The lead article in the last issue of Catalyst was on the latest flap at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It involved the Catholic League’s criticism of "Yo Mama’s Last Supper," a photographic exhibit that featured artist Renee Cox appearing nude as Jesus in a rendition of the Last Supper. On February 20, Donohue debated Cox at the [...]
As soon as the media found out about the latest anti-Catholic exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, they contacted the Catholic League. We immediately launched a national protest that was enjoined by many notables on both sides. "The Today Show," the New York Times, CNN and Fox News Channel were only a few of the [...]
Time Out New York is a glossy magazine with a gay edge that covers New York social and cultural events. In its January 4-11 edition, it featured a discussion of the best and worst of 2000 in many categories. In the Gay & Lesbian section, the top listing for "The Best" of 2000 read as follows: Cardinal John [...]
Every Christmas season is a busy time for the Catholic League, but this past Christmas broke the record. Radical secularists across the nation went berserk trying to stamp out the religious significance of the holiday. Our response was equally unyielding. Just as December began, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) wasted no time issuing a pamphlet, "The December [...]
On Nov. 13, the News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware ran a story on a "nationally known Holocaust educator Jack P. McGough." McGough had spoken the day before at the student center on the campus of the University of Delaware (UD) in Newark; he was identified as a professor at UD. The Jewish Federation of Delaware sponsored his talk, [...]
Following a protest by the Catholic League, a 24 year-old copy editor in Spokane, Washington was asked to resign after she labeled Gonzaga University president Rev. Robert Spitzer a "Nazi priest" in the pages of the Spokesman-Review. On November 8, the Spokane daily ran a short piece entitled, "Nazi priest promotes his book." The story was simply [...]
The same "Earth’s Final Warning" ads that the Catholic League has fought around the country appeared recently in the Athens Messenger in Athens, Ohio and The Sun in San Bernardino, California. Fortunately, the publishers of both newspapers pledged never to run them again. The Athens Messenger ran the offensive ad on October 4. It was sponsored by a splinter group of the [...]
The publishers of two more newspapers that ran the “Earth’s Final Warning” hate ads have apologized in print. Roger Kintzel of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Michael E. Waller of the Baltimore Sun apologized to readers for running the anti-Catholic ads; they appeared on August 26 and October 8-9, respectively. William Cardinal Keeler of Baltimore criticized his local newspaper for running [...]
“Hannity and Colmes,” Fox News, 8/24/00 Pro-abortion advocate Virginia Saporta says ads that are opposed to partial birth abortion are “inflammatory.” William Donohue responds, “Let me tell you what! Inflammatory? You cannot discuss killing a baby who’s 80 percent born without it being inflammatory! It is the procedure that is inflammatory, not the rhetoric, lady!”
Most of the reporting of Rome’s World Youth Day was fair and balanced. But there was one story that we objected to that rendered an unusual result: most of the offensive parts of the story were dropped from future web postings. The story in question appeared August 17 on the ABC News website, ABCNEWS.com. Reporter Sue [...]
