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It didn't take long before critics of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts made an issue of his religion. All over the airwaves pundits were wondering whether his Catholicism might interfere with his duties as a judge. For example, the day after President Bush nominated Roberts, an influential left-wing publication, The American Prospect, ran a particularly unseemly piece [...]
The June edition of Smithsonian, the magazine published by the Smithsonian Institution, featured a lengthy article by James Carroll, notorious for his venomous attacks on the Church. Bill Donohue wasted no time in addressing the matter of an anti-Catholic article running in a government publication. Below is the text of the letter he sent to the [...]
A&E television network broadcast a documentary in May replete with lies about the Catholic Church. The documentary was based on the book Illuminating Angels and Demons: The Unauthorized Guide to the Facts Behind the Fiction by Simon Cox. The book discusses the "facts" on which Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons is based. Bill Donohue responded by pointing out some [...]
The U.S. Senate passed three pieces of legislation regarding stem cell research on July 18. Two of the bills were non-controversial: one bans growing human embryos in a human or animal with the intent of harvesting stem cells, and the other promotes adult stem cell research. The controversial bill would have expanded federal funding for embryonic [...]
Dirt Rag is a magazine devoted to mountain biking. Its online version is www.dirtragmag.com. The content, generally geared toward young males, focuses on athletics and is unobjectionable. However, we were alerted to a couple of products sold by the magazine that give us pause. T-shirts bearing the Sacred Heart and the words "Dirt Rag" are available. So [...]
Pope Benedict XVI's speech on September 12 at the University of Regensburg in Germany elicited reactions from many critics, with some of them calling for the pope's head. Here is the worst of the worst: · September 14, Ali Bardakoglu, head of Turkey's Directorate General for Religious Affairs told NTV (Turkey): "The remarks reflect the [...]
Click here to read that National Review Online article "Moscow’s Assault on the Vatican" by Ion Mihai Pacepa. Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc, discusses how Soviet agents worked to discredit the Church by smearing Pope Pius XII as a Nazi sympathizer. Pacepa reports that the agents were even [...]
By Sister Margherita Marchione (June 1, 2007) As the Vatican moves toward announcing the beatification of Pope Pius XII, some prominent American Jewish leaders continue to insist that the Church should desist from that long-overdue action. They claim that Pius was guilty of not doing enough to prevent Hitler's genocide of Jews during the Holocaust. Even [...]
