Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic who helped save thousands from the Nazis, died this morning at the age of 98. Between 1940 and 1943, Sendler and other members of an underground organization smuggled Jewish children—from infants through teens—out of the Warsaw Ghetto. Sendler worked to give these kids a chance at survival by passing them off [...]
Click here to read the Pew Forum's findings on the image Americans have of Pope Benedict XVI in the wake of his recent visit.
Michael Preisler, a member of the Catholic League, is a Polish Catholic who survived Auschwitz. Click here to read about his work educating others on the reality of life in Poland during the Holocaust.
“What if the greatest story ever told was a lie?” This is the tag line to “Bloodline,” a new film opening in New York this Friday. Bruce Burgess, the producer, has previously made documentaries exploring the Bermuda Triangle and searching for Bigfoot. So it comes as no surprise that he is floating claims that Jesus was [...]
Yesterday, the Rev. John Hagee appeared as a guest on Dennis Prager’s radio show. On the program, Hagee denied that he is anti-Catholic, claiming, “The charges made against me by specifically the Catholic League are simply false.” For his part, Prager mentioned his long-standing friendship with the Catholic League and his intention to bring Bill Donohue [...]
What His Holiness said at the White House on Wednesday was the truth, and nothing but the truth: “Any tendency to treat religion as a private matter must be resisted.” We hope all those who would like to privatize, if not censor, religion are listening. What the pope said will surely embolden millions of Catholics to [...]
Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, who represents North American Orthodox synagogues as executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, dismissed the controversysurrounding the Latin version of the Good Friday prayer for the Jews. “Their prayers are their business, our prayers are our business,” the rabbi told the press. We hope everyone takes note of his sensible and considerate [...]
Pope Benedict XVI has done everything he can to remain faithful to Catholic teaching on the subject of salvation and at the same time reassure Jews that the Latin prayer is not being used as cover to ignite a conversion war. While most Jews have accepted the pope’s recent statement on this subject, the ADL has [...]
WTOP, a news radio station in Washington, D.C., is currently playing a commercial that ridicules the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The spot, paid for by a Presbyterian Church in the nation’s capital, mimics a man confessing his sins to a priest. The priest repeats the man’s sins back to him, and with each sin (e.g., having lustful [...]
On March 13 & 14, The Cavalier Daily, a student-run newspaper at the University of Virginia, ran two cartoons, both of which were offensive to Christians. We blasted the newspaper for their bigotry and pointed out its hypocrisy. On March 15 the newspaper removed the cartoons from its website and issued a statement of regret. The editor has [...]
