This past Christmas season, a store in Berkeley, California sold T-shirts that said “F— Christmas”; the shirt bared the full name of the obscenity. When William Donohue learned of this he personally called the store, Bear Basics, and asked a series of questions. What he discovered was interesting, to say the least. The manager of Bear... [Read more...]
GOOD NEWS
In the December Catalyst we mentioned that the bookstore chain, Borders, and a Milwaukee bookstore, Harry W. Schwartz, were pushing the anti-Catholic screed by John Cornwell, Hitler’s Pope. Borders provided clarification saying it was the publisher, not anyone connected with the bookstore chain that wrote the glowing account. They had no plans... [Read more...]
HATE ADS MAKE THE ROUNDS
The insidious “Earth’s Final Warning” hate ads that the Catholic League relentlessly challenges made their way into several newspapers recently. The Montgomery Journal in Rockville, Maryland ran the ad twice, once on October 8 and again on November 26. Our initial contact with the publisher, Ryan Phillips, was contentious, but then he... [Read more...]
HERE’S A NEW ONE
Think you’ve heard it all? Here’s a new one. On December 8, the Wall Street Journal ran a front-page story on how few women in Mexico use tampons. Two percent, to be exact. In Italy, the figure isn’t much better, registering a measly four-percent. Now what do Mexico and Italy have in common? You guessed it—Catholicism. “The Roman Catholic... [Read more...]
HOLOCAUST “EXPERT” OUTED
On Nov. 13, the News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware ran a story on a “nationally known Holocaust educator Jack P. McGough.” McGough had spoken the day before at the student center on the campus of the University of Delaware (UD) in Newark; he was identified as a professor at UD. The Jewish Federation of Delaware sponsored his talk, “Where... [Read more...]
HONESTY COUNTS
The November Catalyst carried an article, “The Deepest Bias,” that mentioned a positive review of an anti-Catholic book published by the American Library Association (ALA). Steve Schroeder reviewed the book, The Jesus Mysteries, in the ALA newsletter,Booklist. Donohue complained in August to Bill Ott, the editor and publisher, but did... [Read more...]
HOUSTON PORN-ART GALLERY OWNER SHEDS BIAS
The Redbud Gallery in Houston, Texas is home to a blasphemous, obscene and racist exhibit. The exhibit in question, “Sextablos: Works on Metal,” is a play on the Spanish word, retablo; retablos are Mexican paintings of saints on sheets of tin. “Sextablos” features many pornographic images, but by far the worst is the one by Michael... [Read more...]
MARILYN MANSON FIRES AT CATHOLICISM
Marilyn Manson’s new CD, “Holy Wood,” is replete with assaults on religion and celebratory comments on violence. On the cover is a picture of Manson on a crucifix with his jawbone removed; both Circuit City and Best Buy have required Interscope Records to put an alternative cover on the CD. The new single from the album is called “Disposable... [Read more...]
MORE LIES
Some of those who hate the Catholic Church willfully distort the facts to make their point. Some simply lie. Kit Greenberg fits the latter category. Ms. Greenberg was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News as saying that the Catholic Church teaches that “AIDS and HIV are God’s curses on people who behave inappropriately.” William Donohue... [Read more...]
MORE MYTHS ABOUT PIUS XII
The witch-hunt against Pope Pius XII never ends. Yale University Press has now published Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy by Susan Zuccotti. The publisher describes the book as follows: “This meticulously researched and balanced book examines exactly what the pope, his advisers, and his assistants at the Vatican... [Read more...]