Catholic League president Bill Donohue issued the following statement today on Bill O’Reilly’s remarks about the Vatican that he made last night on his Fox News show: “Bill O’Reilly cannot blame his ignorance of all things Catholic on his high school because Chaminade, located in Mineola, Long Island, is the flagship Catholic school in the New [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on an anti-Christmas poster that is being flagged by an atheist website: “Type ‘atheism’ in the Yahoo search engine and the first website to appear is atheism.about.com. On the home page, click on the ‘Image Gallery’ on the left and then click on ‘War on Christmas Propaganda Posters.’ Or [...]
When Pope Benedict XVI gave his scholarly address before a learned audience at Regensburg University, he had no idea it would lead to a massive uproar among so many Muslims. Ever since giving his September 12 address, the pope has been bombarded with criticism, much of it patently unfair. In the course of his lengthy remarks, [...]
NBC announced on October 19 that it would cut the "Mock Crucifixion" segment from its November 22 airing of Madonna's "Confessions" concert. NBC did the right thing, but the fact that it did not say why the offensive part of Madonna's concert was cut showed cowardice. What NBC should have done is to admit that since [...]
William A. Donohue As a trained sociologist, my academic experience leans heavily towards nurture-based explanations of human behavior. But a lot of social science scholarship has evolved since I received my doctorate in sociology from New York University in 1980, and much of it shows that nature-based explanations have been too easily dismissed. No matter which [...]
Pat Oliphant, a popular syndicated cartoonist, took the occasions of the Pope's remarks about Islam and Congressman Foley's disgrace to bash the Catholic Church. What is particularly troubling about Oliphant's cartoons is that he has previously spoken out against wantonly attacking a religion. Earlier this year, Oliphant deemed the Danish cartoons that so enraged Muslims "needless [...]
On October 1, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) aired a documentary, "Sex Crimes and the Vatican," that accused Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) of covering up priestly sexual abuse for 20 years. The show, which aired on the BBC's flagship, Panorama, says that Cardinal Ratzinger had been in charge of enforcing a 1962 Vatican [...]
Former congressman Mark Foley resigned from the House on September 29 following news that he sent sexually explicit e-mails to congressional pages. On October 3, his lawyer gave a news conference, during which he said Foley was abused by a clergyman when he was a teenager. Since Foley is a Catholic, the suggestion is that a [...]
We just had two bouts with left-wing extremists that we'd like to share with you. Kirsten A. Powers is a former member of the Clinton administration and a New York-based consultant to the Democratic party. She recently wrote a piece for The American Prospect, an online left-wing outlet, that was so good we asked for permission to [...]
It's interesting that the Catholic Church has been a major topic of discussion recently on the ABC-TV show "The View." It's unfortunate, however, that the discussion was nothing but ridicule and slander. On the September 28 program, the four panelists held a glass of red wine while joking about its alcoholic effects. After Rosie O'Donnell made [...]
