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by Kenneth D. Whitehead (Catalyst 4/04) Many of the attacks on Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" should have been expected. They have mostly come from secular liberals who have already manifested their hostility to Christianity in the public life of the United States. As some wag noted almost as soon as the movie was [...]
(1/2004) Part 1: General Catholic Church Coverage January 2002-December 2003 Columnists Dick Ryan: “The laity must begin to convince those Catholics who seem asleep that their church is in a terminal crisis that involves everybody. It can no longer be enough to ‘hit the rail’ on Sunday and piously say the rosary, while the abuse of authority [...]
A lawyer with three suits against the Albany Diocese has asked the presiding judge to recuse himself because he is a practicing Catholic. Attorney John Aretakis made the request of State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi on Monday, but the judge refused. When Aretakis commented that Teresi often goes to weekday Mass and is a “deeply [...]
Philip Pullman’s new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, became available in the U.S. on May 4; it is published by Canongate U.S. The publisher was kind enough to send us an advance copy of the new book, no doubt hoping that we would give it some free publicity by hammering it. They may [...]
William A. Donohue In February we objected to George W. Bush’s visit to Bob Jones University. Six months later we objected to Al Gore’s refusal to stop a fund-raising event at the Playboy Mansion. Subsequently, Bush made a public statement of regret regarding his handling of the Bob Jones matter and Gore saw to it that [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the results of a new Pew Research Center survey on religion: Once again, Pew Research Center has done a fine job surveying the public on religious beliefs and practices. And once again, some in the media are distorting its findings. Rachel Dicker of usnews.com, and Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner, would [...]
by K. D. Whitehead American Catholics can only reflect with deep shame on the role their government played in the preparation for and participation in the recent UN International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. The Cairo conference itself surely represented some kind of moral low point in the modem world's relentless slide into official immorality [...]
Philip Pullman's new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, is available in the U.S. on May 4; it is published by Canongate U.S. Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on it today: The publisher was kind enough to send me an advance copy of Pullman's new book, no doubt hoping I would give [...]
