Catholic League member Mary Ann Kreitzer of Alexandria, Virginia showed the power of the pen when she successfully got Tri-Media Marketing Services to drop CHICK publications from their advertising list. CHICK, one of the most infamous world-wide publishers of anti-Catholic tracts, was allowed to market its non-Catholic material in an advertising packet aimed at home schooling [...]
On June 14, 380 Irish-Americans gathered to dine with Mr. and Mrs. Clinton and with Irish President Mary Robinson; it was the largest state dinner of the Clinton presidency. But what was embarrassingly obvious was the absence of any priests, though at least one Presbyterian minister was present. Washington observers ascribed the snubbing of priests to [...]
Catholic League members who would like to know what the candidates for the presidency, Congress and gubernatorial races think about school choice should send $1 to Citizens for Educational Freedom, 927 S. Walter Reed Dr., Suite One, Arlington, VA 22204, or call (703) 486-8311 for bulk orders. Patrick Reilly is the executive director of CEF and [...]
On June 7, Philadelphia Mayor Edward G. Rendell signed an executive order extending city-paid health benefits to the domestic partners of gay city officials. Criticism of the mayor was quickly forthcoming from many sources, including Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philadelphia, City Council President John Street and Arthur J. Delaney, President of the Greater Philadelphia-South [...]
The Catholic League has been named by the Interfaith Alliance to its "enemies list." The list advises Interfaith members of groups they shouldn’t join. For those not familiar with the Interfaith Alliance, it is a new hodgepodge of mainline Protestants, Jews and Catholics, all of whom are committed to the politics of the left. What is [...]
In June, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to censure the Walt Disney Company for its pro-homosexual agenda and for its less than family-friendly image of Catholics. It criticized the Disney policy of extending health benefits to the same-sex partners of employees and also took aim at Disney for the movie Priest, which, the resolution stated, was [...]
On June 10, the Catholic League sponsored a press conference at the New York Catholic Center welcoming Congressman Peter T. King in his effort to secure legislation barring any future bugging of the confessional, as happened in Eugene, Oregon this past spring. The law, called the "Religious Communication Sanctity Act," would bar government officials from taping [...]
Thomas E. Bird, a professor at Queens College, resigned under pressure in July as the new director of the college’s Jewish studies program. Though Bird received the support of many prominent Jews, and has a distinguished record of accomplishment serving Jewish causes, he felt that he was "the object of primitive religious bigotry" and decided to [...]
Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, got carried away when he said, "We are more important than the Catholic religion." More important than professional wrestling, perhaps, but not Catholicism.
In their second book of parodies caricaturing the work of Martha Stewart, Tom Connor and Jim Downey have lashed out at Catholicism. Entitled Martha Stuart’s better than you at Entertaining, the book introduces readers to "Our Lady of Perpetual Gilt," "His Holiness Pope John Paul George," and offers menus for "Circumcision Day" and "All Soul’s Day"; the [...]
