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HBO SHOULD LEARN FROM NBA
June 3, 2013
Bill Donohue comments on Bill Maher’s HBO Friday night show: Maher’s obsession with Catholicism was on display again Friday night. His joking around about the pope being an atheist crossed no lines, nor did his swipe at Jesus being a hippie. But he just can’t get through a conversation about the Catholic Church without getting dirty. Guest Paul... [Read more...]
WHAT’S WRONG WITH LIBERAL CATHOLICS?
May 31, 2013
Bill Donohue says liberal Catholics need to explain themselves: Peter Steinfels, who wrote the obituary on Father Andrew M. Greeley in today’s New York Times, notes that “there was resistance among liberal Catholics to his [Greeley’s] positive findings about Catholic schools.” This is striking. Steinfels, himself a liberal, is writing about... [Read more...]
OHIO ST. UNIV. PREZ IS NO BIGOT
May 30, 2013
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, and so, literally, I can say that.” Bill... [Read more...]
LIES OF THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES
May 30, 2013
Bill Donohue comments as follows: We are releasing a booklet today that I wrote, Myths of the Magdalene Laundries, that debunks the conventional wisdom about these Catholic-run facilities in Ireland. Based on the McAleese Report, the Irish government study that was released in February, the booklet examines the origins of the many myths that have surfaced... [Read more...]
“NUNS ON THE BUS” ARE ROLLING AGAIN
May 29, 2013
Bill Donohue comments on the news that “Nuns on the Bus,” a project of NETWORK, a Catholic dissident group, has hit the road again: The last time “Nuns on the Bus” rolled out of town the bus was almost empty: only two made the entire trip, and never were there more than seven on the (luxury) bus at any one time. Today, they are leaving from... [Read more...]
EXPOSING CATHOLIC WHISTLEBLOWERS
May 21, 2013
Bill Donohue comments on reports of a new Catholic group: There was a time when we needed a group called Catholic Whistleblowers, but this assembly is a little too late: they missed the boat by a half-century. The homosexual scandal began in the mid-1960s and ended 20 years later. Today, it hardly exists. In 2012, there were six credible allegations... [Read more...]
TWIN PHILLY SCANDALS
May 20, 2013
Bill Donohue issued the following remarks today: There are two scandals going on in Philadelphia, and both involve injustices done to the Catholic Church. One is legal, and the other is journalistic. The legal scandal involves the prosecution of three Catholic priests, and one Catholic layman, in a case so incredible that it would be turned down as... [Read more...]
IRS TARGETED CATHOLIC LEAGUE
May 16, 2013
Bill Donohue has written a piece for Newsmax explaining, for the first time, how the IRS targeted the Catholic League right after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. The lawyers who triggered the complaint did so at the behest of a left-wing activist who worked for a George Soros-funded organization; Donohue has the proof. The same activist... [Read more...]
CORRUPT NJ PAPERS AND POLS
May 14, 2013
Bill Donohue comments on the way New Jersey newspapers and politicians are reacting to cases of clergy sexual abuse: A priest gropes a teenager 12 years ago while wrestling and is told not to be around minors unless supervised. He breaks the agreement. Here’s how New Jersey newspapers and politicians responded. Calling for the resignation of the... [Read more...]
PROBE OF PHILLY D.A.’s OFFICE REQUESTED
May 13, 2013
A series of legal problems attendant to a civil suit against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has led Catholic League president Bill Donohue to call for an official investigation into the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office. On May 9, Donohue sent a letter in the priority mail to Anthony P. Sodroski, Disciplinary Counsel-in-Charge of the Disciplinary... [Read more...]