William A. Donohue Every time I think I've heard it all, I'm proven wrong. There is never a dull moment at the Catholic League. Consider what happened during Lent alone. James Cameron of "Titanic" fame threw the first major salvo of the season by arguing, along with Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino, that the Jesus family [...]
by David French Emily Brooker is a recent honors graduate in social work from Missouri State University. A bright and attractive young woman, she has a ready smile, a heart for serving the poor, and an enduring stain on an otherwise sterling academic record. University of Florida student Christine Miller is one of the most engaging [...]
William Rearick, Schools Superintendent of the Tiverton Public Schools in Rhode Island, banned the Easter Bunny from appearing at a March 24 fundraising event at the Tiverton Middle School. He also banned the word "Easter" from all school events. He told the Providence Journal that during the last year and a half, he has become more aware of [...]
After "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" premiered on March 4, the Discovery Channel yanked three scheduled repeats of the film. Given that the film's claims of Jesus' bones being discovered in an ancient ossuary have been unanimously rejected by archaeologists and scholars, this wasn't surprising—at least not to us. But the film's creators, Simcha Jacobovici and [...]
On March 27, an anonymous journalism student wrote a very obscene column in The Lantern, a student newspaper at Ohio State University, titled "Going Down with the Catholics." Her remarks included a smear regarding the Immaculate Conception Though The Lantern receives no money from the university, it is afforded a place on the campus, and is therefore subsidized by [...]
Exposing acts of anti-Catholic bigotry is, of course, our specialty at the Catholic League. We blow the whistle on those responsible, be they the perpetrators or the enablers. On Ash Wednesday, February21, the perpetrator was a substitute teacher at a public high school in Georgia. The enabler? The local board of education superintendent, who pooh-poohed the [...]
A Catholic state trooper for the South Carolina Highway Patrol informed us that he was ordered by his supervisor to remove ashes from his forehead on Ash Wednesday. The trooper had come on duty after attending church that day. The trooper was told to wipe off the ashes on the grounds that they violated Highway Patrol [...]
On March 26, the Los Angeles Times printed an article by John Spano that gave credence to a totally baseless charge by attorney Irwin Zelkin, who is handling sex-abuse lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Zelkin told the Times that Catholics are permitted to skirt the truth under oath in order to protect the best interests of the Catholic [...]
In an April 5 Los Angeles Times column, George Skelton criticized Cardinal Roger Mahony because Mahony, the Los Angeles Archbishop, expressed disappointment with a Catholic public official, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, for supporting a bill that would authorize doctor-assisted suicide. Skelton referred to the Catholic Church as "looking like an ugly old political attack dog," accusing the cardinal [...]
In mid-April, talk-show radio host Don Imus was blasted for anon-air racial comment directed at the Rutgers University women's basketball team. There were demands from numerous quarters that Imus be fired—we couldn't help but contrast these calls for Imus' head with the way Catholic-bashing is so often dismissed as "free speech." Two years ago, Penn Jillette [...]
