Ex-cons have rights, too, and no right should be given greater prominence than freedom to worship. That was the central motivating force behind the League's willingness to support a grievance by Robert Scone, a man convicted for sexually molesting his own children. Once Scone was released from prison, he was denied by the Division of Parole [...]
The Catholic League has filed a friend of the court brief before the United States Supreme Court protesting discrimination against religious speech at a public university. The University of Virginia denied a student's request for money from a student activities fund (SAF) to support publication o f a Christian journal, even though SAF money was given [...]
On December 5, the Catholic League was one of more than 70 organizations and individuals who signed a statement prepared by the American Life League protesting the use of human embryos for research and experimentation, as well as the federal funding for such research. The statement was released at a press conference held at the National [...]
The Catholic League on Nov. 11 hailed the decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the case of Father Thomas Carleton, an Operation Rescue priest convicted for blockading an abortion clinic. The court upheld a Feb. 28 decision by the Massachusetts Court of Appeals overturning Father Carleton's conviction due to improper jury selection. The appeals [...]
Mere Creatures of the State Education, Religion and the Courts by William Bentley Ball Preface by Richard John Neuhaus Crisis Books, 1994. Paperback, 132 pp. Reviewed by Karen Lynn Krugh Are we, or are our children, mere creatures of the state? Has the right to instruct our children in the richness of our faith, and the [...]
On January 20, 1995, the Catholic League sent the following letter to Congressman Bob Livingston of Louisiana opposing public funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. Dear Congressman Livingston: As president of the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization, I must register the concerns that the Catholic League has regarding public funding for the National [...]
The “60 Minutes” show of January 22, 1995 contained a segment on the Catholic dissident group Call to Action. The segment covered a Call to Action conference held in Chicago last November, treating viewers to comments from the most alienated and embittered portions of the Catholic community, such as the group Rent A Priest. Yet according [...]
On the op-ed page of tomorrow’s New York Times the Catholic League will publish an “Open Letter to the President of the United States.” The letter will address the issue of anti-Catholicism and the problems that the Clinton administration has had with this matter over the past two years. It will also address Catholic-bashing in the [...]
In an advertisement in the New York Times of January 5, Planned Parenthood blamed Cardinal O'Connor and Cardinal Law for the killings of John Salvi in Brookline, Massachusetts. The ad labeled Cardinal O'Connor's statement that “you cannot prevent killing by killing” as “a backhanded apology for the attackers.” It further noted that Cardinal O’Connor “seems to [...]
