Monthly Archives: October 1996

CAN THERE BE “COMMON GROUND”?

By |2012-06-11T17:31:28-04:00October 11th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In August, Cardinal Bernardin along with eight bishops and 17 other Catholic leaders met to discuss the possibility of reaching common ground between various factions within the Church. On August 12 the Chicago Sun-Times published an exchange between Call to Action president Linda Pleczynski and William Donohue, president of the Catholic League. Here is the full text of [...]

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APA OFFERS BIASED LOOK AT CHURCH

By |2017-03-20T17:58:53-04:00October 11th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The APA Monitor, the newsletter of the American Psychological Association, recently offered a biased look at the Catholic Church, necessitating a Catholic League response. The following letter explains the league’s position. We are grateful to psychologist Patricia Donoghue for bringing this issue to our attention. "The August edition of the APA Monitor had two articles on sexual abuse among [...]

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ELITE TASTES

By |2012-06-11T17:31:30-04:00October 11th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Stephen E. Lewis is darling of the Georgetown circuit, if for no other reason than the fact that few places in the District of Columbia welcome his "art." Lewis, a 30 year old artist, gives high marks to Michael Clark in Georgetown for showing his stuff. And what is his stuff? Described in the Washington Post [...]

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OFFENSIVE AD WITHDRAWN

By |2012-06-11T17:31:31-04:00October 11th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In the July-August Catalyst we reported that the Columbus Dispatch apologized for an by WBNS TV that offended Catholics. We also said that we had not heard from WBNS. Well, now we have, and we are delighted with the response. The ad featured a picture of a woman with her hands folded in a prayer-like fashion, draped over rosary beads. [...]

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PAROCHIAL SCHOOL PREVAILS IN COURT

By |2017-03-20T17:58:53-04:00October 11th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In an important decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that a public school district must pay for a mentally retarded student to attend a parochial school. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, all disabled students are entitled to special education at state expense. But until now it wasn’t clear whether the state was required [...]

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ATLANTA CHAPTER SCORES HOUSE OF BLUES

By |2017-03-20T17:58:53-04:00October 11th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The following letter, written by Atlanta chapter president Richard O. Perry, was published in the Georgia Bulletin, the newspaper of the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta. Perry took issue with the House of Blues logo. To the Editor: Among the novelties brought to Atlanta by the Olympics us the "House of Blues," a nightclub and restaurant chain. [...]

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CALIFORNIA PAPER MALIGNS POPE

By |2012-06-11T17:31:33-04:00October 11th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

A common criticism is that the Catholic Church’s teachings on contraception and abortion are somehow responsible for Third World poverty. In a Stockton, California newspaper,The Record, columnist Joseph Guzzardi II wrote a particularly unfair piece maligning the Holy Father. League president William Donohue fired back with the following response. "In his tirade against the Catholic Church [...]

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ADWEEK PROFILES ATTACK ON CHURCH

By |2012-06-11T17:31:34-04:00October 11th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In a report this past summer, the New England edition of Adweek profiled the complaints of two Catholic ad agency directors, Ernie Schenck and Jamie Mambro. Judy Warner’s story, which appeared July 29, discussed the reasons why Schenck and Mambro developed ads that attack the Church for allegedly doing nothing about those priests who have sexually abused children. [...]

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APOLOGY FROM ALBERMARLE

By |2017-03-20T17:58:53-04:00October 11th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In a recent edition of Albermarle, a magazine of Central Virginia, there was a piece by a contributing writer, Rita Mae Brown, entitled "Communion Causes Cancer." Obtusely written, it failed at humor but succeeded in offending. We are told that communion wafers can cause cancer, learn of a pastor who distributes water crackers (someone stole the communion [...]

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FALSE ALARM

By |2017-03-20T17:58:53-04:00October 11th, 1996|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

We have received several complaints about a prospective film entitled "The Sexual Life of Jesus Christ," produced by Modern People News. The movie, which supposedly presents Jesus as a homosexual, and features a notorious French prostitute in the role of Mary Magdalene, is being advertised abroad, as well as in the U.S. But repeated attempts by [...]

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