What a way to begin the school year. Council Rock School District of Richboro, Pennsylvania, decided it would cost a lot less if they rerouted Catholic school students who used public transportation. What this meant is that students who attended Villa Joseph Marie High School and Holy Ghost Preparatory School had to be routed through the [...]
Three cartoons that were recently printed earned a letter of protest from the Catholic League. In August, the Valley Mirror, a newspaper in the area of Sacramento, California, published a cartoon of the Pope receiving a cross from a Nazi with the inscription "Nazi Gold" emblazoned on it; the Pope answers, "Bless You, My Son." The league shot back with [...]
On August 8, William Donohue wrote to President Clinton asking him to respond to "Nothing Sacred." On August 15, the President wrote to Donohue stating that "I share your concern regarding negative or irresponsible television portrayals that send our children the wrong message." He went on to say that "I assure you that my Administration remains [...]
Advisor is the publication of the Ohio Association of Security & Investigation Services (OASIS). In a recent issue it ran an article entitled, "The Priest and the Priestess." We did not object to the facts in the piece, but we strongly objected "to its obvious anti-Catholic tone." Snide remarks about priests were interwoven with the story, forcing [...]
On September 4, three Buddhist nuns gave testimony in Washington that not only raised serious questions about the sect’s campaign finance practices, it raised serious questions about the refusal of political pundits to treat this issue as a classic violation of church-state relations. It is known that since 1993 more than $150,000 was laundered to Democratic [...]
When Mother Teresa died, the media did not give her the coverage that it afforded Princess Diana, but generally the treatment was quite fair (see story inside). One of the few really nasty remarks came not from the media, but from an English Episcopal priest, Reverend Donald Reeves. On September 8, on CBS "This Morning," Reeves [...]
Media coverage of the funeral Mass for Mother Teresa was generally quite fair. The lone exception came from ABC. During the consecration of the Host, ABC anchor Peter Jennings allowed author Christopher Hitchens to rant and rave against Mother Teresa; the Vanity Fair writer lambasted the late champion of the poor for her alleged "false humility" and "rabid [...]
On the September 12 edition of the CNBC show, "Hardball," former Clinton advisor, Dick Morris, made an offensive comment about Christ that was immediately challenged by host Chris Matthews. In an aside, Morris remarked "that’s like the guy who gets himself crucified and starts his own religion." Matthews didn’t find the humor in this and stopped [...]
In last month’s Catalyst, we reported on the league’s objections to a play that was to be performed at Tufts University. "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" is a play that contains some lines that are offensive to Catholics and we thought it was inappropriate for the university to host it. As it turned out, [...]
The Catholic League responded to a complaint made by one of its members to a Bob Jones 4th grade history textbook, Americans: People From Many Lands (1993 edition), writing to the press director of Bob Jones University Press. The characterization of Roman Catholicism was inaccurate and encouraged students to view Catholicism with a biased perspective. On page 184 of [...]
