she’s a proud Roman Catholic [...]

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MYERS TO DESECRATE EUCHARIST AND KORAN

By |2012-10-11T20:15:07-04:00July 22nd, 2008|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

On July 15, Catholic League president Bill Donohue called attention to the way Professor Paul Z. Myers of the University of Minnesota treats Catholicism and Islam: the biologist’s pledge to desecrate the Eucharist contrasts starkly with the deference he has shown to Islam. Now Myers says that “Thanks to all those who have demanded that I [...]

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Hahn & Wiker: Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins’ Case Against God

By |2017-03-20T17:54:26-04:00July 19th, 2008|Categories: Book Reviews, White Papers and Essays|

Reviewed by Mike Sullivan July-August 2008 THE THREAT OF THE NEW ATHEISM Scott Hahn & Benjamin Wiker: Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins’ Case Against God, Emmaus Road Publishing Is it time to crack down on religion? After all, religion is responsible for all the trouble in the world, isn’t it? The September 11 attacks were [...]

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Pullman Admits Defeat

By |2011-09-01T20:40:49-04:00July 18th, 2008|Categories: Chatterbox...|

New Line Cinema had planned to make all three of Philip Pullman's books that compriseHis Dark Materials into major motion pictures.  Due to the successful boycott led by the Catholic League, the first film, "The Golden Compass," was less than a commercial success.  It now appears that the second book, The Subtle Knife, will not make it to the [...]

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