For John Cornwell, Pius XII is "Hitler’s Pope." For Martin Peretz, the pope is a Holocaust "enabler." Peretz is the editor of the left-wing journal, The New Republic, and this was the charge he made in his article "Tel Aviv Postcard" on April 10. Knowing that the journal has been around for quite a long time, we [...]
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of homosexuals dressed as nuns, have events scheduled for Good Friday and Easter Sunday in San Francisco. On Good Friday, they will sponsor "Hot Cross Buns," a fetish fashion show that provides "a chance to get spanked" (free Sticky Buns are awarded to those who get spanked). Dr. Carol [...]
One of the pet peeves of the Catholic League is the extent to which our critics do a flip-flop when it comes to their allies. To be specific, it is not easy to listen to those who rail against us—calling us "censors"—when we protest a movie or TV show, and then watch them defend their ideological [...]
The substitution of propaganda for objective reporting is bad enough, but when it is transmitted as education to unsuspecting students, it is unconscionable. This explains our reaction to some recent broadcasts by Channel One Network that made their way into classrooms around the country, including Catholic ones. Channel One is used by many teachers as an [...]
On March 21, the Catholic League formally wrote to all 100 U.S. senators asking them to support Senate Resolution #87: introduced by Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, the resolution supports the current status of the Holy See at the U.N. and denounces the anti-Catholic campaign to unseat it. "As you know," William Donohue said, "the [...]
As readers of Catalyst know, anytime we spot one of the anti-Catholic ads of the Eternal Gospel Church in a newspaper, we immediately ask the publisher to refrain from accepting such ads in the future. Fortunately, most newspaper publishers listen to reason and do not intentionally seek to promote bigotry. Our latest victory is the Columbian, southern Washington’s largest [...]
New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani threatened to evict the Brooklyn Museum of Art after it hosted the "Sensation" exhibit last fall that featured a dung-stained Virgin Mary portrait. The museum struck back suing the City for violating First Amendment rights. On March 27, both sides agreed to settle their dispute by dropping their respective suits. Though [...]
After a complaint by the Catholic League, the internet search engine, Excite, has removed an insulting anti-Catholic element from its search facilities. We noticed in February that when someone typed in the name Mother Theresa (the correct spelling of her name in Teresa), up popped an obscenity. The same obscenity appeared when the words Mother Superior [...]
We sent a letter at the end of March to the Broadcast Standards & Practices department of ABC registering our misgivings over three recent episodes of "Politically Incorrect." The March 20 show featured Bill Maher joking that at the Annunciation, the Archangel Gabriel didn’t tell Mary that she was pregnant with Jesus, he showed her his [...]
It was billed as a forum on "Literature, Homosexuality, and Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century," featuring Richard Dellamora from Trent University in Canada and Ellis Hanson from Cornell. That gave us pause. It gave us more pause when we learned that it was being held on the campus of Vassar College and was being sponsored by [...]
