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by Robert P. Lockwood (3/2001) When Joseph Lieberman was nominated as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in the summer of 2000, commentators feared an upsurge in anti-Semitism in reaction to the Jewish senator from Connecticut. Reporters scanned the Internet to look for anti-Semitic sites and searching for anti-Semitic hate speech. For the most part, they found, other [...]
The Pope Pius XII Controversy A Review-Article By Kenneth D. Whitehead (The Political Science Reviewer, Volume XXXI, 2002) I. One of the most remarkable of phenomena in recent years has been the revival of the controversy over the role of Pope Pius XII during the Second World War, and, specifically, over that pontiff's stance with regard [...]
By Robert P. Lockwood (6/2001) The public debate over abortion was critical in a resurgent anti-Catholicism in the mid-1960s. With the cooperation of media, abortion became an ongoing battle waged in a war of words based on anti-Catholicism. The issue was quickly defined as Catholicism and its role in public life, rather than abortion itself. Pro-life [...]
By Robert P. Lockwood (6/2001) The public debate over abortion was critical in a resurgent anti-Catholicism in the mid-1960s. With the cooperation of media, abortion became an ongoing battle waged in a war of words based on anti-Catholicism. The issue was quickly defined as Catholicism and its role in public life, rather than abortion itself. Pro-life [...]
by Robert P. Lockwood (1/2001) When John Cornwell’s book Hitler’s Pope[1] was released in the United States in 1999 it generated intense media coverage. Cornwell painted Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) as virtually a silent collaborator in the face of Nazi Germany’s "Final Solution." While the alleged "silence" of Pius XII was central to media coverage, Cornwell’s thesis went [...]
by Robert P. Lockwood (book review, 1/2001) When John Cornwell’s book Hitler’s Pope[1] was released in the United States in 1999 it generated intense media coverage. Cornwell painted Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) as virtually a silent collaborator in the face of Nazi Germany’s "Final Solution." While the alleged "silence" of Pius XII was central to media coverage, Cornwell’s [...]
March 2003 - Present The following quotes represent some of the most unfair statements on Mel Gibson and his film, "The Passion of the Christ." The selections in each category are in reverse chronological order. Organizational Responses: Ad Hoc Committee of Catholic and Jewish Scholars * America, April 5, 2004; Philip Cunningham: "'The Passion of the Christ' [...]
The following is a list of some of the more incendiary remarks made about the Mel Gibson movie, "The Passion of the Christ." We do not maintain that it is anti-Catholic to criticize a film, even before it has been released, but we do contend that the hostility to Gibson and to his work is unseemly. [...]
