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We took up a very serious case at Christmastime, hoping to bring relief to a man who has paid his dues and has been through enough. We asked Catholics to appeal to President Donald Trump to release Pornchai Moontri from the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He deserves to be repatriated to Thailand. [...]
CHILDREN OF TERROR Inge Auerbacher and Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride This book tells the unforgettable stories of two young girls, one a Catholic from Poland, the other a Jew from Germany, who are caught in a web of terror during World War II. Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride is a member of the Catholic League and is very active [...]
Pornchai Moontri is finally back in his home country of Thailand. In December, we asked our email subscribers to sign a White House petition requesting that he be released from the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Our supporters responded with vigor and we quickly learned that the Thailand embassy was contacted by ICE [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the status of Pornchai Moontri, the ex-convict whose plight, as we previously noted, is jarring: Pornchai Moontri is finally back in his home country of Thailand. In December, we asked our email subscribers to sign a White House petition requesting that he be released from the custody of the [...]
Bill in the news: These Stone Walls: Note to readers from Father Gordon MacRae: I would be remiss if I excluded The Catholic League for Religious & Civil Rights from my list of loud and clear Catholic, voices concerned for the rights of priests. The Catholic League could not have been more vocal in its concern for me as [...]
Father Gordon J. MacRae This article is expanded from a commentary by the same author entitled “Crime and Punishment” published in the November 2008 issue of First Things. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for his work on a phenomenon in psychology and marketing called “availability bias.” Kahneman demonstrated the human tendency [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the sexual abuse of minors: Most Americans are truly outraged over the sexual abuse of minors, but there are many who feign anger. Take Mark Ruffalo, star of "Spotlight": he held a protest outside a Cathedral—almost no one showed up—before the Oscars. Upon receiving his award, the movie's screenwriter, Josh Singer, took [...]
By Gordon J. MacRae Three years before the latest wave of clergy sex abuse claims rippled out of Boston across the country, Sean Murphy, age 37, and his mother, Sylvia, demanded $850,000 from the Archdiocese of Boston. Sean claimed that three decades earlier, he and his brother were repeatedly molested by their parish priest. In support [...]
