By Rep. Henry Hyde Henry Hyde has represented the Sixth Congressional District of Illinois since 1975. He is acknowledged to be the most eloquent and effective defender of unborn children in the Congress of the United States. In 1983, the Catholic League bestowed on him its highest honor, The John Paul II Religious Freedom Award.This article first [...]
Every now and then an event occurs that makes me feel very proud to be a Catholic. One such event recently happened while I was waiting to testify before the New York City Council on a bill that protects houses of worship. As readers of Catalyst already know, Catholic churches have come under increasing attack by [...]
By C. Joseph Doyle C. Joseph Doyle is the Massachusetts-based Operations Director of the Catholic League. This article, reprinted here with permission, appeared in the January 1994 issue of The Catholic World Report. Frances Kissling and her Catholics for Free Choice have been in the news again, though not for the usual reasons. Kissling's specialty is [...]
by William A. Donohue This month's feature article is an edited excerpt from Catholic League president William A. Donohue's forthcoming book, Twilight of Liberty: The Legacy of the ACLU (Transaction Press, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ). It may be obtained from the publisher and will be offered in this newsletter as soon as it is available. When [...]
By Damian P. Fedoryka, Ph.D. Our country seems to be in the grip of a curious consensus. At a time when pluralism is the inevitable consequence of radical differences of opinion, one "slogan" seems to have a unifying power: it is the supposed principle that not all of morality can be legislated. A famous, one might [...]
All of us learned as children the simple but profound words that Abraham Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg. He reminded his listeners that our forefathers had created "a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." And much of what he said on that November day in 1863 is [...]
From My Viewpoint by Cardinal John O'Connor According to Ray Kerrison of the New York Post (Sept. 27, 1993), Mr. Bill Donohue has written a letter to Mayor Dinkins about the almost unbelievable ad plastered on the sides of city buses, public property. The ad presents Madonna, whom Mr. Kerrison calls "the pop freak who peddles [...]
The Catholic League has filed a friend of the court brief with the Massachusetts Supreme Court in support of Catholic brothers who were sued for discrimination because they refused to rent an apartment to a unmarried heterosexual couple. The brothers, Paul and Ronald Desilets, declined to rent their apartment to a cohabiting couple because they believed [...]
by Dennis Prager The following article is the edited text of the opening statement in a debate at Oxford University on March 3, 1993. Under the auspices of Oxford's Chabad Rabbi Shmuel Boteach, Dennis Prager debated Jonathan Glover, a lecturer in moral philosophy at Oxford. The full text of the entire debate appeared in Ultimate Issues (Vol. [...]
by Kenneth D. Whitehead What about the real situation of family values or moral values in America today? Is there any kind of social or moral crisis or anything resembling one out there? The truth of the matter is that quite an impressive amount of data has now been accumulated, and quite a number of studies [...]
