Monthly Archives: March 1995

In a story on assisted suicide that ran nationwide on March 10, the Associated Press cited the religion of a federal judge who voted to uphold a Washington law  barring doctors from engaging in assisted suicide.  The judge in question is Judge  John T. Noonan of the Ninth Circuit, and the sentence in question is the [...]

The March 8 premier of the “George Wendt Show” was a crude portrayal of the Catholic religious and clergy. It stereotyped nuns and priests in a most negative fashion, it repeatedly trotted  out the old canard about “Catholic guilt” and it took  liberties with statues of Catholic saints. But most disturbing was the way the Irish [...]