On Tuesday, February 6, PBS aired a program called, Murder on "Abortion Row." The two hour special purported to be a serious look at the life of John Salvi, the person who wounded five and killed two women working at a Brookline, Massachusetts abortion clinic on December 30, 1994. The Catholic League was given an opportunity to [...]
The CBS movie, "Thorn Birds: The Missing Years," which aired on February 11 and 13, was almost universally panned by the critics and proved just as unattractive to viewers. Unlike the 1983 movie, the "Thorn Birds," this 1996 version was not based on the Colleen McCullough book by that name, and in fact did not receive [...]
On February 22, the Tennessee Senate approved by a vote of 27 to 1 a resolution urging homes, businesses, schools and places of worship to post the Ten Commandments. The vote was a response to an opinion by the State Attorney General that the measure is unconstitutional. Two days earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to [...]
Chicago's Woman Made Gallery and New York's Slowinski Gallery recently displayed art work that defames Roman Catholicism. The Chicago exhibit, which began January 25 and ended February 23, featured many displays and was titled "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." The New York exhibit, which began February 14 and ended March 2, showed one of the Chicago displays [...]
The Catholic League gets its share of hate mail but the following letter is particularly graphic. Though the person who sent it supplied us with name and address, we decided not to print this information. But what appears here is the actual text of the letter, complete with its reference to Cardinal John O'Connor: "What better [...]
In its February fundraising letter, the ACLU accused pro-life forces of "adopting sensational, exploitative and viciously deceptive language. In this case, they did it by shamelessly naming the procedure they are trying to ban a `partial birth abortion.'" The shame is that the ACLU sees the injection of a needle into the brains of partially delivered [...]
The Christian Home Educators Association (CHEA) of California has refused to allow the National Association of Catholic Home Educators to place an ad in the program for the CHEA's July 12-14 program at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. A representative of CHEA has said that Catholics are "sectarian," not Christian.
The Catholic League has joined with the Family Research Council in requesting a Congressional hearing on the subject of religious harassment. In letters to Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressman Henry Hyde, the league asked that the hearings focus on disturbances of church activities. The league contends that hate crime legislation and other laws affecting religious liberties [...]
When the Catholic League learned that the New York City Department of Corrections did not accommodate Catholic prisoners on Ash Wednesday by making available meatless meals, it took its complaint to the Deputy Commissioner of Corrections. Jews and Muslims are offered a special diet on their holy days, and Catholic should be treated just as fairly, [...]
Don Gross, a staff writer for the Staten Island Advance, wrote a news story on February 16 on how St. Vincent's Medical Center goes out of its way to accommodate Jewish patients. But in his story, Gross said that a Jewish social worker is employed by the Catholic hospital "to ease the minds of Jewish patients [...]
