In one sense, it sounds like an awfully dumb question to ask "Are Catholics Christians?" It is a matter of historical record that the Catholic Church is the world's longest living institutional testimony to Christianity. But as the sociologist W.I. Thomas once said, "perception is reality," and on that count, it may very well be that [...]
By William A. Donohue In his encyclical letter, Evangelium Vitae, Pope John Paul II warns against what he calls a "perverse freedom," one that awards "absolute power over others and against others," resulting, he says, in a "culture of death." His concern is borne out of the reality that "broad sectors of public opinion justify certain [...]
By Most Reverend Donald W. Wuerl Bishop of Pittsburgh If you have ever watched a child look for the inconsistency in a "What is wrong with this picture?" puzzle, you have seen the joy of discovery as the child points out a bird flying upside down or circles a clown with his head on backwards. Recently, [...]
By Dale O'Leary The following is an excerpt from Dale O'Leary's monograph, "Gender: The Deconstruction ofWomen." Dale is a frequent commentator on international issues. It is especially timely given the commencement of the Fourth World Conference on Women on September 4; it extends to September 15 and is being held in Beijing, China. At the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) [...]
By K. D. Whitehead If there are still any Catholics around today who imagine that their faith and their Church are going to be the beneficiaries of tolerance and respect, these Catholics have evidently not been paying very close attention to the kind of world it is that has been emerging out there in recent years. [...]
by Waller W. Benjamin My boyhood years during the 1940s were spent in a small town in southwestern Minnesota. There were many virtues in that idyllic community but religious tolerance and ecumenism were not among them. The virus of anti-Catholicism was as pervasive then as was polio during the dog days of July and August. Only [...]
By William A. Donohue, Ph. D Surveys of American Catholics abound, so why is there a need for another one? Because those who have commissioned such surveys haven't asked all the right questions, that's why. It's not as though those who have done the polling have been incompetent or dishonest, it's just that, for a variety [...]
John Cardinal O'Connor Archbishop of New York Every once in a while a movie reminds you of how lucky you are, especially if you don't even have to go see it. Michael Medved's reviews are usually good enough for me. When he calls a movie blatantly anti-Catholic, I usually don't bother checking further. This time, out [...]
By William A. Donohue The movie "Priest" is a cruel caricature of Roman Catholic priests, one that is so blatantly unrepresentative of most priests as to qualify as an invidious stereotype of the Catholic clergy. Worse, the movie invites the audience to see the Catholic Church as the causative agent of priestly despair. There are five [...]
By Robert H. Bork The text of the First Amendment is quite simple: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress [...]
