On April 8, the pages of the Chicago Tribune, author Jason Berry wrote another one of his critical pieces on the Catholic Church (the Trib likes Berry almost as much as theBoston Globe likes James Carroll). Berry is the author of a book about priests and the sexual abuse of children. While no one denies there is a problem, the [...]
During the Oscar’s ceremony, actor Michael Myers presented the winners for best sound and sound editing. The comedian made light of their accomplishments and this, in turn, merited a statement of written apology from the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. We find this strange. Why didn’t Myers extend the apology? After [...]
The rock group, the Go-Go’s, will release a new CD May 15, entitled, "God Bless the Go-Go’s." The five female singers, who were popular in the 1980s, have posted a website (www.gogos.com) that is replete with Catholic imagery. On the home page, all five women are dressed as the Virgin Mary. They are dressed the same [...]
Everywhere they go, we go. Like a fly that just won’t go away, the Catholic League shadows the Eternal World Gospel in its tracks. When they succeed in placing one of their anti-Catholic ads in a newspaper, we write to the publisher pointing out our objections, asking that no more of these ads be accepted. In [...]
This is a sampling of the mail we received about our New York Times ad: "I have been sitting here for several hours thinking whether or not I should take the time to give you my opinion on your ad which appeared in the Times....You may offer any proof you want from any source you want [...]
Every year American Atheists hold their annual convention on Easter weekend. They do so because they think they’ll garner big media attention at a time when reporters are dying for a story. And every year they go home disappointed. But it least it fills their time. After all, if you believed in nothing and had nothing [...]
Catholics who are housed in a state facility for treatment of some kind of malady have rights, too. Ditto for inmates. Yet it often occurs that a two-track discriminatory policy is at work. We treat their issues just like everyone else, which means we first decide whether this is a matter for the Catholic League. If [...]
There are some things that people do that are so wicked that it is hard to believe that they are not deliberately fanning the fires of hell. Take, for example, an article written by Tristan Taormino, a lesbian ex-Catholic who hates Jesus. In a piece that appeared in the April 17 edition of the Village Voice (a sexplicit [...]
A New York University study comparing Catholic schools to New York City’s public schools makes it untenable to argue that there is even something to debate anymore. Catholic schools have larger classes, lower-paid teachers and much smaller budgets. But they educate their students in a way public schools do not. Where Catholic schools excel is where [...]
Ralph McInerny, author and founding editor of Crisis magazine and Catholic Dossier, has written a book on Pope Pius XII that already has his critics spinning. The Defamation of Pius XII is "not a defense of Pius in the normal sense…but an offense against the monstrous lies that have been perpetrated against this great man." The book is published by St. Augustine’s Press and retails [...]
