Today's New York Times includes an op-ed piece titled "A Middle Ground for Stem Cells." The author, Yuval Levin, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and former executive director of the President's Council on Bioethics, had this to say: It is a simple and uncontroversial biological fact that a human life begins when [...]
Yesterday evening, the 90-minute documentary “Hand of God” aired on the PBS public affairs series “Frontline.” In the piece, filmmaker Joe Cultrera explores the situation surrounding his brother being abused by a priest 30 years ago. The Catholic League does not take issue with the documentary's theme: honest investigations into what led to and contributed to [...]
On December 20, Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson wrote, “John Paul also sought to build his church in nations of the developing world where traditional morality and bigotry, most especially on matters sexual, were in greater supply than in secular Europe and the increasingly egalitarian United States, and more in sync with the Catholic Church’s inimitable [...]
From the Associated Press (1-10-07): The Department of Veterans Affairs' increasing use of religion in treating ailing veterans does not violate the separation of church and state, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John Shabaz dismissed a lawsuit by the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation and defended the agency's practices in his decision Monday, [...]
From the Los Angeles Times (1-11-07): Three newly elected school board members in southern Orange County want to rename the two-week winter vacation the "Christmas" recess... Deborah Lauter, national civil rights director for the Anti-Defamation League, said she was dismayed by the trend, which she says values Christianity above other religions. "Public schools should seek to [...]
On January 5, CNN’s Glenn Beck invited supermodel Janice Dickinson to talk about her life and career. In the course of the discussion, she mentioned that her father was a pedophile who tried to molest her when she was young. She advised everyone who has been molested to “tell a neighbor, tell a friend, tell a [...]
The state director of Michigan Atheists, an affiliate of America Atheists, has admitted she mislead the public when she “claimed in a letter to Howell schools that the curriculum of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools has been found to be unconstitutional in four states. The council’s curriculum has never been found to [...]
The letter below was written by Bill Donohue is response to an article, "I'm not a racist, but...," that appeared in today's Newsday. January 5, 2007 Mr. James Klurfeld Newsday 235 Pinelawn Rd. Melville, NY 11747-4250 Dear Mr. Klurfeld: Randy Blazak’s article about hate speech is the most politically correct piece written on the subject I [...]
One can sympathize with CNN’s Lou Dobbs over his anger at some Catholic officials who want a totally open-ended immigration policy, but this doesn’t justify his remark of January 3rd taking the Catholic Church to task for talking about “a very secular matter.” The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and religious liberty, two rights that [...]
MSNBC is featuring a piece from the January 8 Newsweek about a campaign run by atheists trying to get young people to deny the existence of God. BlasphemyChallenge.com is the site of this project. “The particular form of the challenge was chosen because,” the article says, “by one interpretation, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, a part [...]
