Monthly Archives: March 2011

COMEDIANS BARE THE TRUTH ON SEXUAL ABUSE

By |2017-03-20T17:53:01-04:00March 31st, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: For years, the Catholic League has maintained that priests accused of sexual abuse are treated differently than any other segment of the population. This is especially true when the abuser is a celebrity. Last night, a comedian on "Chelsea Lately," Joe Matarese, made exactly this point, however unwittingly. [...]

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MACY’S OFFENDS CATHOLICS

By |2013-01-25T21:42:00-05:00March 31st, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on how Macy's department store is offending Catholics: Why Macy's would want to pick a fight with Catholics during the Lenten season is not known, but that it has is certain. Here's the background. This weekend, Showtime will begin airing a series, "The Borgias," a corrupt Spanish family, one of [...]

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RELIGIOUS REALITY CHECK

By |2012-10-10T18:54:06-04:00March 30th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue offers a religious reality check based on some news items from today:   Bart Ehrman doesn't believe in God, which is why he is just the right guy to teach religion at the University of North Carolina. It's not as though he is uninterested in religion—he likes to study the Bible, [...]

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NEWS FLASH: PRIESTS HAVE RIGHTS

By |2017-03-20T17:53:01-04:00March 29th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: , , |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on recent attacks on the rights of priests:   In an editorial that is pure boilerplate, the Seattle Times said yesterday that 37 priests in the Philadelphia archdiocese have been allowed to continue in ministry despite a finding of sexual misconduct by a grand jury. But the grand jury did [...]

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PICTURE POLITICS

By |2011-09-01T16:31:55-04:00March 29th, 2011|Categories: Chatterbox...|

There is a story about an abusive Jesuit priest in today's New York Times. The headline reads, "Suit Says Jesuits Ignored Decades of Warnings About Priest." There is a large picture of Father Donald McGuire with his hand on the back of a young boy on the day of his First Communion. The caption below says [...]

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MORE HYPOCRISY

By |2011-09-01T16:28:04-04:00March 29th, 2011|Categories: Chatterbox...|

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald who apparently has been out in the sun for too long. In a column that appears today in the Olympian (Olympia, Washington), he is hot under the collar about the way Muslims are allegedly being victimized by an "irrational panic" (as if there were such a [...]

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BOYS LIKE “BOOK OF MORMON”

By |2012-10-10T18:54:07-04:00March 25th, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the way critics are receiving the new Broadway musical, "The Book of Mormon":   When Trey Parker and Matt Stone die, the obit page should label them as talented yet cowardly artists. After all, as Terry Teachout in the Wall Street Journal says, it takes no guts to bash [...]

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SOUTH DAKOTA: MODEL FOR REDUCING ABORTIONS

By |2012-10-10T18:54:08-04:00March 23rd, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:   For the past few years, the pro-abortion community has inexplicably said they support "abortion reduction" efforts (it is not clear why they would want to reduce the rates of a procedure they say is non-lethal). In any event, they should now be supporting what is going on [...]

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CATHOLIC VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE

By |2012-10-10T18:54:08-04:00March 23rd, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a new survey of Catholics by the Public Religion Research Institute:   Do Catholics support homosexual marriage? It depends on how Catholic they are. Those who attend a few times a year think it's fine (59 percent); those who attend once or twice a month are mostly opposed (only [...]

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PRIESTS AND NUNS MOCKED ON “LOPEZ TONIGHT”

By |2017-03-20T17:53:01-04:00March 23rd, 2011|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

On last night’s episode of “Lopez Tonight” a skit was performed featuring a priest who ran a religious-themed strip club, “Bad Habits.” Among the dancers were two nuns in full habit and an altar boy.   Catholic League president Bill Donohue addressed this show today:   This isn’t the first time George Lopez has gone after [...]

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