April Issue 2001

TED TURNER INSULTS CATHOLICS; APOLOGY FOLLOWS PROTEST

By |2013-08-01T19:14:13-04:00April 23rd, 2001|Categories: Catalyst, Front Page|Tags: |

On March 6, Brit Hume of Fox News Network reported that CNN founder Ted Turner stunned CNN employees in Washington when he made an anti-Catholic remark on Ash Wednesday. Seeing ashes on the foreheads of some workers, Turner said, "What are you? A bunch of Jesus freaks? You ought to be working for Fox." The Catholic [...]

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Daily Variety

By |2013-08-01T19:15:19-04:00April 23rd, 2001|Categories: Catalyst, Front Page|Tags: |

Daily Variety printed the following headline on March 8: "Catholic League prexy gives Turner a sermon." It then quoted Donohue on Turner: "He may be just as dumb as John Rocker, but unlike the Atlanta pitcher, he occupies a position of significant influence in our culture." Which is why Donohue floated the idea of shipping Turner off [...]

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ART DEBATE ENSUES

By |2013-08-01T19:03:16-04:00April 23rd, 2001|Categories: Catalyst, Front Page|Tags: |

The lead article in the last issue of Catalyst was on the latest flap at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It involved the Catholic League’s criticism of "Yo Mama’s Last Supper," a photographic exhibit that featured artist Renee Cox appearing nude as Jesus in a rendition of the Last Supper. On February 20, Donohue debated Cox at the [...]

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JUSTIFYING ANTI-CATHOLIC BIGOTRY

By |2017-03-20T17:57:09-04:00April 23rd, 2001|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue Scenario: a group of so-called enlightened thinkers assemble to play a word association game. When they hear the term "bigotry," they respond by saying things like "anti-Semitism," "racism," and "sexism." It would never occur to them to say "anti-Catholicism." But why? It’s too easy to say that Jews, blacks and women have done [...]

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THE “BLACK LEGEND”: THE SPANISH INQUISITION

By |2017-03-20T17:57:09-04:00April 23rd, 2001|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

Most of the myths surrounding the Inquisition have come to us wrapped in the cloak of the Spanish Inquisition. It is the world of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum, with vivid descriptions of burning heretics, ghastly engines of torture with innocent Bible-believers martyred for their faith. In many ways, the reality of the Spanish [...]

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ABORTION PROPAGANDA

By |2013-08-01T19:24:56-04:00April 23rd, 2001|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

On February 8, Dr. Wayne Goldner appeared on the "The O’Reilly Factor" with Bill O’Reilly. In a debate on abortion, Dr. Goldner, who is an abortionist from New Hampshire, made the startling claim that in the 1950s there were as many abortions then as there are today. When O’Reilly challenged him, Dr. Goldner went even further [...]

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FAILED COMPARISON

By |2013-08-01T19:26:46-04:00April 23rd, 2001|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Hardly an Ash Wednesday comes and goes without an anti-Catholic incident. While Ted Turner took the prize this year, WJFK-FM in Virginia was runner-up; the show originates from WJFK in Washington, D.C. On February 28, "The Don and Mike show" aired a segment called "Ass Wednesday." It seems that Don Geronimo and Mike O’Meara’s idea of [...]

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TEXTBOOK CASE

By |2017-03-20T17:57:09-04:00April 23rd, 2001|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Catholic League members are familiar with the many ads that we’ve run on the op-ed page of the New York Times. We are most proud of the fact that some of these ads have been picked up by museums. Now we’ve made an entry in a college textbook, Making Sense of Media, authored by George Rodman. The book, [...]

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CHURCH VANDALS HIT FIVE STATES

By |2017-03-20T17:57:09-04:00April 23rd, 2001|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In February, Tucson metropolitan area was home to three separate incidents of church vandalism targeted at the same site. The acts occurred in a mortuary chapel next to the world-renowned Mission San Xavier del Bac near Tucson, Arizona. The first act, which happened on February 13, included the desecration of 35 of the 50 statues located [...]

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BOLD AS BRASS

By |2013-08-01T19:28:19-04:00April 23rd, 2001|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

There is hardly an issue of Catalyst in the last few years that hasn’t mentioned the hate ads placed in major newspapers by the Eternal Gospel Church. These are the ads that use biblical passages to condemn the Catholic Church as the Whore of Babylon, etc. Fortunately, most publishers listen to our complaints and agree not to run [...]

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