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Catholic Feasts: Learning the Faith through Celebration

Rick Hinshaw Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina, The Feasts: How the Church Year Forms Us as Catholics (New York: Image, 2014)  While the feasts of the Catholic Church might "seem to be a crazy quilt of customs," they are in reality so much more than that – if we take the time to understand their [...]

2017-03-20T17:49:35-04:00By |Categories: Book Review, Catalyst|Tags: |Comments Off on Catholic Feasts: Learning the Faith through Celebration

SELECTIVE SENSIBILITIES

William A. Donohue Almost 8 in 10 Americans are Christian and approximately 96 percent celebrate Christmas. That makes for few Scrooges, though one would never know it given the corrosive effect that militant atheist groups, and their multicultural allies in the public and private sectors, have had on our culture. There is something terribly wrong when [...]

2017-03-20T17:49:14-04:00By |Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |Comments Off on SELECTIVE SENSIBILITIES

FAKE ANIMALS SUBSTITUTE FOR MANGER SCENE

Residents of Howard County, Indiana that were hoping to see a manger scene on the lawn of the county courthouse were disappointed this past Christmas season. Instead, they got a lighted display of the Loch Ness Monster, a whale and other animals. From the pictures we saw, the lighted whale was our favorite. Commissioner Tyler Moore [...]

2017-03-20T17:53:39-04:00By |Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |Comments Off on FAKE ANIMALS SUBSTITUTE FOR MANGER SCENE

MEET THE REAL CENSORS

Bill Donohue comments on who the real censors are: On October 13, 1998, I held a demonstration in the street outside the theater that hosted "Corpus Christi," the Terrence McNally play that depicted Christ having sex with the apostles. I did not seek to have the government censor the play, but there was a protest of [...]

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ANOTHER BASELESS ATTACK ON PIUS XII

Bill Donohue comments on an article by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach posted yesterday online at observer.com attacking Pope Pius XII: Rabbi Boteach's piece trotted out the discredited thesis that Pope Pius XII was "silent" during the Holocaust. In actual fact, the pope did more to save Jews from the Nazis than any other religious leader in the [...]

2019-09-19T17:30:58-04:00By |Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |Comments Off on ANOTHER BASELESS ATTACK ON PIUS XII

NEW YORK TIMES IS IN A REAL PICKLE

This is the ninth installment of Bill Donohue’s report on the BBC sexual abuse scandal and its implications for the New York Times: Mark Thompson was the director-general of the BBC when the British media giant killed a “Newsnight” documentary at the end of last year on the sexual exploits of Jimmy Savile, the BBC child [...]

2017-12-01T19:00:46-05:00By |Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |Comments Off on NEW YORK TIMES IS IN A REAL PICKLE

DAVID BROOKS CROSSED THE LINE

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an article in today's New York Times: There is a column in today's New York Times by David Brooks on the demise of The Weekly Standard that demands a response. The neo-conservative magazine closed for several reasons, among them being the decision by its editor in chief, Stephen Hayes, [...]

2018-12-19T15:13:25-05:00By |Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |Comments Off on DAVID BROOKS CROSSED THE LINE

TRUMP SCORES

A comparison between President Donald Trump's first year in office on the issue of religious liberty, and that of his predecessor, President Barack Obama, showed a considerable difference: religious rights spiked under Trump. On February 1, 2017, Trump chose Judge Neil Gorsuch to take Antonin Scalia's place on the U.S. Supreme Court. Gorsuch is a strong [...]

2018-01-30T20:26:56-05:00By |Categories: Catalyst, Front Page|Tags: |Comments Off on TRUMP SCORES

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