Most people think that the days are long gone when Christians were told they need not apply for a particular job. Yet in the February 17 edition of the Village Voice, there was a public notice ad for a pair of vocalists that ended with the following sentence: "Must be dedicated, creative, not afraid to offend everyone [...]
Just as we were going to press, we learned that ABC apparently has decided to cancel "Nothing Sacred." Several phone calls to the network, and everyone else connected to the show, failed to secure a definitive answer. It seems that ABC is quietly walking away from "Nothing." On March 19, the Los Angeles Times said that "Nothing" had [...]
William A. Donohue On a recent television show that I was on, one of the other guests remarked that Catholicism risked becoming obsolete because its message wasn’t relevant enough to today’s Catholics. I thought this was a strange comment, especially coming from a Catholic university professor. The good news is that she’s wrong. Those [...]
by William A. Donohue At the conclusion of John M. Swomley’s article in the January/February edition of The Humanist, the credits read that he is "emeritus professor of social ethics at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri, and president of Americans for Religious Liberty." It would be more accurate to say that Swomley is [...]
Microsoft Bookshelf 98, a software reference library, continues a pattern of prejudice against Roman Catholics that was evident in earlier versions of this software. In a search for "Catholic," there is a subsection of quotations that lists 24 comments by public figures, past and present, on Catholicism. Fully sixteen of them are very negative remarks, some [...]
On March 16, the Vatican issued a long awaited document, "We Remember, a Reflection on the Shoah." It defended the role of Pope Pius XII during World War II while also acknowledging that some Roman Catholics were guilty of misdeeds. It implored Christians to abide by a "moral imperative" that will never allow for another Holocaust. [...]
On March 4, the House Judiciary Committee approved a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would allow prayer in the schools and other forms of religious expression on public property. William Donohue, who testified in favor of the amendment before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the House Judiciary Committee in July, 1996, appeared on FOX [...]
An ad by Absolut, the vodka product of Sweden, met objections from the Catholic League because it exploited the Catholic sacrament of Holy Eucharist. The ad, which appeared on p. 321 of the March issue of Vogue, is a story-book tale about a priest on an island. Throughout the ad, reference is made to many Catholic symbols [...]
Last spring, the Catholic League wrote to David Lawrence, publisher of the Miami Herald, asking him not to accept any more anti-Catholic ads from the Eternal Gospel SDA Church. In response, Lawrence pledged not to allow the identical ad again. To the league’s dismay, his paper ran the very same bigoted ad on February 28. The ad [...]
In March, Miramax asked William Donohue if he was interested in previewing the movie, "Wide Awake." He agreed. Miramax is the Disney-owned distributor of the Catholic-bashing film, "Priest." "Wide Awake" is a PG movie about a young boy who attends an elite Catholic boarding school. After his beloved grandfather dies, the boy questions how God could [...]
