Monthly Archives: June 2004

PERMIT DENIED

By |2013-06-25T19:17:38-04:00June 21st, 2004|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In May, we got an e-mail from Professor Sean Innerst of the St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in the Archdiocese of Denver asking our advice on how to handle an upcoming anti-Catholic event. A group of motorcycle bikers were planning a "Catholic School Girl Benefit Poker Run" that was replete with Catholic bashing. The event, scheduled [...]

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WHY JEWISH GROUPS PASSIONATELY HATE MEL GIBSON

By |2017-03-20T17:56:00-04:00June 21st, 2004|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

By Rabbi Daniel Lapin Surely it is now time to analyze the vitriolic loathing demonstrated by various Jewish groups and their leaders toward Mel Gibson over the past six months. This analysis might help forestall some similar ill-conceived and ill-fated future misadventure on the part of self-anointed Jewish leadership. At the very least it might advance [...]

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RELIGION AND POLITICS: BISHOPS SPEAK WITH CLARITY

By |2012-10-12T18:02:52-04:00June 21st, 2004|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president William Donohue commented today on the statement by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops,  “Catholics in Political Life,” that was issued June 18: “The bishops spoke with convincing clarity on the subject of politics and religion.  Though there are many public policy issues that Catholics are rightfully concerned about, none is more [...]

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Catholics and the Supreme Court: An Uneasy Relationship

By |2019-09-27T17:21:37-04:00June 19th, 2004|Categories: Church and State, White Papers and Essays|

by James Hitchcock (Catalyst 6/2004) Perhaps the most revolutionary changes on the Supreme Court began in the 1930's. That is when President Franklin D. Roosevelt began to choose justices inclined to approach the Constitution in a "broad" and "flexible" spirit. Some of his appointees were crudely anti-Catholic. Hugo L. Black (1937-71) was a lapsed Baptist who, [...]

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KERRY’S RELIGION OUTREACH DIRECTOR SILENCED

By |2017-03-20T17:56:00-04:00June 18th, 2004|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

In an article in today’s Washington Times, reporter Julia Duin says that Mara Vanderslice, the Kerry campaign’s director of religious outreach, is no longer permitted to talk to the press.  Vanderslice was exposed on June 14 in a Catholic League news release as being a far left-wing activist who has spoken at rallies held by the notoriously [...]

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CATHOLIC LEAGUE WINS IN “PLEDGE” CASE

By |2017-03-20T17:56:00-04:00June 14th, 2004|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president William Donohue commented today on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that declared the words “under God” to be a violation of the First Amendment: “Last year, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights filed a joint friend-of-the-court brief with the Thomas More Law Center [...]

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KERRY’S “RELIGION OUTREACH” DIRECTOR IS A GEM

By |2017-03-20T17:56:00-04:00June 14th, 2004|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Mara Vanderslice has been appointed Senator John Kerry’s Director of Religion Outreach.  Catholic League president William Donohue finds her a curious choice: “Here’s what we know about John Kerry’s religious outreach person.  Mara Vanderslice was raised without any faith and didn’t become an evangelical Christian until she attended Earlham College, a Quaker school known for its [...]

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STEM CELL ISSUE REACHES A HOT POINT

By |2017-03-20T17:56:01-04:00June 8th, 2004|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: , |

 The day before former President Ronald Reagan died, 58 senators sent a letter to President George W. Bush urging him to permit embryonic stem cell research.  The senators are now insisting that with the death of President Reagan, the issue has taken on greater urgency.  They cite the support that Nancy Reagan has shown for this [...]

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DURBIN’S SCORECARD GETS AN “F”

By |2019-09-20T19:16:19-04:00June 3rd, 2004|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois yesterday released a report, “Evaluating the Votes and Actions of Public Officials from a Catholic Perspective,” which ranks the twenty-four U.S. Catholic senators based on their votes in three areas: domestic, international and pro-life.  The issues were taken from a publication issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, “Faithful [...]

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