The Catholic League is now engaged in a struggle with the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy over the constitutional rights of Catholics. Both branches of the armed forces, the league charges, are guilty of promoting a politically-correct agenda at the expense of Catholic rights. Lt. Ryan Berry is a 26 year-old Catholic Air Force officer who objects,... [Read more...]
CATHOLIC WAR VETERANS
The response by Catholic League veterans who recently joined Catholic War Veterans was so good that we thought we’d run this by you again. If you want to join, write to Ignatius M. Paolilla, Catholic War Veterans National Headquarters, 441 North Lee Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 Read More →
DAVID E. KELLEY RETURNS
We feel obliged to alert our members to a possible trouble spot on TV. According to one report, the September 23 episode of the CBS show, “Chicago Hope,” features “a priest who walks into the emergency room claiming to have been mugged by an assailant who bit through and severed his private parts.” This episode was written by... [Read more...]
“DETROIT ROCK CITY” IS A LOW-CLASS ACT
On August 13, New Line Cinema released “Detroit Rock City,” a movie set in 1978 about four teenagers who go on a wild spree on their way to a KISS concert. KISS star Gene Simmons is featured in the movie and is a co-producer. It is a farcical comedy in which nearly all the characters are caricatures. It is also one that contains two scenes... [Read more...]
DISHONESTY MARKS ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
By William Donohue Over the summer, Hollywood treated us to some pretty slimy stuff, much of it aimed at kids. Austin Powers was back, this time drinking diarrhea daiquiris in “The Spy Who Shagged Me” (in England, the term “shagged” is an obscene word for sex). Newspaper advertisements for “Big Daddy” showed a father... [Read more...]
“DOGMA” BOOKLET NOW AVAILABLE
In August, the Catholic League released a booklet on “Dogma” that provides hard evidence of the anti-Catholic nature of the movie. It contains actual statements made by those associated with the movie, as well as remarks made by film critics, all of which unwittingly make our case: while these persons are obviously not offended by the bigotry,... [Read more...]
“DOGMA” PROTEST SWELLS
The protest over the movie “Dogma” gained force over the summer as the Catholic League commenced its petition drive and issued a booklet on the movie; more steps are planned for the fall. At press time, league had received approximately 100,000 signatures supporting our petition drive to get Disney to dump Miramax; thousands more are coming... [Read more...]
ENVOY
A really excellent publication is Envoy, a magazine of Catholic apologetics. Unfortunately, some who have recently received our direct mail survey that lists the Hunter College publication of the same name mistakenly thought that it was the classy apologetics magazine that printed obscene and blasphemous material. The real Envoy, run by Matthew Pinto,... [Read more...]
GERARD BRADLEY FILES AMICUS
Gerard Bradley, who succeeds William Bentley Ball as Chairman of the Catholic League’s Legal Advisory Committee, has filed an amicus brief for the Catholic League in a case that is bound to have national ramifications. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of Helms v. Picard, and will decide whether certain public aid to religious schools... [Read more...]
IT’S ALL IN THE NAME
On June 23, the Catholic League ran an op-ed page ad in the New York Times that called on Disney to dump Miramax, its anti-Catholic subsidiary, the same way it dumped “Dogma.” In the ad, reference was made to Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the co-chiefs at Miramax who purchased the film after Michael Eisner of Disney put the arm on them. And... [Read more...]