January 24 Newburyport, MA - Newburyport Mayor Lisa Mead ordered that two bricks in a park walkway be removed. People were able to "buy" the bricks and inscribe them with a personal message as a fundraiser for a park . Of the 200 bricks purchased, the two were ordered removed after the mayor received complaints from certain [...]
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 [...]
January 4 New York, NY - Jack Chick’s anti-Catholic pamphlets were distributed in various New York City phone booths. The pamphlet is called "Last Rites" and described a practicing Catholic being condemned to Hell by Jesus because he believed in the "false teachings" of the Catholic Church. January 21-22 Edison, NJ - Vandals desecrated a statue of the [...]
Some of the highlights of 2000 are recounted here, drawn from the various thematic sections that make up this report. The year 2000 saw a presidential election. The Catholic League is not a political organization, nor does it align itself with any political party or agenda. However, the Catholic League speaks out when the political process [...]
March 10 Pro-abortion groups from around the country celebrated a "National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers." The event was organized by a group called "Refuse and Resist!" On the group's website, it described a "Christian fascist, fundamentalist morality" that has taken over the country. Joining the group was Catholics for a Free Choice, an anti-Catholic [...]
March 23 New York, NY — The Whitney Museum hosted a display that included a work by German artist Hans Haacke called "Sanitation." The title was a play on words on the title of the controversial exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art called "Sensation" which featured elephant dung and pornographic pictures on the picture of a [...]
February Brooklyn, NY — The Morning Star Christian Books and Gift Store in Brooklyn featured publications by the notoriously anti-Catholic publisher Jack Chick. The store had a large display right near the front door that featured booklets such as Are Roman Catholics Christians, Double Cross and The Godfathers. Each was a direct attack on the Catholic Church [...]
January Sarasota, FL — The Sarasota County Superintendent of Schools David Bennett was profiled in Sarasota magazine. In the profile, Mr. Bennett was quoted as saying his interest in civil rights started when, as a child in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s, he heard that the Catholic Church was buying up homes in certain areas so [...]
February Shirley, MA — Inmates in a state prison had their rosary beads confiscated in what prison officials claim was a crackdown on gang-related violence. A court determined the corrections department could "curtail inmates rights in order to achieve legitimate correctional goals." Prisoners who say their right to worship is in jeopardy are appealing to a higher [...]
Movies January The movie "Boondock Saints" portrayed two Irish Catholic twins who decide to go on a killing spree after hearing a sermon at Mass. The sermon is about the results of good men doing nothing to stop evil. The film contains extensive use of Catholic imagery including oversized crucifixes worn by the main characters during [...]
