It never fails. Every Christmas we fight the same battles. Some are fought in the courts, while others are fought in our communities. The bigots want to eradicate Christmas. Here's a quick look at what's happening already. A columnist for the Kansas City Star is angry that Christmas is starting too early for him. Muslim students in a [...]
It took just over five weeks to get what we wanted from the Miller Brewing Company—an unqualified apology addressing all four of our concerns. Satisfied, we called the boycott off and put an end to the anti-Miller PR campaign as well. On September 25, the Catholic League objected to a promotional piece for the September 30 [...]
It is not unusual for the Catholic League to be fighting a war over a big issue, even as it tackles several minor ones. What is unusual is to be waging war on two fronts simultaneously. Such is the case with our battle against the Miller Brewing Company and our campaign against the upcoming film, "The [...]
The Catholic League recently filed a friend-of-the-court brief regarding a case that involves mistreatment of the dead. After being contacted by the Painesville, Ohio law firm of Dworken & Bernstein, we decided to join with them in an unusual case. The firm is representing a family whose son died in an accident. When the body of [...]
The Catholic League is calling for a boycott of "The Golden Compass"; the movie opens December 7. It is based on the first book of a trilogy titled, His Dark Materials. The author of this children's fantasy is Philip Pullman, a noted English atheist. It is his objective to bash Catholicism and promote atheism. To kids. "The [...]
On September 4, Bill Donohue spoke at a press conference in New York City registering his misgivings over a new publicly funded "Arabic" school that opened in Brooklyn. The rally was held on the steps of City Hall and was attended by prominent Catholic and Jewish leaders. The reason for using quotation marks to describe the [...]
Beginning in the spring, and ending over the summer, the Catholic League was able to persuade Random House to make substantive revisions to its Fodor's Travel Guides. Deleted were several objectionable references to Catholicism, remarks that should never have appeared in reference books. As far back as 2000, we received complaints about the Fodor series. At [...]
As expected, Amnesty Inter-national, the group that monitors human rights around the world, approved an abortion-rights policy at its biennial conference in Mexico City; the policy was first adopted this past spring. Responding to criticism from the Vatican, as well as from American bishops, Amnesty issued a news release on June 14 saying that it does [...]
The Catholic League's patience with "The View" ran out on May 31. That was the day the ABC show attacked Catholicism for the 15th time since September; it was the second hit to occur within a two-week period. Our response was to finger the show's co-owner, Barbara Walters, as the guilty party in a New York Times op-ed [...]
We have an update on the anti-Catholic resolution that was passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors last year: we filed a complaint of judicial misconduct against Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, and it has been accepted as worthy of investigation. Readers of Catalyst will recall that the Catholic League objected when the resolution in question [...]
