On September 8, there were several attempts to spin the truth about religion in various news reports: · “The Holocaust is nothing but a superstition,” opined another one of the Grand Ayatollahs from Iran, proving once again that education is no cure for evil. · The Grand Narcissist, Stephen Hawking, strained to tell us in his [...]
Every time a Christian group seeks a public expression of religion, it is challenged by atheist organizations like American Atheists and the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Yet when it came to the Hartford City Council inviting an imam to open their meeting with a prayer, American Atheists said nothing (even though we contacted them to see [...]
At the end of August, repeat Catholic offender Louis C.K. bashed the Catholic Church on an episode of his FX show “Louie.” When we got word that Louis C.K. was at it again, we had to watch the show. It was painful. But was it anti-Catholic? Sure. That was the point of it. After all, the [...]
Every now and then the media go into a spasm about one or another Catholic teaching they object to, and their latest outrage has been fixated on women’s ordination. They do not object that Orthodox Jews do not ordain women. They do not object that Islam has no role for female clergy. They only get upset [...]
When John Roberts was picked to be the fourth Catholic on the U.S. Supreme Court, Catholic bashers went nuts. Ditto for when Samuel Alito was nominated to be the fifth Catholic. Yet they were silent when Sonia Sotomayor was chosen to be the sixth Catholic. Is that because she was considered reliably liberal, and therefore not [...]
Images from the Mother Teresa Rally
Recently, an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois, Ken Howell, has been on a roller coaster ride regarding his employment at the school. Howell, who teaches courses on Catholicism, was fired for explaining in an e-mail that homosexuality violates Catholic natural law teachings. A few weeks later, after being hung out to dry by various [...]
It has been a busy summer for academics seeking to silence dissent on campus. Ken Howell, an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois, was accused of “hate speech” for teaching what the Catholic Church believes about homosexuality; he was fired but was eventually invited back for the fall. Julea Ward, a Christian student at Eastern [...]
Recently there has been a lot of news about author Anne Rice’s decision to quit Christianity while still professing a belief in Christ. Anne Rice started as a believing Catholic; then she quit the Church; then she rejoined the Church; now she has quit again. All of this is as amusing as it is sad, and [...]
Recently, Jay Leno has been on a tear bashing the Catholic Church on the “Tonight Show.” What began in April ran right through the summer and on July 7, Leno said: “Oh, and a Catholic priest in Connecticut has been charged with stealing $1.3 million in church money and using the money for male escorts. Of [...]
