Monthly Archives: September 2002

JANE MAGAZINE FOOLS NO ONE

By |2017-03-20T17:56:42-04:00September 23rd, 2002|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The August edition of Jane magazine featured a satirical article about how people can use the same tactics as pedophile priests to have casual sex. Titled "How to get laid like a priest," the article contained a disclaimer asserting it was targeting only pedophile priests, not the Church in general. The accompanying photographs showed a storefront [...]

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RADIO HOST DISCIPLINED

By |2013-07-17T20:53:35-04:00September 23rd, 2002|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

On July 25, radio show host John Ziegler treated his listeners on WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky, to an extended diatribe on Catholicism. He managed to lambaste celibacy, the sacraments, and Church teachings. But he saved his biggest guns for an attack on the Eucharist. Ziegler opined how "freaky somebody has to be to become a priest [...]

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CHEAP SHOTS ON “SEX AND THE CITY”

By |2013-07-17T20:53:56-04:00September 23rd, 2002|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

On July 28, the HBO show "Sex and the City" aired an episode that was dotted with cheap shots at Catholicism. The episode, "Unoriginal Sin," featured Sarah Jessica Parker playing Carrie Bradshaw; Carrie is also the show's narrator. Viewers also meet Miranda, an unmarried non-Catholic mother of a newborn. Her boyfriend wants to baptize the child [...]

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“SOUTH PARK” SHOWS COWARDICE

By |2013-07-17T20:54:21-04:00September 23rd, 2002|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Over the summer, Comedy Central spent a lot of time promoting a particular episode of "South Park." The promo for the show that aired July 3 boasted that this is one "the Catholic Church doesn't want you to see." Not surprisingly, this episode targeted the sex abuse scandal in the Church. The promo featured a bishop [...]

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LEGALISMS FAIL TO PERSUADE

By |2017-03-20T17:56:42-04:00September 23rd, 2002|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The spring edition of Law and Courts, a newsletter published by the American Political Science Association (APSA), contained an article on a judge often touted as a possible Supreme Court nominee. Of Judge Emilio Garza it was said that he "is single, is a devout Catholic and is said to regularly attend Mass during his lunch [...]

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SECOND AD AGAINST DNC APPEARS THIS WEEKEND

By |2012-10-12T20:17:49-04:00September 20th, 2002|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president William Donohue issued the following statement today regarding the Democratic National Committee (DNC): “Last week, we ran an ad in the National Catholic Register against the DNC.  Now we are running the ad again, only this time it will appear in the September 22 edition of Our Sunday Visitor; it is another influential Catholic weekly with [...]

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DISNEY BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO MEET: REQUEST MADE TO SEVER TIES WITH MIRAMAX

By |2012-10-12T20:17:51-04:00September 19th, 2002|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president William Donohue sent a letter today by overnight mail to the 16 members of Disney’s board of directors. They will meet on Tuesday, September 24. An excerpt is printed below: Since the mid-1990s, Miramax has been associated with four Catholic-bashing movies: “Priest”; “Butcher Boy”; “Dogma”; and “40 Days and 40 Nights.” Now it [...]

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Inside the Belly of the Beast: Catholic Studies at Public Colleges and Universities

By |2017-03-20T17:56:42-04:00September 19th, 2002|Categories: Education, White Papers and Essays|

by Joseph A. Varacalli (Catalyst 9/2002) Today, institutions of higher education are major generators of socially dominant ideas, images, and fashions. As sociologists might say, they are major "agents of socialization." Empirically speaking, public higher education is almost exclusively—at least in the humanities and social sciences—an agent for the promotion of politically left-wing secular thought. It [...]

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CHRISTOPHER REEVE APOLOGY ACCEPTED

By |2012-10-12T20:17:52-04:00September 18th, 2002|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Actor Christopher Reeve has issued an apology to Catholics for his remarks implying that President Bush and the Catholic Church conspired to obstruct research governing stem cells and therapeutic cloning.  The Catholic League criticized Reeve yesterday for his comments.  League president William Donohue addressed Reeve’s statement today: “It was commendable of Christopher Reeve to extend an [...]

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DNC SPOKESMAN DEFENDS ANTI-CATHOLIC LINK: CAMPAIGN AGAINST DNC ESCALATES

By |2012-10-12T20:17:54-04:00September 18th, 2002|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Buck, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), is now defending the link between the DNC and a notoriously anti-Catholic group, Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC).  In an interview he granted to the National Catholic Register, a weekly Catholic newspaper, Buck said there was nothing anti-Catholic about listing CFFC on the DNC’s website. As [...]

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