Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a statement by the National Organization for Women (NOW) attacking the Catholic Church: NOW is calling on the authorities to investigate sexual abuse in the "male-dominated Catholic Church," claiming that "girls as much as boys" are victims of sexual abuse. But the female-dominated organization is wrong as usual: homosexual [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Day 6 of the protest campaign on behalf of Mother Teresa: Today I am writing to the U.S. bishops in the Northeast notifying them that Anthony Malkin, the owner of the Empire State Building, has decided not to overrule those who have chosen to deny a tribute to Mother [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on who the league is contacting today regarding the Mother Teresa campaign: Today I am writing to the top government officials in charge of the 28 states that comprise the nation of India. They are being notified about the decision by Anthony Malkin, the owner of the Empire State Building, [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue released the following comment today: The front-page article in yesterday's New York Times on New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan was summarily ignored by the mainstream media. As I said yesterday in my release on the story, "No other newspaper in the nation would post a front-page story on a religious leader [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on who the league is contacting today regarding the Mother Teresa campaign: Last week we began our petition drive protesting the decision by Anthony Malkin, the owner of the Empire State Building, not to overrule those who have chosen to deny a tribute to Mother Teresa: our request to have [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in yesterday's New York Times, "Justice for Child Abuse Victims," that criticizes the Catholic Church: The New York Times says "The Catholic Church is working against the interests of child abuse victims in state legislatures around the country," citing as proof its attempt to block laws in [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on today's New York Times front-page article on New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan: Times reporter Serge F. Kovaleski has been investigating Archbishop Dolan for a year, and today he gave it his best shot. Dolan has nothing to worry about—Kovaleski failed to lay a glove on him. But it wasn't [...]
Beginning in March, and extending well into April, the New York Times ran a series of articles seeking to tie Pope Benedict XVI to the priestly sexual abuse scandal. It was quickly joined by other media outlets, the most prominent of which was the Associated Press. The net result was an absolute explosion of anti-Catholic bigotry, the most [...]
From the time we learned that Dawn Johnsen was chosen to head the Office of Legal Counsel, we have been on a relentless PR campaign alerting the public, and U.S. senators, to her anti-Catholic record. On April 9, our wish came true: she withdrew her name from nomination. “The Catholic League is delighted that Catholics will [...]
n last month’s edition of Catalyst, I discussed the heroics of Father Richard Frechette, the priest/physician who has labored among the dispossessed in Haiti for over two decades. Now I want to explain what inspires this extraordinary priest (my comments are gleaned from his book, Haiti: The God of Tough Places, the Lord of Burnt Men, published by [...]
