Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism

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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 [...]

1996 President Clinton's veto of the legislation banning Partial-Birth Abortion.

January A Catholic high school student applied for the Jefferson Scholars Program at the University of Virginia. He was asked the following questions about his religion during the course of an interview: "What is your relationship with God?"; "Do you believe in the infallibility of the Pope?"; "What if the Pope said something completely ridiculous, would [...]

1996 Austin, TX - Living Truth Ministries distributed a video, The Pope Over Jerusalem, which discusses the "unholy" plans of the Pope to reign over Jerusalem. Among the topics explored are the "hidden agenda of a high-ranking Catholic prelate...who acts as the chief strategist of the Vatican plot to conquer Jerusalem." Also discussed is the "surprising role to [...]

January Louisville, CO - Video Training Source made two videos about workplace violence prevention in which being religious was portrayed as a key characteristic. In "A Strategy for Prevention" the narrator said, "Many perpetrators are described as being religious or political extremists. This behavior further drives co-workers away." This statement is said as a close-up shot of a [...]

Before introducing the evidence, a few words are in order regarding some of the highlights of the year. While it is true that there are activist organizations that are clearly aligned against the Catholic Church (Catholics for a Free Choice comes quickly to mind), more common are activist organizations that pursue an agenda that clashes with [...]

January 2 San Francisco, CA - About 200 members of the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights, the Women's Action Coalition and other pro-choice groups demonstrated outside St. Mary's Cathedral, blocking the street to protest the shootings at abortion clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts and Virginia. Protesters mocked the Church by wearing religious apparel. Some held things [...]

January 4 - February 5 Millburn, NJ - In the play Forever Plaid, performed at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, a bus filled with Catholic youths hits a car, killing the occupants. This incident triggered a barrage of insults aimed at the Catholic teenagers, e.g., "What a way to die--being slammed by a bus of parochial virgins." [...]

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