Mel Gibson's movie, "The Passion of Christ" (recently retitled from "The Passion"), won't be released until Lent, but the reaction to it hasn't abated since the first salvo was launched against the Hollywood star last spring. Lining up against Gibson is the ad hoc committee of New Testament scholars, both Catholic and Jewish, who are furious [...]
There will be no "Hail Mary's Last Chance Sports and Spirits" bar in Rock Island, Illinois. Here's what happened. Two entrepreneurs, Bruce Millage and Jeffrey Guthrie, recently purchased a building that housed a former synagogue in Rock Island. They planned to turn it into a sports bar by the name, "Hail Mary's Last Chance." Their intent [...]
William A. Donohue As a kid who grew up in New York in the 1950s, I had no idea what a homosexual was. There were a few effeminate boys, of course, but they were simply regarded as sissies; the most exaggerated of this group were known as fairies. What this conveyed was an inability to be [...]
By Rabbi Daniel Lapin Never has a film aroused such hostile passion so long prior to its release as has Mel Gibson's "Passion." Many American Jews are alarmed by reports of what they view as potentially anti-Semitic content in this movie about the death of Jesus, which is due to be released during 2004. Clearly the [...]
by Sister Margherita Marchione The following article, written by Sister Margherita Marchione, discusses new evidence from the Vatican Archives that shows the heroism of Pope Pius XII. Sister Margherita is no stranger to Catholic League members: we have published many of her articles on Pius XII. And she is certainly no stranger to the subject, having [...]
by Mark S. Massa, S.J. The following is an excerpt taken from the publisher of Father Massa's book: Massa's new book on anti-Catholicism in the United States from World War II to the present has been described as "a work of scholarly rigor, storytelling, and humor…[an] authoritative study that reveals how American Catholics' distinctive way of [...]
On the day Pope John Paul II celebrated his Silver Jubilee, the results of two new polls on his performance were released. For the purpose of simplicity, the USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup poll will be called the first poll; the Washington Post-ABC poll will be named the second poll. Though both polls were conducted by reputable organizations, the [...]
In the summer of 2002, a New York City judge rejected a woman's request that money being held by the court be used for her teenage daughter's Catholic school tuition. The judge, Luther V. Dye, said he wouldn't send his kids to a Catholic school given the scandal in the Church. The woman contacted the Catholic [...]
On July 25, we began a petition drive of Catholic League members in Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island in support of Rockville Centre Bishop William F. Murphy. We did so after Voice of the Faithful on Long Island called for the bishop to resign. Two months later, we had amassed more than 6,000 signatures. [...]
A group of elites in the fields of law, psychology and social work has petitioned the Archdiocese of Boston for permission to oversee cases of alleged clergy sexual abuse. They have been denied. That is because the archdiocese already has two groups of Catholics who are discharged with this duty. Nonetheless, the elites object to this [...]
