Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on news reports that the Vatican has endorsed the TV show, "The Simpsons": "Vatican Claims Homer is Catholic" reads the headline on the website of National Public Radio. The headline is false: the Vatican never made any such pronouncement. What happened is that one priest, Father Francesco Occhetta, commented favorably [...]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has declared multiculturalism to be a failure and is beckoning her nation to repair to its Christian roots. Catholic League president Bill Donohue supports her: At the beginning of the new millennium, there was a consensus in Europe on the virtues of multiculturalism. Attendant to this view was a profound reluctance to [...]
The miraculous rescue of all 33 Chilean miners is difficult to understand from a purely secular perspective. In this day and age of militant atheism, coupled with relentless assaults on Roman Catholicism, it is refreshing to read about the central role that Catholicism played in helping these courageous men survive, and of their enormous gratitude to [...]
On today's episode of the ABC-show, "The View," Bill O'Reilly said that 70 percent of Americans are opposed to the Ground Zero Mosque. This quickly upset Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, so when O'Reilly was pressed to explain, he said, "Because Muslims killed us on 9/11." Goldberg answered, "Extremists did that! What religion was McVeigh? There [...]
Last night's episode of the Fox program, "Glee," featured the character Finn as a Catholic priest, and Rachel as a nun (in provocative attire). They were shown singing "With You I'm Born Again." Catholic League president Bill Donohue noticed what's going on: Last week, "Glee" dealt with the subject of religion, though only Christianity was mocked, [...]
Yesterday, Catholic League president Bill Donohue sent a letter to the executive editors of the nation's top newspapers, and to the deans of the nation's top schools of journalism, drawing their attention to the decision by the Washington Post not to run an inoffensive cartoon by Wiley Miller in Sunday's edition. Because the "Non Sequitur" cartoon [...]
The decision by editors at the Washington Post not to run a cartoon that mentioned, but did not depict, Muhammad, is the subject of today's news release by Catholic League president Bill Donohue: On October 8, I noted how Universal decided to nix the words, "electric cars are so gay," from the trailer of "The Dilemma." [...]
In the trailer to a Universal movie, "The Dilemma," there is a scene where actor Vince Vaughn's character says, "Ladies and Gentlemen, electric cars are so gay." After some complaints, Universal has decided to pull the trailer and may delete this scene altogether from the film. Catholic League president Bill Donohue responds as follows: Earlier today [...]
The movie "Secretariat" is the subject of Catholic League president Bill Donohue's news release: Kudos to movie critic Roger Ebert, as well as to John Nolte at Breitbart.com, for lampooning Salon.com film reviewer Andrew O'Hehir's feverish take on "Secretariat." It's not just the movie's Christian overtones that upset O'Hehir, it's the alleged racism—even Nazi-driven—aspects of this [...]
A Montana truck driver, Kathleen Folden, took a crowbar to the Plexiglass case housing artwork at Colorado's Loveland Museum which depicted a man performing oral sex on Jesus. Folden was arrested after she ripped the artwork to pieces. Commenting is Catholic League president Bill Donohue: Had the art depicted a man performing fellatio on Muhammad, the [...]
