Managers of a student newspaper at the University of Virginia, the Cavalier Daily, recently forced a staff cartoonist, Grant Woolard, to resign. This action stemmed from a controversy surrounding a drawing of Mr. Woolard’s that, according to the Washington Post, depicted “nine darkened figures with bald, enlarged heads, dressed only in loincloths, fighting each other over a tree [...]
On its website today, New York magazine gave Kathy Griffin “kudos” for unleashing a “joyfully blasphemous rant” upon receiving her Emmy award. Griffin’s words, “Suck it, Jesus, this is my God now” were so offensive and vulgar that most other news outlets won’t reprint them. Yet the Gotham publication goes so far as to gush, “Thank God we can [...]
The evidence is unmistakable: 81 percent of the victims of priestly sexual abuse were male, the majority of whom were postpubescent. Since 100 percent of the victimizers were male, we’re talking about homosexuality, not pedophilia. Yet the cultural elite refuse to deal with reality, and have indeed waged an unprecedented cover-up. Two items in today’s New [...]
SACRED DOUBT by Rabbi Irwin Kula Rabbi Irwin Kula, a good friend of the Catholic League, is the President of CLAL—The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He is the author of Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life (Hyperion, 2006). Mother Teresa’s passionate expression of doubt in her recently released “dark letters” is a reflection of the [...]
In September, Doubleday will release a book by Father Brian Kolodiejchuk calledMother Teresa: Come Be My Light. Father Kolodiejchuk, the postulator for Mother Teresa’s sainthood cause, has collected the amazing woman’s writings into a volume that shows the intensity of her holiness. Particularly revealing are the sections that highlight the severe “dark night of the soul” that haunted [...]
As reported by Jan Moller in today’s Times-Picayune, Louisiana Protestants don’t support a television commercial made by the Louisiana Democratic Party. The commercial accuses Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bobby Jindal of bigotry against non-Catholic Christians. The advertisement claims that in an article he wrote in 1996, Jindal “insulted thousands of Louisiana Protestants. He has referred to Protestant religions as scandalous, depraved, selfish [...]
We pass no judgment on the late Leona Helmsley, but we are amused to find that the same woman who fired two men because they were gay (she settled out of court with the first man and lost in court to the second one), and made numerous anti-gay comments, is viewed as a heroine by two [...]
Last night, the Showtime network debuted its new series, “Californication,” starring David Duchovny. The main character, Hank is a writer who has a published a book called God Hates Us All. Unhappy about the film adaptation of his work, struggled with his young daughter, and missing his ex-girlfriend, Hank is troubled by a bad case of [...]
In today’s New York Times, the obituary on Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a Jewish convert, says that “Like John Paul, Cardinal Lustiger was a conservative. He opposed abortion and the ordination of women and married men to the priesthood, and he sought to preserve the priestly vow of celibacy.” Holy smokes! Sounds like Cardinal Lustiger was Catholic.
During today's airing of the ABC television show "The View," the panelists discussed gay marriage. Joy Behar was all for it, saying, "Gay people would like to say that they are married, instead of just a civil union." She then asked, "Why don't certain people, we know who they are, not want gay people to marry?" [...]
