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Bill in the news: CatholicPhilly.com: In a statement that didn’t name the Spadaro-Figueroa piece but, coming a day later, was apparently a response, Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, an anti-defamation group, traced the start of this interfaith convergence to the 1980s and the founding of the Moral Majority by [...]
Movies April 3 New York, NY – Neil Jordan’s "The Butcher Boy" opened in select theaters, complete with Sinead O’Connor playing a foul-mouthed Virgin Mary uttering the F-word. In defending the scene, O’Connor opined that "if Mary was around right now she might say something like fuck!" For his part, Jordan believed that his portrayal of the [...]
October 2 Roseburg, OR – Here is what Chris Harper-Mercer said to his victims just before he killed them at Umpqua Community College: "Are you Christian?" After they stood up he said, "Good, because you're Christian, you are going to see God in just about one second." He then shot them. Another eyewitness account said that [...]
Movies January "The Ogre," a film about a naïve Catholic man in the Paris suburbs who is seduced into the pagan lifestyle of Nazi Germany, contained "minor attacks on the Catholic clergy," according to a review in Human Events. March The film "Relax…It’s Just Sex" featured the following line: "You know how lesbians are. They’re like [...]
On July 28, the HBO show "Sex and the City" aired an episode that was dotted with cheap shots at Catholicism. The episode, "Unoriginal Sin," featured Sarah Jessica Parker playing Carrie Bradshaw; Carrie is also the show's narrator. Viewers also meet Miranda, an unmarried non-Catholic mother of a newborn. Her boyfriend wants to baptize the child [...]
A writer from Madison, Wisconsin, Jacquelyn Mitchard, recently wrote a pro-abortion article wherein she just happened to take some cheap shots at the Catholic Church. The columnist repeated the same old canard about the Church not providing enough services to unwed mothers. William Donohue’s letter in reply was published on April 18. Dear Editor: Jacquelyn Mitchard [...]
Melissa Dribben, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote an article in February about Secretary of State Madeline Albright's newly discovered Jewish ancestry. The piece was okay save for one cheap shot. Speaking rhetorically, Dribben made the point how Jewish kids are often subjected to anti-Semitism, as in the (seemingly) proverbial comment offered by "parochial schoolkids" [...]
Karen De Witt, a writer for the New York Times, recently took a cheap shot against the Catholic Church. In the PBS show, "To the Contrary," the panelists were discussing sexual abuse when De Witt unloaded with the folllowing: "It's not just an issue with girls alone. Boys are exploited as well, and people should not forget [...]
