The Cavalier Daily, the student newspaper at the University of Virginia, has decided to remove the two comics from its website that the Catholic League complained about (see our news release of 9-5). “We are regretful that many took offense to them,” the newspaper has announced. “Offense was not our intent—neither the intent of the artist, [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on the latest Muslim reaction to Pope Benedict XVI’s address at Regensburg University on September 12: “It is a mark of a civilized people that they answer discourse they find disagreeable in a rational manner. Sadly, many Muslims are responding to the pope’s speech in an irrational way, making [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on Muslim reaction to Pope Benedict XVI’s September 12 lecture at Regensburg University: “Pope Benedict XVI is being widely denounced by Muslim leaders in Europe and the Middle East, and some are asking for an apology. The pope, who will travel to Turkey in November, was also condemned by [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue recently wrote to University of Minnesota president Robert Bruininks asking him to cancel a play, “The Pope and the Witch,” which is scheduled to open March 1, 2007. Donohue explains today why he wrote and how Bruininks responded: “The playwright, Dario Fo, is a well-known Stalinist and anti-Catholic bigot, and his [...]
The reaction to the ABC film, “The Path to 9/11,” is the subject of the following remarks by Catholic League president Bill Donohue: “When ‘The Da Vinci Code’ was in production, the Catholic League raised a red flag, the result of which was that we were denounced for criticizing a film before we had seen it. [...]
In the early morning hours of July 28, Mel Gibson was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving. But what got him into the most trouble was his comment, "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Our immediate response was to label Gibson's remark "indefensible," "anti-Semitic" and "irresponsible." But we also noted that [...]
Pop-singer Madonna took her "Confessions" tour to Rome on Sunday, August 4. During her song "Live To Tell," she wore a crown of thorns while suspended from a mirrored cross. On several national TV shows, Bill Donohue labeled Madonna's latest stunt "an act of provocation." Had she gone to Venice on a Saturday, he said, the [...]
William A. Donohue Mel Gibson got drunk, got behind the wheel and was arrested. What he did was irresponsible. He then blurted out anti-Semitic comments to the arresting officer, who happened to be Jewish. That was indefensible. Next he apologized—twice—without qualification. Which is what he should have done. Case closed? Not on your life: Mel's biggest [...]
By Jay P. Greene The following article is an excerpt from a longer piece that appeared in the July/August edition of The American Enterprise (the flagship publication of the American Enterprise Institute) titled, "Education Myths" (Greene has published a book by that name). Greene, who runs the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, and who [...]
Page 2 is usually reserved to promote books and publications that may be of interest to our members. But this month we are doing something different: we're advising against buying something. That something is the audio version of the book The Third Secret, by Steve Berry. In August, The Most Reverend John Clayton Nienstedt, Bishop of the [...]
