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MOVIES Winter The movie "Touch" told the story of a man who was a Christ-like figure for the 1990s. He is capable of performing miracles, but is uninterested in spreading the gospel. He enjoys spending time with a female companion. The usual nutty Catholics were showcased, willing to kill for a return of the Latin Mass. [...]
By William Doino Jr. (The Weekly Standard, June 12, 2006) The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis by David G. Dalin Regnery, 256 pp., $27.95 EVER SINCE THE GERMAN PLAYWRIGHT Rolf Hochhuth produced The Deputy--a long, unwatchable 1963 production that depicted Pope Pius XII as indifferent to the Holocaust--the notion [...]
Movies | Music | Newspapers | Periodicals | Radio |Television | Internet MOVIES February 9 The movie "Saving Silverman" opened nationally. The movie included a character who "is training to be a nun." The would-be nun is "subjected to all manner of sexual embarrassment and displayed in various stages of PG-13 acceptable undress." Vulgar nun jokes were included. The New York Post reviewer blasted the movie for [...]
February The Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song was revoked from the film "Alone Yet Not Alone." The film and the song of the same title had a strong evangelical Christian theme, and the song was sung by a well known evangelical artist. The official reason for revoking the nomination for only the fourth time [...]
Internet May 13 The Washington Post/Newsweek blog “On Faith” ran a panel discussion on priestly celibacy. About half of the panelists disagreed with the Church’s position on this matter but were not vicious in their criticism. Four of the panelists showed their vitriol: Pamela Taylor, co-founder of Muslims for Progressive Values; Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, former president of Chicago [...]
Below is Bill Donohue's letter of November 4 to U.S. Air Force Commander Colonel Craig Baker of the 180th Fighter Wing in Swanton, OH; a copy was sent to the Air Force Chief of Chaplains. I am writing to you in my capacity as president and CEO of the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organization, and [...]
We don’t complain about criticism of the Catholic Church, but we do complain about cheap shots. Here are a few recent examples. Newsday columnist Cheryl McCarthy doesn’t like the way Republicans have conducted the impeachment proceedings against the president. Fine. But why was it necessary for her to repeat what her friend told her about this? "It [...]
Bill in the news: CatholicPhilly.com: In a statement that didn’t name the Spadaro-Figueroa piece but, coming a day later, was apparently a response, Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, an anti-defamation group, traced the start of this interfaith convergence to the 1980s and the founding of the Moral Majority by [...]
