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The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights: Neither Religious nor Civil

Posted by Editor's Choice 8 May 2012

The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights apparently has a single mission: suppression of all mainstream criticism of the Roman Catholic Church. In addition to embarrassment, the organization uses intimidation, bullying and distortion to suppress critics of the Catholic church, the Vatican, and the church’s many controversial policies. Given this November’s US presidential election and the Catholic Church’s immense stake in the outcome,[...]

The Catholic League and Suppression of the Press Today

Posted by Authors, Freedom of the presss, Highlights, Stephen D. Mumford 26 Apr 2012

This is the third of a series of chapters from N4CM Chairman Dr Stephen D. Mumford’s book, “The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a US Population Policy”, given this November’s US presidential election and the Catholic Church’s immense stake in the outcome. In the following chapter Dr Mumford examines the principles governing the Catholic League’s behaviour, the methods leading to its success [...]

Vatican Rejection of Freedom of the Press

Posted by Authors, Freedom of the presss, Highlights, Stephen D. Mumford 24 Apr 2012

This is the second of a series of chapters from N4CM Chairman Dr Stephen D. Mumford’s book, “The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a US Population Policy”, given this November’s US presidential election and the Catholic Church’s immense stake in the outcome. In the following chapter Dr Mumford examines 150 years of uninterrupted papal hostility toward American journalism [...]

Irish bishop criticises ‘Our Lady in bikini’ exhibit

Posted by Freedom of the presss, News, Top Stories 27 Jun 2011

Source: The Guardian. University College, Cork, is the jewel in the crown on the majestic head of Cork city. The limestone Victorian quad, the ornate Honan chapel and the state-of-the-art Tyndall National Institute (recently visited by Queen Elizabeth) are all sources of pride for an already proud people. Today the university’s department of Hispanic studies hosts the [...]

Free Speech Under Siege

Posted by Opinion 20 Jun 2011

Source: skidelskyr.com. Recently, at a literary festival in Britain, I found myself on a panel discussing free speech. For liberals, free speech is a key index of freedom. Democracies stand for free speech; dictatorships suppress it. When we in the West look outward, this remains our view. We condemn governments that silence, imprison, and even kill writers and journalists.

Attack on ‘blasphemous’ art work fires debate on role of religion in France

Posted by Christian Right Watch, Freedom of the presss 30 Apr 2011

Source: Guardian. When New York artist Andres Serrano plunged a plastic crucifix into a glass of his own urine and photographed it in 1987 under the title Piss Christ, he said he was making a statement on the misuse of religion. Controversy has followed the work ever since, but reached an unprecedented peak on Palm Sunday when it was attacked with hammers and destroyed after an “anti-blasphemy” campaign by French Catholic fundamentalists in the southern city of Avignon.

First They Came For …

Posted by Christian Right Watch, Opinion 31 Mar 2011

Source: The Daily Narrative. First they came for the scientists, the evolutionary biologists, who dared to suggest that the planet was more than 6000 years old and that Adam and Eve did not peacefully coexist with dinosaurs. Then they came for the climatologists who dared to suggest that corporations and complicit governments were poisoning the planet.

Italian ‘Big Brother’ removes contestants for blasphemy

Posted by News 16 Jan 2011

Source: Telegraph, 15 January 2011. The Italian version of ‘Big Brother’, broadcast on a channel owned by Silvio Berlusconi, has removed three contestants after the Catholic Church complained about blasphemy. It has been accused of overstepping the bounds of decency by airing footage of contenders fumbling beneath duvets and wandering around semi-naked.

Website censors criticism of Pope

Posted by Freedom of the presss, Top Stories 25 Dec 2010

Source: The Age, 24 December 2010. AN ARTICLE claiming the Pope and Australian bishops treat clergy with contempt and even violate human rights has been censored on a Catholic website on the intervention of a ”higher-up”, believed to be Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart. Cath News, a popular online and email news service, ran a report [...]

Ant-covered Jesus video removed from Smithsonian after Catholic League complains

Posted by Freedom of the presss, News, Top Stories, Wall of Separation 1 Dec 2010

Source: The Washington Post, 1 December 2010. Officials at the National Portrait Gallery on Tuesday removed a work of video art depicting Christ with ants crawling over him after complaints from a Catholic organization and members of Congress. The four-minute video, created by the late artist David Wojnarowicz, had been on exhibit since Oct. 30 as [...]

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