Bill Donohue addresses the latest ISIS rampage: Beginning in 1966, at the outset of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards went on a rampage destroying museums and bulldozing graves. Now ISIS is doing the same thing in Iraq. Sledgehammers have been used to behead statues and other artifacts at the Mosul Museum—winged bulls dating to [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Janet Maslin's review of Frog, a novel by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan: Janet Maslin has been reviewing movies and books for the New York Times for several decades, and up until now she has faithfully toed the newspaper's line on abortion. In her 2009 review of The Snakehead by Patrick Radden [...]
The Catholic League's 2014 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism is now available. It covers anti-Catholic incidents that occurred last year emanating from a variety of sources: activist organizations, the arts, business and the workplace, education, government, and the media. In addition to a miscellaneous section, it also has two special sections: "War on the Bishops" and "The [...]
On February 17, eight California lawmakers wrote a letter to San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone condemning the proposed union contract for teachers who work at the four archdiocese high schools. On February 23, two of these legislators asked the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee and the Assembly Judiciary Committee to launch an investigation. Bill Donohue wrote [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Comedy Central's show, "Kevin Hart Presents: Keith Robinson Back of the Bus Funny," which aired February 21: This live stand-up premier was trimmed, for programming purposes, to an hour, which means the filthy attack on priests was considered too important not to make the cut. Produced by Kevin Hart, comedian Keith Robinson [...]
Bill Donohue comments on why ISIS succeeds in getting new recruits: On February 16, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said that "lack of opportunity for jobs" is one of the most prominent "root causes" driving ISIS recruitment efforts. Two days later, President Obama addressed the same issue, echoing Hart's explanation. After acknowledging that "poverty alone does [...]
Bill Donohue comments on remarks made by President Obama this week on Muslim Americans: It is important to reassure Muslim Americans that they are not the enemy. Indeed, they should be as welcome here as any immigrant group. But there is no need to pander to them. Yesterday, in his remarks at the end of the [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a Gallup poll released yesterday that details how the states vary on church attendance: Gallup's latest effort on measuring religious practices is drawn from its daily tracking interviews in 2014. It sought to tap how often Americans in each state attended church, synagogue, or mosque. The study found that ten of the [...]
Here is how ISIS, Pope Francis and President Obama responded to the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians: ISIS: "A Message Signed With Blood To The Nation Of The Cross" is the title of a video it released. "All praise is due to Allah the strong and mighty." It boasted how it was "chopping off the heads [...]
The following is an excerpt of remarks made today on KFI Radio (an ABC affiliate) in Los Angeles: Bill Handel: "Do you think the pope masturbates?" Gary Hoffman [co-host]: "No." Michelle Kube [producer]: "No, I don't think." Handel: "I'm willing to bet there have been times when…" Hoffman: "He's tearing that little fella right now" Handel: [...]
