It is being reported that President George W. Bush will attend church while in Beijing for the Olympic Games. He is then expected to make a statement, urging the Chinese government to allow religious freedom. It is a courageous thing to do and we hope that he also addresses the persecutions suffered by Catholics and other religious minorities.
The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy has issued a press release about Professor Paul Myers and his act of desecration of the Eucharist. Please click on this link to read their statement. Myers responded in his usual cavalier manner.
In light of the desecration of the Eucharist by University of Minnesota Morris professor, Paul Myers, Bill has sent the following letter to the president of the University of Minnesota. Please click here to read the letter. To read the press release referenced in the letter, please click here.
The Catholic League continues to follow the situation with the University of Central Florida student who held the Eucharist hostage for a week. Webster Cook is a student senator and he has been impeached by his fellow senators for allegedly misrepresenting himself as being on official student government business at the Mass where he took the Host. As a result [...]
New Line Cinema had planned to make all three of Philip Pullman's books that compriseHis Dark Materials into major motion pictures. Due to the successful boycott led by the Catholic League, the first film, "The Golden Compass," was less than a commercial success. It now appears that the second book, The Subtle Knife, will not make it to the [...]
Professor Paul Myers responded to the controversy surrounding the UCF student, who held a consecrated Host hostage for a week, with venomous attacks on the Eucharist, threatening to desecrate Hosts if others could obtain them for him. The league sprung into action, contacting the president of the University of Minnesota, which allowed the link to his blog to be accessible [...]
The California Supreme Court ruled that the voter initiative to affirm that marriage is between a man and a woman can be placed on the November ballot. This is a victory for the people of California who can decide whether to allow same-sex marriage after the California Supreme Court recently legalized it by a 4 to 3 [...]
Mary Honeyball, a member of the Labour Party in England, has attacked the Catholic Church and Catholic political leaders due to their opposition to a bill promoting embryonic stem cell research. Ms. Honeyball later went on to attack the Catholic League. In a letter to an English newspaper, Honeyball called the league "dangerous." She utilized information [...]
The resolution of the matter concerning the UCF student who absconded with the Eucharist and held It for a week remains pending. We will not know the outcome until the student judicial review process is completed. Below is the statement issued by the president of the University: UCF takes this situation seriously and we are glad [...]
That's what Roy Peter Clark of the Poynter Institute called Bill Donohue yesterday. Bill has been called lots of things, but this is a new one to us.
