Monthly Archives: July 2013

HOLLYWOOD AND HITLER

By |2017-03-20T17:51:07-04:00July 31st, 2013|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue comments on an article in the Hollywood Reporter by Ben Urwand that is an excerpt from his forthcoming book, The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler: Not only did the Hollywood studios obediently bow to Hitler’s masters by killing scenes deemed objectionable, they even hired Nazis at Paramount to work with them. The head of [...]

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CARDINAL GEORGE STANDS ON PRINCIPLE

By |2017-03-20T17:51:07-04:00July 31st, 2013|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue defends Francis Cardinal George: Everyone knows that the Catholic Church has a long and proud history of immigrant outreach. Everyone knows that the Catholic Church, like virtually every religion in the history of the world, believes marriage should be confined to one man and one woman. It should come as no surprise, then, that [...]

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POPULIST POPE PROVES IRRESISTIBLE

By |2017-03-20T17:51:08-04:00July 30th, 2013|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

In the wake of Pope Francis’ trip to Brazil, Bill Donohue comments on his irresistible appeal: Pope Francis is the perfect pontiff for our age, a truly populist pope. He is able to do something that few others have been able to do: he can espouse the traditional moral teachings of the Catholic Church—teachings that are [...]

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POPE ON GAYS DRIVES MEDIA WILD

By |2017-03-20T17:51:08-04:00July 29th, 2013|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue comments on media reaction to remarks made by Pope Francis on homosexual priests: The pope speaks about materialism for one straight week in Brazil before millions of people, and his formal comments garner 74 news stories on Lexis-Nexis. He speaks off-the-cuff about homosexual priests before a handful of reporters on the airplane going back [...]

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USA TODAY FLAGS LETTERMAN’S BIGOTRY

By |2017-03-20T17:51:08-04:00July 25th, 2013|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue comments on a poll taken today on the website of USA Today asking respondents to choose which video they liked best: the one where David Letterman compared all priests to molesters, or the one where Jay Leno said Pope Francis could be mistaken for Lady Gaga: Leno’s jab was inoffensive, but Letterman’s July 23 [...]

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CALIFORNIA SCHEMING; BILL NAILS CHURCH

By |2013-07-25T17:30:35-04:00July 25th, 2013|Categories: Catalyst, Front Page|Tags: |

California lawmakers are selectively targeting the Catholic Church by pushing a bill that would lift the statute of limitations for one year on cases of the sexual abuse of minors; it exempts all public institutions, including the public schools. Fighting the discriminatory law are Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, the California Catholic Conference and the Catholic [...]

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HHS FINAL RULES

By |2013-07-25T17:30:37-04:00July 25th, 2013|Categories: Catalyst, Front Page|Tags: |

The Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate forcing Catholic non-profits to pay for abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilization will not kick in on August 1, as scheduled; an extension has been granted to January 1, 2014. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ initial reaction was cautious; a complete analysis of the final rules is forthcoming. [...]

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TWENTY YEARS AS PRESIDENT

By |2013-07-25T17:17:01-04:00July 25th, 2013|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue July 1 marked my 20th anniversary as president and CEO of the Catholic League. The vice president, Bernadette Brady, started 18 years ago on the same day. Father Philip Eichner, the chairman of the board of directors, was chosen to lead the board the year before I was hired. While I may be [...]

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DONOHUE CONTACTS CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS

By |2017-03-20T17:51:08-04:00July 25th, 2013|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The following is the text of Bill Donohue’s letter to the members of the California Assembly: June 6, 2013 Dear Members of the California Assembly: Congratulations on passing AB 349, the bill that was passed unanimously on May 30 to prevent child abuse in the schools. A related bill was passed in the Senate the day [...]

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OHIO ST. UNIV. PREZ IS NO BIGOT

By |2013-07-25T17:30:40-04:00July 25th, 2013|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Last December, Ohio State University president E. Gordon Gee explained to the athletic council why the University of Notre Dame wasn’t invited to join the Big Ten: “The fathers are holy on Sunday, and they’re holy hell on the rest of the week. You just can’t trust those damn Catholics on a Thursday or a Friday, [...]

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