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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...]
LEAD US, HOLY FATHERCatalyst May Issue 2013
This ad appeared on the op-ed page of the April 15th edition of the New York Times. Read More →
A MORE EXCELLENT WAYCatalyst May Issue 2013, Book Review
Patrick J. McNamara, Ph.D. George Weigel, Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st Century Church (New York: Basic Books, 2013). No one doubts the need for deep reform in the Church, but few agree on how to go about it. George Weigel, one of our foremost Catholic intellectuals, offers a comprehensive reform proposal transcending the liberal... [Read more...]
POPE FRANCIS INSPIRES; WINS WORLDWIDE APPLAUSECatalyst April Issue 2013, Front Page
It didn’t take long before the world embraced Pope Francis. The election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio to be the new leader of 1.2 billion Catholics was greeted with applause around the globe, but nowhere was it more apparent than in Latin America. Ten days before the election, Bill Donohue was quoted in the Los Angeles Times expressing what he... [Read more...]
MONAGHAN PREVAILSCatalyst April Issue 2013, Front Page
Thomas Monaghan, a member of the advisory board of the Catholic League, prevailed in federal district court against the Obama administration’s Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate. On March 14, Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff of the Eastern District of Michigan granted a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction against enforcement of the HHS mandate. Monaghan... [Read more...]
SPARKS FLY OVER PAPAL TRANSFERCatalyst April Issue 2013, From The President's Desk
William A. Donohue The lead story in this edition of Catalyst covers the effusive praise heaped on Pope Francis, and the warm reception he received from leaders of other religions. But we would be remiss if we didn’t address the explosion of hatred that the papal transfer engendered. All of the following comments were made within the first 24 hours... [Read more...]