In a recent editorial the New York Times said, “The attacks of Sept. 11 were not a religious event. They were mass murder.” The New York Times was half right: the attacks of 9/11 were mass murder, but to say they were not a religious event is delusional. What were they? Celebrations of separation of church and state? The FBI [...]
For three consecutive days in July, the high-profile media outlets of the New York Times and Time magazine showed their collective brazenness by bashing the Catholic Church on its policy regarding women’s ordination. On July 17, the Church was the subject of a critical editorial in the Times, the following day, columnist Maureen Dowd joined in on the attack. Both pieces [...]
The Catholic League scored a victory this summer, with the help of a member, in pulling an anti-Catholic ring from the Crow’s Nest Trading Company’s website and catalog. The item, “Catholic Ring,” was a sterling silver piece of jewelry with the inscription of “Recovering Catholic” emblazoned on it. We got word that Crow’s Nest was selling [...]
On August 14, President Barack Obama announced that he supports the right of Muslims to build a mosque near Ground Zero. Technically speaking, the president was right: the government has no business telling any religion where to build a house of worship. But the real issue is whether Muslims should build a mosque near this hallowed [...]
In August, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made remarks endorsing the building of a controversial mosque near Ground Zero. Regrettably, the mayor’s record in dealing with issues affecting Catholics has not been so robust. Just last month, he was almost alone in his refusal to criticize the Empire State Building owner Anthony Malkin’s decision not [...]
In July, the New York Times ran a front-page article that attempted to blame Pope Benedict XVI for the sexual abuse scandal. As it did in March, the paper failed to do so. In the article, we were told that when Joseph Ratzinger (now the pope) was in charge of the Office of the Congregation for the Doctrine [...]
A week after the New York Times tried to tag the pope again, it ran an editorial taking Pope Benedict XVI to task for being too lenient in dealing with priestly sexual abuse. Within no time, we hit right back at the paper. When New York State was considering two bills dealing with the sexual abuse of minors, [...]
In a recent post on the Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog site, Chris Korzen of Catholics United, a fraudulent Catholic organization, lectured the bishops for being misinformed about the health care bill that they opposed. He said “the USCCB’s [United States Conference of Catholic Bishops] opinion was based on a misunderstanding of the bill’s abortion funding provisions.” In [...]
Recently we have been asked to comment on some of the actions taken by young female stars who were raised Catholic. After a poster for the upcoming movie, “Machete,” was revealed showing Lindsay Lohan dressed in a nun’s habit licking the barrel of a gun, we said, “Lindsay doesn’t have what it takes to tease the [...]
In a recent column in the New York Times, writer Frank Rich called Mel Gibson a “bigoted blowhard,” branding his movie “The Passion of the Christ” anti-Semitic; he also attacked several Christian leaders who befriended Gibson, including Bill Donohue. If Rich were as sensitive to anti-Catholicism as he is anti-Semitism, there would be no problem. But the [...]
