It will be remembered as the most irresponsible frontal assault on Roman Catholicism to be published by a mainstream magazine in years. To be specific, we are referring to theNew Republic's lengthy diatribe by Daniel Goldhagen that appeared in the January 27 edition of the magazine. The article, "What Would Jesus Have Done?", is an excerpt [...]
"I was struck by the title of Goldhagen's article, 'What Would Jesus Do?' That is, what would Jesus have done if he had been in Pius's shoes, or if he were in John Paul II's position today? But Goldhagen is Jewish, as are half the chief editors of The New Republic. It is disingenuous for Jewish journalists [...]
President George W. Bush spoke of the need for tolerance and community service at the annual National Prayer Breakfast held on February 7. He took particular note of those New York firefighters who risked everything to save people inside the World Trade Center on September 11. Bush said they "were not confused about the difference between [...]
After 19 Muslim extremists bombed America on September 11, the first thing many educators did was to teach students on the glories of Islamic history. This was especially true in California. Following the air strikes against the United States, the Byron California Union School District instituted a three-week intensive course on Islam that drew criticism from [...]
On February 7, it was announced that the Los Angeles Unified School District had removed nearly 300 books from its library shelves it deemed offensive. In December, 2001, copies of The Meaning of the Holy Quran were donated to the school district by a local Muslim foundation. This particular version of the Koran, published in 1934, contains footnote [...]
On January 16, the season premiere of the ABC show, "The Job," depicted a detective dressed as a priest and a stripper dressed as a nun; it was not disclosed until the end that the "hot nun" is actually a stripper. The "nun" was shown stripping in front of one of the male detectives while three [...]
New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer began the new year by issuing seven subpoenas to crisis pregnancy centers; he extended the February 1 deadline to February 15. The centers were ordered to provide documentation that will enable the attorney general's office to determine whether there is evidence of practicing medicine without a license or whether [...]
When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he was going to march in this year's St. Patrick's Day Parade up Fifth Avenue, his press secretary, Edward Skyler, was asked to explain why. At issue was the mayor's appearance at an event that excludes gays from marching under their own banner. Skyler said, "The mayor believes [...]
Once again, the Catholic League has locked horns with Miramax, the movie production house owned by Disney. This time the battle is over the film "40 Days and 40 Nights." Josh Hartnett plays a Catholic who pledges to give up sex for Lent but has his will tested by his ex-girlfriend. Because the movie opens during [...]
The sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church has provoked a torrent of criticism, much of it fair. But there has also been an explosion of bigotry, some of which is coming from the ranks of radical feminists. Catholic League president William Donohue commented as follows: “On March 20, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times went ballistic [...]
