Chicago Chapter The chapter hosted League president Bill Donohue at its August advisory board meeting. While in town Donohue was interviewed by the New World (Archdiocese of Chicago) and the Northwest Indiana Catholic (diocese of Gary). Effective October 1, the chapter office and executive director Tom O'Connell (A.K.A. Midwest Regional Director O'Connell!) will be relocating to [...]
NEW YORK NEWSDAY 9/8/93 I read with amusement Gabriel Rotella's Cityscape column, "Catholic Bashing: The Cry of Cowards." As president of the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organization ... I can assure Rotella that the Catholic League does not object to criticism of the Catholic Church. But that doesn't mean that we don't object when militant [...]
Dr. Joycelyn Elders, President Clinton's nominee for the post of Surgeon General, is on record as being anti-Catholic. The Catholic League, in a July 22 news release, quoted several public statements by Elders indicative of her hostility towards the Catholic Church. (The full text of the League news release appears on pg. 2). Bishop James T [...]
In a lead editorial on Monday, August 2, the Washington Post called Catholic League criticism of Dr. Joycelyn Elders "right." The editorial dismissed opposition to Elders because of her stands on "sex education, abortion and contraception." But when it came to the League's criticism of Elders as anti-Catholic, the Post acknowledged there was a problem: Over the [...]
My children still play many of the same games that I used to play as a child. One of them is make-believe. The point of this game is to pretend, to make-believe that you are someone else. As such, kids can quickly become firefighters, nurses, detectives, teachers, and so on. All that is needed is some [...]
Dear Father: If, from your place in Heaven, you give an occasional glance towards earth, I know you are pleased with the League you founded and with its strong new leadership. Even more you rejoice that people of every faith, and even nonbelievers, are now laboring all over the nation to achieve your goal of freedom [...]
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is unalterably opposed to anti-Catholicism whenever and wherever it occurs. That is why it views with alarm the public statements of Dr. Joycelyn Elders, presidential nominee for Surgeon General. When Dr. Elders was serving as Director of the Arkansas Department of Health, she made several statements that demonstrated [...]
In the wake of new restrictions on religious activities adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, Catholic League president William Donohue has written a letter to the Russian delegation at the United Nations calling attention to League concerns about limitations on religious liberty in Russia. "It is our belief," wrote Dr. Donohue, "and we [...]
By Bill Donohue Editor's Note: The following article by Catholic League president William A. Donohue, Ph.D., appeared in the July 3, 1993 issue of Human Events. In it, Dr. Donohue, a nationally recognized authority on the ACLU, offers some very enlightening background on Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose nomination hearings were compared to a canonization by [...]
American Atheists, based in Austin, Texas, organized "Pope Picket '93" in order to defend "freedom of choice for women ... rights of gay men and women ... freedom of expression ... separation of government and religion." Their slick brochure informs its readers that "The pope of Rome has no business trying to dictate politics, finance and [...]
