For the past twenty years, the Catholic League published a newsletter describing the organization's events. As we begin our third decade, the Catholic League will change from publishing a newsletter to publishing a journal. Why the change? A newsletter is primarily a house organ, a publication that details internal matters. But Catalyst has a broader focus: [...]
At federal, state and local levels... The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is gravely concerned about the nature of recent government anti-AIDS programs. In a statement released January 16, Dr. William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League, presented the organization's position: "The central problem with many recent government anti-AIDS programs is that they [...]
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights joined with the Jewish Action Alliance and other civil rights organizations in condemning the hatred of spokesmen for the Nation of Islam. The following remarks were delivered at a press conference on January 25th in New York City. Dr. William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League, listed [...]
Officials of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts co-sponsored a conference on December 3, 1993 in Natick, Massachusetts which was attended by more than 300 public school administrators, teachers and health care personnel. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss adoption of a comprehensive sex education [...]
The nation's Catholic bishops have asked the major media networks to "reconsider" their decision to permit the airing of slick new Clinton adminstration sponsored commercials aimed at promoting the use of condoms. The spots, which began airing in early January, encourage promiscuity while ignoring the relative ineffectiveness of condoms in preventing the transmission of disease. Given [...]
Our dictionary says that a catalyst is "an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action." After twenty years, we felt that it was time we gave our newsletter a name that truly reflects what the Catholic League is about. Catholic League founder Father Virgil Blum, S.J. took a lot of criticism when he called [...]
The Catholic League views with alarm the extent to which allegations against Catholic priests for sex abuse have been uncritically received by the media and have then been used by anti-Catholic forces to discredit the entire Catholic Church. The recent charge brought against Chicago archbishop Cardinal Joseph Bernardin is a case in point. In a statement [...]
League exposes "letterhead" organization Within weeks of the first public admission - during a radio debate with a Catholic League representative - that "Catholics for Free Choice" (CFFC) is a memberless, well-financed "letterhead" organization, the nation's Catholic bishops have issued a strongly worded denunciation of the group. On November 4, the Administrative Committee of the National [...]
Offensive ads depicting pop star Madonna and the Virgin Mary and Infant Jesus quickly came down from New York City public buses and telephone booths in the wake of a firestorm of protest initiated by the Catholic League in late September. The ads, which bore the legend "The difference between you and your parents," promoted VH-1, [...]
by Patrick Riley A nationally heralded report that aims at "bridging the gap" between religion and the news media features a dismissive critique of a similar study sponsored by the Catholic League and the Knights of Columbus (Media Coverage of the Catholic Church) and chalks up perceived bias as simply lack of knowledge on the part of reporters. [...]
