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For over three and a half centuries, the trial of Galileo has been an anti-Catholic bludgeon wielded to show the Church as the enemy of enlightenment, freedom of thought and scientific advancement. In the cultural wars of our own day, Galileo has become an all-encompassing trump card, played whether the discussion is over science, abortion, gay [...]
Time has a thing about Catholicism. We don’t know exactly why, but it is clear that the magazine treats the Church with great suspicion. And that’s putting it kindly. In a November 15 story on Catholic hospital mergers with non-Catholic institutions, Timeflagged the story in its index by questioning, "Are church-run institutions imposing their faith on patients?" In [...]
William A. Donohue The new millennium actually doesn’t begin until the year 2001, but I don’t want to quibble with conventional wisdom, so I’ll pretend that we are now finishing the 20th century. The serious question that needs to be addressed is, "What is the state of anti-Catholicism at the end of the century"? There are two [...]
1996 In a catalog of its books, Barnes & Noble featured a long description of a book called The Love Affairs of the Vatican. Calling the book "controversial," it read: "He [the author] also reveals that the immorality of the Catholic clergy was the direct result of the law of enforced celibacy imposed by Pope Gregory VII [...]
January Request magazine published a painting under the headline, "10 Things Jesus Christ and Michael Jackson have in Common," in which Michael Jackson was made to look like Jesus Christ, complete with halo. Among the ten things held in common were: "Oprah claims personal relationship to both;" "Suffer the little children to come unto me;" "Needed 12 [...]
Examples of anti-Catholic bigotry that appear in this report are culled from activist organizations, the arts, commercial establishments, education, government, the media and the workplace; acts of violence are also detailed. The commentary that follows will address each of these areas. But first a word about the difference between criticism of the Catholic Church and rank [...]
By C. Joseph Doyle C. Joseph Doyle is the Massachusetts-based Operations Director of the Catholic League. This article, reprinted here with permission, appeared in the January 1994 issue of The Catholic World Report. Frances Kissling and her Catholics for Free Choice have been in the news again, though not for the usual reasons. Kissling's specialty is [...]
by Kenneth D. Whitehead What about the real situation of family values or moral values in America today? Is there any kind of social or moral crisis or anything resembling one out there? The truth of the matter is that quite an impressive amount of data has now been accumulated, and quite a number of studies [...]
