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“MORNING-AFTER” PILL FOR PRE-TEENSCatalyst May Issue 2013
On April 5th, U.S. District Judge Edward Korman ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the “morning-after” emergency contraception pill available without a prescription to girls of any age. In a public statement, Bill Donohue noted that a twelve-year-old girl in a New York City school cannot be given an aspirin by her teacher, even if... [Read more...]
DR. CARSON WAS FRAMEDCatalyst May Issue 2013
Dr. Ben Carson has been forced to apologize for defending marriage as it’s been understood since time immemorial. He’s also been forced out as this year’s commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins, because he called marriage “a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe... [Read more...]
PRIEST ENVY ENGULFS MEDIACatalyst May Issue 2013
On four Easter weekend talk shows, Catholic leaders were asked to discuss current events. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was interviewed on March 29 on the Bloomberg show, “Political Capital with Al Hunt”; Cardinal Timothy Dolan was interviewed on Sunday by Bob Schieffer on the CBS show, “Face the Nation,” as well as by George Stephanopoulos on... [Read more...]
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIV. APOLOGIZESCatalyst May Issue 2013
Recently, the administration at Florida Atlantic University issued an apology for an offensive incident involving one of its faculty members. The professor involved, Dr. Deandre Poole in the School of Communications and Media Studies, was placed on administrative leave for the rest of the semester, after a protest ensued regarding an activity that took... [Read more...]
EDUCATING O’REILLYCatalyst May Issue 2013
Recently on his TV show, Bill O’Reilly once again bemoaned what he says is the absence of a Christian response to anti-Christian bigotry. In his exchange with Rev. Robert Jeffress, a Baptist minister, he said, “There isn’t really a leader in the American Catholic Church…There is no Christian society like the Jewish Defamation League.” This... [Read more...]
GAY L.I. CATHOLIC DECEIVES MEDIACatalyst May Issue 2013
Recently a contingent of gay and gay-friendly organizations, GLAAD, Dignity and Faithful America, descended upon the Diocese of Rockville Centre’s central administrative buildings to hold a press conference requesting that Nicholas Coppola be reinstated to the post he held at St. Anthony’s in Oceanside. The protestors allegedly brought over 18,000... [Read more...]
GAY MARRIAGE AND THE “ME DECADES”Catalyst May Issue 2013
In the recent Supreme Court oral arguments over Proposition 8 and same-sex marriage, Charles Cooper, the lawyer defending Proposition 8, urged the high court not to refocus “the definition of marriage away from the raising of children and to the emotional needs and desires of adults.” In doing so, Cooper was simply restating the basic sociological... [Read more...]
CUOMO ENDANGERS MINORITY WOMENCatalyst May Issue 2013
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is about to unveil what promises to be the most radical proposal ever entertained at the state level. It’s also the most dangerous, especially for poor minority women. While Cuomo has yet to reveal the details of his abortion bill, from what we know there will be no restrictions on this life-ending procedure. Abortion... [Read more...]
BISHOPS FIND HHS REVISIONS FLAWEDCatalyst May Issue 2013
The March 20 statement by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (made by general counsel Anthony Picarello and associate general counsel Michael F. Moses) on the HHS revisions is the most definitive assessment to date. Though they concede that “the definition of an exempt ‘religious employer’ has been revised to eliminate some of the... [Read more...]
HHS MANDATE DISPUTE GOES UNREPORTEDCatalyst May Issue 2013
Early in March, Rep. Diane Black of Tennessee had introduced a bill, The Health Care Conscience Rights Act. This bill, if passed, would challenge the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate and it would help protect the religious consciences of employers. To date, however, there still has been little reporting on this bill by the mainstream media. The... [Read more...]