2011 – November Releases

PENN STATE ANALOGIES EVINCE A BIAS

By |2017-03-20T17:52:41-04:00November 15th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: Everyone and his brother is comparing the Penn State sexual abuse scandal to the Catholic Church's own problems, and in many respects, such an analogy is unfortunately warranted. But some correctives are in order, and some analogies not being discussed need to be made. No institution where adults [...]

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SEXUAL RIGHTS vs. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

By |2017-03-20T17:52:41-04:00November 15th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it mention sexual rights, but it does cite religious liberty. To be sure, the courts have granted a generalized right to privacy (also not mentioned in the Constitution) that covers sexual rights. Still, such newly crafted rights cannot legitimately trump the two [...]

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KC STAR CAMPAIGN HITS PROTESTANT CHURCHES

By |2017-03-20T17:52:41-04:00November 15th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Today, over 100 Protestant churches in the Kansas City, Missouri area are being sent copies of the Catholic League ad that the Kansas City Star refused to run on October 30. This is the fourth segment of the Kansas City area to receive the ad that the Star would like to censor. Previously, we hit 1) [...]

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KC STAR CAMPAIGN HITS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

By |2017-03-20T17:52:42-04:00November 14th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Today, all the Catholic schools and colleges in the Kansas City, Missouri area are being sent copies of the Catholic League ad that the Kansas City Star refused to run on October 30. This is the third segment of the Kansas City area to receive the ad that the Star would like to censor. Previously, we [...]

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KANSAS CITY STAR LIES AGAIN

By |2017-03-20T17:52:42-04:00November 11th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an article posted yesterday on the website of the Kansas City Star: The Star continued with its lies against the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph with a column by Barbara Shelly. Regarding the behavior of Fr. Shawn Ratigan, she writes of "hundreds of explicit images of children" found on [...]

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KANSAS CITY CATHOLIC GROUPS SENT KC STAR AD

By |2017-03-20T17:52:42-04:00November 11th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: , |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue speaks to the latest developments regarding its battle with the Kansas City Star: Yesterday, I was joined by Catholic League staff members and scores of Catholics from Kansas City (we never contacted any of them—they showed up after reading our news release on the event) at a press conference outside the [...]

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SPINNING THE “ANTS ON CRUCIFIX” VIDEO

By |2017-03-20T17:52:42-04:00November 11th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue responds to comments by Arnold Lehman, the director of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (BMA), about the "Hide/Seek" exhibit which opens November 18: For Arnold Lehman, there is no such thing as anti-Catholic art. Catholics who disagree are apparently too stupid to appreciate the complexities of these masterpieces. For example, in [...]

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BROOKLYN MUSEUM TO HOST “HIDE/SEEK”

By |2012-10-10T18:29:33-04:00November 10th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

On November 18, the Brooklyn Museum of Art will host "Hide/Seek." Included in the exhibit will be the video that the Catholic League protested last year when it was shown at the Smithsonian. The video, which features large ants running across the body of Jesus on the Cross, was pulled from the Smithsonian after we protested. [...]

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CATHOLIC LEAGUE ARRIVES IN KC, MISSOURI

By |2017-03-20T17:52:42-04:00November 10th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: , |

The president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, along with Vice President Bernadette Brady and staff members Don Lauer and Alex Mejia, are holding a press conference today at 11:00 a.m. in front of the Kansas City Star (at the corner of Truman and McGee). The purpose of the press conference is to expose the anti-Catholic [...]

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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI PRESS CONFERENCE

By |2017-03-20T17:52:42-04:00November 9th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: , |

Who: Catholic League president Bill Donohue; Vice President Bernadette Brady; Staff Member Don Lauer; Staff Member Alex Mejia; local Kansas City Catholics What: Commence a campaign to blanket religious and secular institutions with copies of a $25,000 ad turned down by the Kansas City Star exposing the anti-Catholic  agenda of SNAP and its lawyers against Kansas City-St. Joseph Bishop Robert Finn. The [...]

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