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Special Report by Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights February 2004 PREFACE The purpose of this special report is to put the recent scandal in the Catholic Church in perspective. It does not seek to exculpate anyone who had anything to do with priestly sexual misconduct, but it does seek to challenge those who [...]
In October, in the debate over school vouchers in Milwaukee, the Wisconsin state legislature considered an amendment to a school-choice bill that would require background checks of voucher-school employees. State Senator Gwendolynne Moore, who pushed for the measure, said she wanted to vest this authority in the Milwaukee Department of Public Instruction. The Milwaukee Archdiocese already [...]
Guidelines in dealing with priestly sexual abuse are important but they are no substitute for common sense and common decency. Consider, for example, what has happened in two archdioceses, that of Boston and that of Milwaukee. In 1977, Rev. Paul Shanley, the Boston pedophile and homosexual, said that when an adult and child have sex, "the [...]
January Hightstown, NJ—Town Councilman Eugene Sarafin, known for his atheism and inflammatory remarks about religion, twice used obscene terms to describe his Catholic critics. He labels them "Catholic s---." After a complaint by the Catholic League, Sarafin was censored by the town council on March 3 by a vote of 5-1. January New Hampshire—Lawmakers began debating [...]
The NBC show, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," targeted Catholic priests in its season finale on May 17. The episode, "Silence," featured a senior priest involved in pedophilia and a subsequent diocesan coverup. Two days before it aired, we issued a news release that raised serious questions about the decision to run the show. We [...]
Catholic League News Release March 22, 2002 Reports are surfacing that many Catholic priests are under siege in the wake of the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Catholic League president William Donohue commented on this phenomenon today: “Virtually every priest I know is very angry over the sex abuse scandal in the Church. They [...]
A cartoon by Don Wright that appeared in the January 16 edition of the Palm Beach Post led to a flurry of complaints by local Catholics. Many called us or faxed us the cartoon. The cartoon, available on the newspaper's online site, shows a woman sitting in a chair pondering what is a cruel caricature of [...]
Don Kazimir, director of the Respect Life Office of the Diocese of Palm Beach, had a letter printed in the Palm Beach Post objecting to Planned Parenthood. Writing to him at the diocese was a young woman who proved to be a bigot. Father Thomas J. Euteneuer of Holy Cross Catholic Church in Indiantown, Florida, jumped to Don’s [...]
