Monthly Archives: June 1998

SEE NO EVIL

By |2013-11-13T21:02:25-05:00June 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In last month’s Catalyst, we stated our objections to the scene in the Neil Jordan movie, "The Butcher Boy," which has Sinead O’Connor voicing the "F-word" while playing the Virgin Mary. Readers might like to know that the Irish Voice wasn’t at all upset with this, though it did get bent out of shape observing that the Catholic League [...]

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CATHOLIC T-SHIRT GETS OK

By |2017-03-20T17:58:17-04:00June 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Students in Sante Fe, New Mexico who wear a T-shirt with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on it can wear them again without fear of punishment. The hero in this debate proved to be Archbishop Michael Sheehan. This spring, public school officials in Sante Fe apologized for prohibiting students from wearing the Catholic T-shirt [...]

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POLITICAL CARTOONS

By |2013-11-13T21:01:55-05:00June 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Some of the cartoons that we object to are at least marginally funny. Not so with recent contributions from Esquire, Phi Delta Kappan, and American Libraries. The April issue of Esquire showed Clinton nailing himself to the cross. Coming as it did during the Easter season, we found it offensive. "It ought to have been possible to have made whatever point [...]

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DON’T PULL THE PLUG

By |2013-11-13T21:01:30-05:00June 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Christopher Reeves, the "Superman" character who wound up paralyzed after being thrown from a horse, is lucky his mother didn’t get her way. Had she done so, he wouldn’t be alive today. Reeves explains in his book, Still Me, that his mother wanted him dead rather than suffer pain. "She became distraught and began arguing strenuously that [...]

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PRIEST BASHING

By |2013-11-13T21:01:05-05:00June 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

KSFO radio in San Francisco recently featured a segment by hosts John and Ken that viciously attacked Roman Catholic priests. Sweeping statements were made casting priests as child molesters, drunks or sex addicts. The operations manager was asked to explain the irresponsibility of his hosts but refused to do so. So why not let Jack Swanson [...]

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OBSESSED WITH “NOTHING”

By |2019-09-24T16:55:47-04:00June 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

They just can’t get over it. "Nothing Sacred" has been officially cancelled by ABC and its fans, few though they are, are having cardiac arrest. USA Today is in a tailspin over the matter, and that is why long after the show was booted, it continues to publicize its lament. The newspaper took a poll to see [...]

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CATHOLIC CHURCHES VANDALIZED

By |2013-11-13T21:00:27-05:00June 27th, 1998|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

When parishioners at Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa, Oklahoma recently went to Mass, they found profanity, swastikas and anti-Catholic messages deeply embedded on the front door. Vandals also wreaked havoc at cemeteries and churches in three small western Kansas communities near Hays. Figures of Christ were smashed to smithereens, headstones were broken, crucifixes were pulled from [...]

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NEA GETS A SUPREME WAKE-UP CALL

By |2017-03-20T17:58:17-04:00June 25th, 1998|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that there is no constitutional prohibition against Congress setting decency standards for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Catholic League president William Donohue was delighted with the decision: "It was due to the elitism and the moral depravity of the artistic community that this issue was raised in the [...]

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SEN. D’AMATO GETS IT WRONG WITH HORMEL NOMINATION

By |2012-10-18T19:15:07-04:00June 19th, 1998|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

New York Senator Alfonse D’Amato is defending the nomination of James Hormel to be ambassador to Luxembourg, saying that "I fear that Mr. Hormel’s nomination is being obstructed for one reason, and one reason only: the fact that he is gay." D’Amato added that the future of the Republican Party "depends on tolerance and respect for [...]

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In Defense of Pius XII–Again!

By |2020-11-24T15:03:44-05:00June 1st, 1998|Categories: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust|

Sister Margherita Marchione Catalyst, June 1998 With the issuance of the Vatican document, "We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah," voices adversely judging Pope Pius XII’s alleged "silence" have increased. Some writers are igniting flames of hatred by claiming that the Catholic Church is responsible for the Holocaust. The evidence is overwhelmingly to the contrary. Through [...]

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