From The President’s Desk

FALSE ECUMENISM

By |2017-03-20T17:53:42-04:00November 16th, 2009|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

The Catholic Church is committed to strong interreligious relations, as well it should be. Being respectful of other religions is a good thing, and it very often leads to crucial coalitions on timely political, economic, social and cultural matters. There is a difference, however, between respecting other religions and fawning over them. Surely we want children [...]

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PROBLEM PERSONALITIES

By |2017-03-20T17:53:45-04:00October 16th, 2009|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

Taylor Swift is a teenager who received an MTV Video Music Award in September. But rapper Kanye West thought singer Beyoncé should have won. This wouldn’t have been newsworthy except for what he did: he walked on stage, grabbed the microphone from Swift and told the world that his favorite singer should have won. When the [...]

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LYING AND DOUBLE STANDARDS

By |2013-03-06T20:58:49-05:00September 16th, 2009|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

 have often told my daughters that one of the great things about my job is that I don’t have to lie. I believe in what the Catholic Church teaches, and believe that its voice should be given a fair hearing in society. Because it often is not—indeed there is a cacophony of cat-calls trying to shut [...]

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SECULAR SABOTAGE

By |2017-03-20T17:53:49-04:00July 16th, 2009|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

The first book that I wrote, The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union, was published in 1985. The groundwork for that book had already been done: my NYU dissertation was on “Organizational Change Within the ACLU.” To write the book, I not only revised my dissertation, I added much new material and concentrated more on the [...]

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OBAMA AND NOTRE DAME

By |2013-04-10T18:14:01-04:00June 16th, 2009|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

When I first learned that President Barack Obama was invited to give the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree at the University of Notre Dame, I walked into McGeever’s pub and told the boys that they would not believe which Catholic university was going to honor the president. “Don’t tell me Notre Dame,” Billy [...]

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CATHOLIC LEFT HAS LOST ITS MOORINGS

By |2017-03-20T17:53:57-04:00May 16th, 2009|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

Throughout American history, there has been an uneasy relationship between those on the left side of the political spectrum who are religious,  and those who are secular. It has been obvious that the two groups share the same politics, but just as obvious has been their point of departure—the origin of their values is quite different. [...]

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BUSY ON ALL FRONTS

By |2017-03-20T17:53:58-04:00April 16th, 2009|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue Last December I wrote a president’s desk piece titled, “Culture War Ready to Explode.” I predicted that the election of Barack Obama would occasion a fierce battle between traditionalists and modernists, and that was because many of those in the latter category will “see in his victory a golden opportunity to wage war [...]

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MORAL BASIS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

By |2017-03-20T17:54:00-04:00March 16th, 2009|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

On December 18, Pope Benedict XVI told 11 new ambassadors to the Vatican that economic development and financial policies must be based on firm ethical grounds. This was not a throw-away statement: the pope has long understood that at the root of contemporary political, economic and social problems is a cultural collapse. Western civilization, to be [...]

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SOME REALLY LOVE ABORTION

By |2017-03-20T17:54:10-04:00January 17th, 2009|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue The pro-life movement knows that 2009 will test its reserve more than ever before. It is an appropriate time, then, to consider what we’re up against. Most of those in favor of “choice” don’t have the courage to complete the sentence. The “choice” they support does not entail choosing between chocolate or strawberry, [...]

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CULTURE WAR READY TO EXPLODE

By |2020-11-09T21:54:18-05:00December 24th, 2008|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue We have been in the throes of a culture war for the past half-century, but never has it been more imperative to buckle your seat belts until now. Quite frankly, the culture war is about to explode. The culture war pits traditionalists against modernists. To be more specific, it pits those who ascribe [...]

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