Monthly Archives: October 2008

BISHOPS RESPOND TO PELOSI

By |2017-03-20T17:54:19-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

he following statement was released by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops following Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s misrepresentation of the Catholic Church’s teaching against abortion: In the course of a “Meet the Press” interview on abortion and other public issues on August 24, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi misrepresented the history and nature of [...]

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PELOSI GETS AN “F” IN RELIGION

By |2017-03-20T17:54:20-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would have us believe that the Catholic Church was not always opposed to abortion. And she says this while admitting that she has studied the subject for a long time. Perhaps she should take time out to read what the Catholic Catechism says. “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from [...]

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OBAMA AND BIDEN MUDDY ABORTION ISSUE

By |2017-03-20T17:54:20-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Appearing on the September 7 edition of ABC-TV’s “This Week,” Sen. Barack Obama was asked to comment on his recent quip that he could not say when life begins because it was “above my pay grade.” He called that response “too flip,” offering, “All I meant to communicate was that I don’t presume to be able [...]

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BIDEN DIGS HIMSELF A HOLE

By |2017-03-20T17:54:20-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

On September 9, Sen. Joseph Biden said that if the Republicans were serious about helping disabled children they would support stem-cell research. His comment was a clear shot at Sarah Palin; she chose to give birth to a Down’s syndrome baby rather than have an abortion (the way 90 percent of women do when notified they [...]

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CASEY BLOWS IT ON ABORTION

By |2013-05-22T17:36:47-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Sen. Bob Casey, Jr.’s speech at this year’s Democratic National Convention was supposed to be a breakthrough moment for the Party: in 1992 the Democratic National Convention prohibited Gov. Bob Casey, Sr. from making a pro-life speech. Casey, Jr. blew his chance to make a strong comment about abortion and only offered the standard cliché about [...]

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DEMOCRATS ASKED TO NIX OFFENSIVE BLOGGERS

By |2017-03-20T17:54:20-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The Democratic Party credentialed over 120 blogs for this year’s Democratic National Convention; those who received credentials were allowed to cover the Convention at the Pepsi Center. Included on that list were a few offensive sites; the most offensive was Bitch Ph.D. On the home page of Bitch Ph.D. there was a picture of two children: one of them [...]

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DEMOCRATS SPONSOR CATHOLIC BASHING

By |2013-05-22T17:43:08-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Keith Fimian, the Republican candidate for Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, came under attack by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in a series of mailings and video clips; he was accused of “rolling back women’s rights,” and being “an officer of an organization that promotes a group so extreme they encourage women to be more submissive.” The organization [...]

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BILL MAHER IN HIS OWN WORDS

By |2019-09-23T18:14:10-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Bill Maher’s new movie, “Religulous,” opens October 3. He lampoons Catholicism, Judaism and Islam, though we know that he has a special contempt for our religion.  Here’s a sample of his thinking. November 10, 1999, on “Politically Incorrect”: “The synagogue—and I’m not Jewish, but I was raised Catholic—was never as corrupt as the Catholic Church. The Catholic [...]

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TWO FALSE ALARMS

By |2013-05-22T17:40:24-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Media reports about two possibly anti-Catholic films reached us this summer. “Brideshead Revisited” and “Hamlet 2” appeared likely to be affronts to Catholic sensibilities and thus we went to see them so we would be prepared to respond, if necessary. While Hollywood is still not religion-friendly, not every film focusing on religion, particularly Catholicism, merits the [...]

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ENGLISH-ONLY PREVAILS

By |2013-05-22T17:41:23-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Score one for Catholic autonomy and common sense. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten recently ruled that a Catholic school from Wichita, Kansas had the right to require all its students to speak English. The rule was instituted to protect students from being harassed by those who were selectively speaking Spanish; many of the teachers were [...]

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