Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an e-mail sent to the Catholic League by Rev. Robert Ullman of the Elmhurst College Board of Trustees: On May 2, the Catholic League issued a news release on the obscene anti-Catholic talk given by Dan Savage at Elmhurst College on April 29. On May 7, we received an e-mail [...]
The invitation of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak at Georgetown University is yet another indication of that school’s compromised Catholic identity. The Archdiocese of Washington strongly criticized Georgetown with an editorial in the Catholic Standard, calling the university’s response to Sebelius “disappointing, but not surprising.” Another disappointing signal this month was the letter signed by nearly [...]
Bill Donohue: “There are few Catholic writers in North America who are as appealing as Michael Coren, and when it comes to demonstrating wit on TV, the Canadian host is in a league of his own. His new book, Heresy: Ten Lies They Spread About Christianity, is as entertaining as his previous work, Why Catholicism is [...]
Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Mexico this year would not have been possible under the brutally anti-Catholic Calles regime of 1920’s Mexico, the setting of “For Greater Glory,” the new film out in theaters June 1. The movie dramatically portrays a government crack-down on the Catholic Church with such measures as a prohibition on the public [...]
Bill Donohue: In the last edition of Catalyst, I said that Father Robert Imbelli had not criticized an anti-Catholic ad placed by an atheist group in the New York Times, and that he made light of a cartoon mocking Cardinal Dolan. He contacted me about this and we had an honest exchange. He insists that his [...]
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Joseph A. Varacalli, Ph.D. Stephen M. Krason, The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic. Transaction Publishers, 2012. To order visit www.transactionpub.com or call 1-888-999-6778. American civilization is in the midst of a cultural and political crisis of unprecedented proportions. The crisis is multi-faceted with all its aspects interrelated and mutually shaping. One facet involves the expansion [...]
The jury in the trial of two Philadelphia Catholic priests has reached a verdict. Msgr. William Lynn was acquitted of conspiracy; on the two charges of child endangerment, he was acquitted on one of them, and found guilty on the other. The jury was deadlocked on two charges against Rev. James Brennan: one for attempted rape, [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Viacom’s ethics: When Comedy Central flashed a picture of a naked woman with her legs spread and a nativity scene ornament in between—what Jon Stewart called “the vagina manger”—Viacom’s executives weren’t the slightest bit offended (Comedy Central is owned by Viacom). But these same people got ticked off recently when Don Rickles [...]
