The Catholic League protest against HBO left a message that won’t be lost. Between the formal protest registered by Catholic bishops, the thousands of postcards and letters that league members sent, and the meeting that Dr. Donohue had with HBO officials, there is little doubt that HBO won’t be doing a sequel to Priestly Sins. On [...]
On May 5 and 7, CBS aired the mini-series, A Season in Purgatory, based on the novel by Dominick Dunne. It was vintage Catholic baiting as the following selections from the show indicate. The transcript was made available thanks to the Media Research Center, headed by Brent Bozell. "A Season in Purgatory is the story of [...]
On May 16, Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s widow, tore pages from a Bible and passed them into a crowd in downtown New York. After vice president Bernadette Brady and others complained to the press, Ono issued an apology, pledging that she "will not be repeating this in future performances."
The pop star, Madonna, has said that she expects to bring up her baby a Catholic. This is the same Madonna who has made obscene gestures with a crucifix during performances, has called Catholicism "disgusting" and has been denounced by the Vatican. It’s a long shot, but we hope she reconsiders her past attacks on Catholicism [...]
On his April 29 show, Jay Leno crossed the line by saying the following: "Chicago is so in love with pizza that even the Catholic Church is serving up deep dish Communion." The league wrote a letter of protest to the Tonight Show and on May 9 a spokeswoman from the show called Dr. Donohue to [...]
The league complained to World’s Funniest Videos about an April 25 episode which showed a priest in Rome twice dropping the Host while giving Communion to a man; the priest was ridiculed for doing so. The response from the show was unpersuasive: "Under no circumstances did World’s Funniest Videos ever intend to use any material that [...]
Donations made by church members who later become bankrupt may not be seized by the government during bankruptcy proceedings, a federal appeals court has ruled. Relying on provisions of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has determined that contributions given a church by [...]
On May 10, the Columbus Dispatch published an ad by WBNS TV that was blatantly unfair. There was a picture of a woman with her hands folded in a prayer-like fashion, draped with rosary beads. In large letters, the following inscription ran above and below the picture: "We Found Sexual Discrimination In The Most Unlikely Of [...]
In April, the Catholic League was notified about an egregious offense committed against a Catholic priest in California that took place in November 1995. The league intervened in the case and it was favorably resolved. But for several reasons, we have decided not to disclose the actual names of the parties involved or the institutions that [...]
In the June Catalyst, we reported that the Catholic League requested that San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown intervene in a dispute between the city’s Arts Commission and Roman Catholics. The Arts Commission wanted to replace a monument that showed an Indian at the feet of a conqueror with a plaque that read: "With their efforts over [...]
