Catholic League president William Donohue issued the following call to action to California public school teachers: “Now that U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton has said he would sign a restraining order banning the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in some California school districts, the time has come for patriotic teachers in those schools to practice [...]
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, wrote to the KABC (Los Angeles) program director today about a bigoted comment made on September 10 by radio talk-show host Kim Serafin The following is the text of Donohue’s letter to Burch: On Saturday, September 10, at the conclusion of her show, Kim Serafin discussed the victims of [...]
Catholic League president William Donohue commented today on questions that were asked yesterday about John Roberts’ religion: “Senator Arlen Specter and Senator Dianne Feinstein both asked John Roberts yesterday whether he agreed with the comment made by President John F. Kennedy in 1960 regarding matters of church and state. Neither one of them even hinted at [...]
It didn't take long before critics of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts made an issue of his religion. All over the airwaves pundits were wondering whether his Catholicism might interfere with his duties as a judge. For example, the day after President Bush nominated Roberts, an influential left-wing publication, The American Prospect, ran a particularly unseemly piece [...]
The petition drive against the Showtime production of Penn and Teller's vicious assault on Mother Teresa was at least partly successful. In an unprecedented move, Viacom/Showtime officials decided never to run this particular episode again. On July 18, the producer of the offensive show, called Bill Donohue. When Donohue accepted the call, the producer thanked him [...]
William A. Donohue Attempts by some Democrats to derail John Roberts' nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court by dwelling on his religion will backfire: the nation has had enough with attempts to impose a veiled litmus test on Catholic nominees to the federal bench. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Steven Breyer were nominated by President Clinton [...]
By William Doino, Jr. Every day, the secular media bombards us with the idea that the Catholic Church is a backward, repressive institution, unfair to its own members and prejudiced against those outside its communion. Is it any wonder that so many Jews, and other non-Catholics—not to mention "anti-Catholic Catholics" ignorant of their own faith—have a [...]
Many critics of John Roberts have posited that it is legitimate for senators to question him on the relationship between his religion and his position on various constitutional issues. Others have said that his wife's religious beliefs or associations should also be weighed. Neither of these areas of inquiry were ever pursued by senators when Ruth [...]
In late July, Senator Bill Frist formally broke with the pro-life community's opposition to embryonic stem cell research. Bill Donohue wasn't pleased and let the media know his thoughts: "Here is what Senator John Kerry said when running for president: 'I believe life does begin at conception.' Here is what Senator Bill Frist is now saying: [...]
Not a single frame has been shot in the film version of "The Da Vinci Code" and already it is the source of controversy. England's famous Westminster Abbey has refused to allow Columbia pictures the right to use its cathedral, saying it would be "inappropriate" to allow filming. The movie, which is based on the best-selling [...]
