Monthly Archives: October 2008

APPROPRIATELY EDGY

By |2013-05-22T17:42:20-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Bill Donohue is often asked by the celebrity page of the New York Post, “Page Six,” to offer an edgy comment on some current attack on the Catholic Church. In September, he was asked to comment on the upcoming book, 101 Places To Have Sex Before You Die; one of the recommended places is the confessional. Here was [...]

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ELECTION UPDATE

By |2013-05-22T17:44:03-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Attempts to stop the referendum in California on gay marriage failed, but they succeeded in Florida in derailing the referendum on school vouchers. Regarding the California initiative, all the state’s bishops signed a strong statement urging Catholics to support the traditional understanding of marriage as a male-female union. The November results will be closely watched.

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MEMBERS BLAST MYERS

By |2013-05-22T17:44:58-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

As soon as the September Catalyst came out, Catholic League members started bombarding Paul Myers with their comments. The Eucharist-desecrating professor from the University of Minnesota complained that “I’ve recently seen a significant surge of howling mad Catholics shrieking at me.” He ascribed the surge to Catalyst. He’s lucky we’re Catholic, otherwise the response might have been dramatically different. [...]

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UCF STUDENT PUNISHED

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

The University of Central Florida (UCF) student who walked out of Mass with the Eucharist (he later returned it), and who inspired University of Minnesota professor Paul Myers to desecrate the Communion wafer, was  impeached over the summer for his behavior by his fellow student government officers. The student, Webster Cook, still had to await the [...]

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AN URGENT PRAYER TO THE BLESSED MOTHER FOR THE ELECTION

By |2013-05-22T17:47:53-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Tom and Phyllis Coté from New Jersey spotted this Election Year prayer in a Florida Catholic newspaper in 2000. It is just as relevant today—perhaps more so—and that is why we decided to share it with you. [Please note that because of space limitations, we simply cannot print many of the beautiful prayers and other materials [...]

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HITLER’S REAL RELIGIOUS ADVISOR

By |2019-09-23T18:14:48-04:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Book Review, Catalyst|Tags: |

By: William Doino, Jr. Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam by David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann (Random House) Two years ago, Pope Benedict XVI delivered an address in Regensburg, Germany on the relationship between faith and reason. That speech, which challenged elements of the Islamic world, created a firestorm of [...]

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CATHOLIC LEAGUE TO IRS: AMERICANS UNITED FLOATS STEREOTYPES

By |2019-09-20T18:17:37-04:00October 23rd, 2008|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue sent a letter today to Lois G. Lerner at the IRS. The text is printed below: Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State has made public his objections to Paterson, New Jersey Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli’s recent letter to his constituents on the subject of abortion. Lynn [...]

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NEW YORK TIMES OPINES ON BIGOTRY

By |2017-03-20T17:54:20-04:00October 23rd, 2008|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

The Terrence McNally play, “Corpus Christi,” is currently being performed in Greenwich Village. The play depicts Jesus as an ordinary person who has sex with his apostles. In 1998, Catholic League president Bill Donohue led 2000 demonstrators in a protest against the play when it opened at the midtown Manhattan Theater. Because the play is not [...]

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CATHOLIC LEFT SCANDAL MOUNTS

By |2017-03-20T17:54:20-04:00October 23rd, 2008|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

On October 20, the Catholic League accused two left-wing Catholic groups of consorting with George Soros, the bigoted pro-abortion mogul. Specifically, we said that Catholics in Alliance receives funding from Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI) and that it is integrally linked to Catholics United. Now Chris Korzen of Catholics United is saying that OSI also funds [...]

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“JOE THE THEOLOGIAN” OPINES ON ABORTION

By |2012-10-22T16:45:01-04:00October 22nd, 2008|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: , |

In the October 19 edition of the News Journal, Joe Biden offered his thoughts on faith and values. The Delaware daily also printed a 2007 interview with the Democratic VP candidate on the subject of abortion; it was not previously published. Catholic League president Bill Donohue criticizes Biden’s views today: “In his latest interview with the News Journal, [...]

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