The Catholic League is calling for a boycott of "The Golden Compass"; the movie opens December 7. It is based on the first book of a trilogy titled, His Dark Materials. The author of this children's fantasy is Philip Pullman, a noted English atheist. It is his objective to bash Catholicism and promote atheism. To kids. "The [...]
On September 4, Bill Donohue spoke at a press conference in New York City registering his misgivings over a new publicly funded "Arabic" school that opened in Brooklyn. The rally was held on the steps of City Hall and was attended by prominent Catholic and Jewish leaders. The reason for using quotation marks to describe the [...]
Beginning in the spring, and ending over the summer, the Catholic League was able to persuade Random House to make substantive revisions to its Fodor's Travel Guides. Deleted were several objectionable references to Catholicism, remarks that should never have appeared in reference books. As far back as 2000, we received complaints about the Fodor series. At [...]
As expected, Amnesty Inter-national, the group that monitors human rights around the world, approved an abortion-rights policy at its biennial conference in Mexico City; the policy was first adopted this past spring. Responding to criticism from the Vatican, as well as from American bishops, Amnesty issued a news release on June 14 saying that it does [...]
The Catholic League's patience with "The View" ran out on May 31. That was the day the ABC show attacked Catholicism for the 15th time since September; it was the second hit to occur within a two-week period. Our response was to finger the show's co-owner, Barbara Walters, as the guilty party in a New York Times op-ed [...]
We have an update on the anti-Catholic resolution that was passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors last year: we filed a complaint of judicial misconduct against Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, and it has been accepted as worthy of investigation. Readers of Catalyst will recall that the Catholic League objected when the resolution in question [...]
On April 18, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the congressional ban on partial-birth abortion by a margin of 5-4; all five Catholics on the high court affirmed the ban. We predicted—accurately as it turned out—that the bigots would seize on the outcome. "The pushback from conservative Catholics was immediate—even pre-emptive," the New York Times said on its website. [...]
On April 25, Rosie O'Donnell said on the ABC show, "The View," that she was not coming back next season; she is quitting in June. We are proud that the New York Times credited the Catholic League for playing a major role in taking her down; it cited all the protesting e-mails we triggered. In the week prior [...]
From April 1 to April 7, the Roger Smith Lab Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York City was set to display a 6-foot tall anatomically correct sculpture of Jesus in milk chocolate; the figure was depicted as crucified. But thanks to a protest led by the Catholic League, it never saw the light [...]
On April 4, the Comedy Central show "South Park" lampooned Bill Donohue. Donohue appeared as one of the cartoon characters, along with a figure of Pope Benedict XVI. The Easter script depicted Donohue chastising the pope for being "too soft." Donohue then takes over as pope. When a Jesus figure appears, Donohue has both the pope [...]
