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Media Cover Up of Sex Abuse Widen

by Catholic League April 13, 2010

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a news story just posted by the Associated Press (AP) titled, “Vatican to Bishops: Follow Law, Report Sex Abuse”:
The Vatican decided to add a sentence to its guidelines on sex abuse, making…

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Resistance Is Futile?

by L. Brent Bozell April 12, 2010

Variety is a Hollywood trade publication, but it can be hard to figure out where the entertainment industry ends and the industry’s journalistic apple-polishers begin. Exhibit A is a commentary by Brian Lowry trying to compare the news media’s current…

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Abuse Scandal not Widening

by Catholic League April 10, 2010

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest developments in the sexual abuse scandal.
Every news story and commentary stating that the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is widening is factually wrong. The evidence shows just the…

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Evangelizing in the Ivory Coast

by ACN-USA News April 9, 2010

A leading Catholic charity is lending support to a bishop’s unusual initiative to attract young Africans to the Church with help from a little-known musical instrument and some oxen.
When Bishop Antoine Koné in the Ivory Coast was given a…

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The Face of Hate

by J. Matt Barber April 8, 2010

“Progressives” are like pig farmers. In an effort to bury opposing viewpoints they sling pejorative slop, labeling as “bigot,” “hater,” “wingnut” or “racist” those with whom they disagree. It’s the height of intellectual sloth.
The ad hominem approach – chief…

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The Media’s Vatican Coup

by L. Brent Bozell April 8, 2010

Our secular liberal media elites are never more poisonously insincere than when they recommend that conservatives should move closer to liberals, for their own good. Witnessing the relentless media attacks on the Catholic Church, no member of the flock should…

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Needed: Catholicism for Dummies

by Catholic League April 8, 2010

Maureen Dowd has an article in today’s New York Times titled, “The Church’s Judas Moment.” Catholic League president Bill Donohue couldn’t resist a rejoinder:
It is next to impossible for Maureen Dowd to write a piece about the Catholic Church…

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Easter Hopes in Iraq

by ACN-USA News April 7, 2010

A leading archbishop has spoken of renewed hopes for the survival of Christianity in one of Iraq’s most troubled regions after Easter celebrations passed off peacefully and with increased numbers attending the services.
Archbishop Amil Nona said altogether up to…

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Thomas More Law Center Asks Court to Stop Enforcement of the Individual Mandate of Health Care

by Thomas More Law Center April 7, 2010

– In an effort to expedite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision of the newly enacted health care reform act, today, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm…

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Associated Press Gets a Tip

by Catholic League April 7, 2010

AP is reporting that in the course of a TV interview on Sunday, the archbishop of Santiago, Chile said he was investigating “a few” cases of priestly sexual abuse. We decided to give AP a tip by bringing similar stories…

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