The Catholic League is pleased that Random House has agreed to make changes to the following entries (in italics) in its Fodor's guidebooks. The alterations to be made, as detailed by Fodor's vice president and publisher Timothy Jarrell, are also outlined here: From Mexico 2007: Outside the Antigua Basílica stands a statue of Juan Diego, who became [...]
On August 7, CNN did a report on the opening of “Gay Street” in Rome, a section frequented by homosexuals. The network's Rome bureau chief, Alessio Vinci, concluded his report this way: "In a country where practically everyone is Catholic, the words of the pope still carry some weight. And although the Vatican did not comment [...]
An e-mail was circulated in late July among evangelicals in Iowa asking them not to split the Christian vote between former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and Kansas Senator Sam Brownback; they were urged to vote for Huckabee, an evangelical, over Brownback, a Roman Catholic. The letter stemmed from Walnut Creek Community Church in Windsor Heights. [...]
On August 3, ThinkFilm released "The Ten," a movie composed of 10 different vignettes depicting characters breaking each of the Ten Commandments. The Catholic League's own Kiera McCaffrey watched the film and found it to be absolutely asinine. The skits, all absurd comedy, are a mix of the vulgar, the scatological and the blasphemous. Amidst characters [...]
During a five-week stretch in June and July, the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" ridiculed priests six times and the pope once; all of the priest jokes were sexual in nature and painted priests as molesters. · June 18: Robin Williams gets into an extended diatribe about priests as pedophiles · June 20: Leno cracks a joke about [...]
The San Diego Minutemen, an anti-illegal immigrant group not affiliated with either the Minute-man Project or the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, chose to target St. Peter's Catholic Church in Fallbrook, California. Some of the Minutemen's protests were accompanied by anti-Catholic bigotry. Father Edward "Bud" Kaicher, pastor of the suburban San Diego parish, extended a helping hand [...]
Looks like our New York Times op-ed page ad of June 12 worked. That was the ad which questioned, "What's Happened to Barbara Walters?" The ad was written to pressure Walters, co-owner of "The View," to get her panelists in line: we recounted 15 occasions where anti-Catholic remarks were voiced on the program over the previous nine months. [...]
A congressional committee tried to snub a prominent U.S. cardinal. The Catholic League acted, and the committee backed down. That we achieved a victory shouldn't surprise anyone—we've achieved lots of them. But the fact that it happened in a matter of mere hours was truly noteworthy. Here's what happened: On July 19, the New York Post reported that [...]
On July 18, Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop David Zubik the new Bishop of Pittsburgh. A native Pittsburgher, he was greeted with enthusiasm by most area residents. A noticeable exception was the way John McIntire of WTZN-FM reacted. McIntire sported his anti-Catholic colors by making several coarse statements about Bishop Zubik’s reception with local children. "That's [...]
"Goya's Ghosts," an English-language film released in Europe in 2006, opened in the United States on July 20. Set in Spain in 1792, the story recounts the fate of Inés, a young woman (a friend of the painter Francisco Goya), who is arrested by the Holy Office of the Inquisition after being accused of secretly practicing [...]
