The following is a statement written by Catholic League president William A. Donohue: On September 11, the Catholic League staff looked out the window and saw the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers collapse right before our eyes. It was October a year ago that the Catholic League’s national headquarters was relocated to 450 7th Avenue in New... [Read more...]
CATHOLIC LEAGUE TV AD WITHDRAWN
Beginning Monday, September 17, the Catholic League was scheduled to run an ad on television. But due to the national crisis, the ad has been withdrawn. Catholic League president William Donohue commented as follows: “We were ready to air a one-minute ad on TV aimed at getting new members, but due to the terrorist attacks on the United States,... [Read more...]
AGENDA POLITICS
Unfair judgments are made all the time. But there is a profound difference between judgments that are unfair due to error and judgments that are unfair due to calculation. We must tolerate the former but never the latter. With regard to the work of the Catholic League, it is the difference between those who are wrongheaded and those with an agenda. Let... [Read more...]
BILL SEEKS GAG ORDER ON ABORTION PROTESTERS
On August 21, the New York City Council debated Bill NO. 645-A that seeks to limit the free speech rights of abortion protesters outside abortion clinics. The bill, introduced by council member Kathryn Freed, would make it illegal for abortion protesters to pass out leaflets or handbills to an unconsenting person outside abortion facilities. It would... [Read more...]
TESTIMONY OF THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE PROPOSED Int. 645-A
League president William Donohue wrote the following testimony. League communications director, Patrick Scully, read it on August 21 before the New York City Council. “The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization. We defend individual Catholics against discrimination and the Church... [Read more...]
BISHOPS RESPOND TO MILLER BREWING
In the September Catalyst, there was a story regarding a particularly crude and bigoted attack by Howard Stern on Catholic priests. We wrote to every bishop in the nation asking him to write a letter of protest to Miller Brewing Company (owned by Philip Morris), Stern’s most prominent sponsor. The following bishops wrote to us saying they would join... [Read more...]
CATHOLICISM BLAMED FOR THE TERRORISM
It didn’t take long. Just a matter of hours. On the same day as the bombing of the World Trade Center (WTC), we received the following comment on our website feedback section. It is being reprinted here with the misspellings and grammatical errors intact. We chose not to spell the obscenities. “People like you and your fat priests, bishops and... [Read more...]
CRUCIFIX DEMANDED IN HONOLULU CITY HALL
The ACLU’s chapter in Hawaii has announced that it will file a federal lawsuit against the city of Honolulu because the city banned a painting of a nude woman on a cross from being displayed on public property. The painting by Daria Fand, “Last of the Believers,” was banned from an exhibit last March at Honolulu Hale. The Catholic League’s... [Read more...]
“DON’T CRY FOR ME GALILEO”
William McGurn is a good Catholic who writes a lot of unsigned editorials for the Wall Street Journal; he also writes a number of signed articles. His work is uniformly outstanding. In the course of a piece he did on President Bush’s decision on stem cell research, McGurn lamented the fact that not enough priests have addressed the Church’s teachings... [Read more...]
DON’T LOOK FOR LOGIC
In August, the New Jersey Supreme court ruled that a man could decide the fate of frozen embryos that he and his former wife had created. Here’s what happened. The court was asked to decide whether a man could have the frozen embryos that he and his former wife had created implanted in another women. The court ruled he could not. To complicate matters,... [Read more...]