Candidates for state and federal office, Republican and Democrat alike, have addressed the subject of politics and religion more this election year than in previous ones. Speaking to this issue today is Catholic League president William Donohue: "Candidates for public office are often guilty of pandering to special interest groups, and that occasionally includes religious groups [...]
Remarks by Rep. Dick Armey yesterday have muddied the House Chaplain issue even further. A report in today’s Dallas Morning News says that Armey did not know the denominations of the finalists for the job. Catholic League president William Donohue picked up on this today: "First Rep. Armey wanted us to believe that he didn’t know that Father [...]
Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate yesterday by sending the wrong message to Catholics. "I’ll be on your side in the fight against school vouchers, which drain taxpayer dollars from our public schools," she said. However, on December 14, 1999, Mrs. Clinton told 100 Orthodox Jewish leaders that she would back certain [...]
The Catholic League’s opposition to the selection process of the new House Chaplain has triggered outrage among Republicans. Some of the lobbying efforts have been improper and this is what Catholic League president William Donohue addressed today: "If someone working for the Catholic Church, or for the Catholic League, were to call a congressman’s office and [...]
The recent sex survey of Roman Catholic priests by the Kansas City Star has just been analyzed by two leading statisticians: David Murray, research director at the Statistical Assessment Service and S. Robert Lichter, president of the Center for Media and Public Affairs. They have independently posted their review of the survey at newswatch.org. They said that "few [...]
At a press conference yesterday, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani spoke against the seizure of a Russian Orthodox Church by Palestinian police in the West Bank. On January 15, the Jericho Garden Monastery was taken from the "White" Russian Orthodox Church and turned over to the "Red'' Russian Orthodox Church; the "Red" Church is so-named because [...]
After reading the three-part series on the sex lives of Catholic priests in the Kansas City Star, Catholic League president William Donohue said today: "An examination of the data shows that exactly one-half of one percent of priests have HIV or AIDS, and exactly 3.6 percent are critical of the way the Church has responded to this [...]
