by Karen lynn Krugh Editor's note: Karen Lynn Krugh recently joined our national office staff as an executive assistant. She attended World Youth Day in Denver and submitted this report for our readers. Our nation has experienced division in many ways and for many years. Each generation, it seems, endures a period of tribulation and suffering [...]
This piece was written by the League's Patrick Riley and appeared in the Chicago Tribune on August 19, 1993 The press, by all appearances, is out to get the Pope. Anyone surveying the sea of print media during John Paul II's visit to Denver would find its waters red with his blood and roiling with anti-Catholic [...]
Anti-Catholic bigotry has reared its ugly head in the New York City mayoral campaign and the Catholic League quickly called the source of the defamatory comments to account. During a radio show Ms. Ronnie Eldridge, a New York City Councilperson (and wife of columnist Jimmy Breslin, a world-class Catholic basher), remarked that Rudolph Giuliani was "suspect" as [...]
Editor's note: Dr. Donohue's letter appeared in the Wall Street Journal on August 17, 1993. Kids and Sex Ed: War of Ideologies Mr. Criner's splendid article demonstrates both the folly and the malevolence of the sex-ed industry. There is by now an avalanche of data that conclusively shows how ineffectual it is to pursue the education-determines-behavior [...]
During its annual meeting, the American Bar Association's House of Delegates, the group's policy-making body, voted against a proposal submitted by the State Bar of Texas to put to a vote of the organization's full membership last year's endorsement of abortion rights. The 1992 action reversed a 1990 vote of the House of Delegates which narrowly [...]
In a letter to the editor published by the St. Cloud Times, Rosemary Kassekert, a member of the advisory board of the Catholic League's Minnesota Chapter and Chair of its legal task force, has criticized St. Cloud State University's controversial policy statement mandating its definition of acceptable student attitudes toward gays and lesbians. Ms. Kassekert urged [...]
Daniel Meenan, a member of the Chicago Chapter of the Catholic League has written a timely essay from which we quote the following tidbits. We thank him for his permission to reprint these remarks. Until we, as a nation, abandon our overly materialistic approach to many of our present day problems such as rampant divorce, standards [...]
New York Daily News Religion editor Charles W. Bell wrote a solid piece on the Catholic League (August 21) following an interview with League president Bill Donohue. Headlined "Catholic group uses media to defend faith," the well-written and positive article compared the League's role to that of the ADL. The article dispelled the myth that the [...]
Long Island Chapter The chapter's annual Awards Dinner is scheduled for October. Honorees have been notified. Ten League members attended the annual Red Mass sponsored by the Guild of Catholic Lawyers. League President Bill Donohue was seated on the dais for the brunch at the Plaza Hotel. Wisconsin Chapter Executive Director George Koch is now working [...]
September 2, 1993 National Press Club, Washington, D.C. The nomination of Dr. Joycelyn Elders to be Surgeon General is not something that any of us can take lightly. While some of us are primarily disturbed by the substance of her positions, and others are primarily disturbed by the tone of her remarks, all of us agree [...]
