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CONAN HITS BELOW THE BELT

Bill Donohue comments on Conan O’Brien: On April 14, Conan O’Brien made fun of Pope Francis. On April 15, he made fun of Jesus. We said nothing about these two jokes because they were not insulting, and we are not in the business of criticizing comedians when they take light-hearted jabs at our religion. But last night was different. In... [Read more...]

KEEP NYC CARRIAGE HORSES

Bill Donohue comments on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to ban carriage horses from the streets of New York: It is not easy to unite the editorial boards of the New York Times, New York Post, Daily News, the labor unions, and the public (64 percent want to keep the carriage horses), but Mayor Bill de Blasio has done it: all oppose his... [Read more...]

ANOTHER PRIEST CLEARED OF MISCONDUCT

Bill Donohue comments on the disposition of a case against Fr. Michael O’Connell, a Chicago-area priest who was accused of abusing a minor: Someday an authoritative book will be written about all the priests who have been falsely accused, dragged through the mud, and had their reputations smeared by hate-filled accusers and vindictive lawyers.... [Read more...]

GUINNESS BOYCOTT TAPS KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Bill Donohue comments on the latest developments in the Catholic League’s boycott of Guinness: We have amassed over 7,000 email addresses from the Knights of Columbus, constituting over 1,500 councils across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Today, we are asking the Knights to join us in our boycott of Guinness. We are confident that... [Read more...]

JESUS’ FANTASY WIFE UNFURLS

Bill Donohue comments on the controversy over allegations that Jesus was married: In 2012, Karen L. King presented a small piece of papyrus with an inscription that indicated Jesus had a wife: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife….’” She was ecstatic, as were many in the media. It has now been determined by some scientists that... [Read more...]

THE DIVERSITY LIE

Bill Donohue comments on a new Pew Research Center report: It is one of the biggest myths of our day to say that the United States is a religiously diverse nation. It manifestly is not. But there is a lot of money, and ideological investment, at stake in pretending otherwise. Consider what happened when the Pew study on global religious diversity was... [Read more...]

INTRODUCING POPE LENNY

Bill Donohue comments on a new TV series about a fictional American pope, His Holiness Pope Lenny: Paolo Sorrentino, the Italian director who won an Oscar for best foreign film, “The Great Beauty,” is planning a TV series about the Vatican. According to Religion News Service, it will be about a “scandal-rife Vatican.” Imagine... [Read more...]

IS THE VATICAN HIDING ALIENS?

Bill Donohue comments on last night’s show, “Unsealed: Alien Files,” that aired on the Science Channel: The program speculates that “new evidence may prove the Vatican is hiding actual aliens from the public.” Either that or the channel will rename itself the Sci-fi Channel. The priest who directs the Vatican observatory,... [Read more...]

HIBERNIANS ASKED TO JOIN GUINNESS BOYCOTT

Bill Donohue comments on the latest developments in the Catholic League’s boycott of Guinness: Today we are contacting over 300 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) Divisions asking them to join us in our boycott of Guinness. Overall, we have collected 845 email addresses from 287 AOH websites. We expect that many, if not most, will endorse... [Read more...]

TRAVEL CHANNEL’S VATICAN “MYSTERY”

Bill Donohue comments on the Travel Channel’s “Greatest Mysteries: Vatican”; it premiered last night: Lies about Catholicism abound, and the intentional distortion of the truth is also commonplace. We’re used to it at the Catholic League. But there are times when the source astounds us. This happened today when John Mulvey, a... [Read more...]

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