Bill Donohue Kiss It Good-Bye: The Mystery, the Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates by John Moody. Shadow Mountain, 2010. Available on Amazon.com It’s April, and that means it’s time for baseball. Fans of all teams will be drawn to John Moody’s inspiring volume, and this is especially true of those from Western [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a news story just posted by the Associated Press (AP) titled, "Vatican to Bishops: Follow Law, Report Sex Abuse": The Vatican decided to add a sentence to its guidelines on sex abuse, making plain the need for bishops to follow civil reporting laws. Here is how AP decided to [...]
Dawn Johnsen has decided to withdraw her name from consideration as an appointee in the Justice Department; she was picked by President Obama to lead the Office of Legal Counsel. Commenting on her decision is Catholic League president Bill Donohue: The Catholic League is delighted that Catholics will not have to contend with Dawn Johnsen running [...]
In a letter to the editor in today’s New York Times, Julie Green Bataille, Associate Vice President for Communications at Georgetown University, responds to Maureen Dowd’s April 7 column, “The Church’s Judas Moment.” In the column Dowd’s brother Kevin wrote, “Georgetown University agreeing to cover religious symbols on stage to get President Obama to speak [in April [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest developments in the sexual abuse scandal: Every news story and commentary stating that the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is widening is factually wrong. The evidence shows just the opposite—it has been contracting for approximately a quarter century. Here's the proof: the John Jay College [...]
Maureen Dowd has an article in today's New York Times titled, "The Church's Judas Moment." Catholic League president Bill Donohue couldn't resist a rejoinder: It is next to impossible for Maureen Dowd to write a piece about the Catholic Church without sounding whiny. Always the victim, Maureen is forever put upon by the boys in robes. [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains how the Catholic Church can resolve the sex abuse scandal: The best thing the Catholic Church could possibly do would be to mimic the success of the public schools, especially in New York City. For example, the New York Times, which has a story today about an accused priest from [...]
AP is reporting that in the course of a TV interview on Sunday, the archbishop of Santiago, Chile said he was investigating "a few" cases of priestly sexual abuse. We decided to give AP a tip by bringing similar stories to its attention, all of which were reported in the last week in the U.S. (since [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on two news stories released today by the Associated Press: One of the AP stories on priestly sexual abuse admits that "The overwhelming majority of the victims were adolescents. That means very few guilty priests were pedophiles, a term mental health professionals reserve for those who target pre-pubescent children." Fine. [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue replies to those who are accusing him of defending Father Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legionaries of Christ. Maciel sexually abused seminarians and fathered a child. Here is Donohue's response: Many articles have recently been written claiming that a "who's who" of conservative Catholic intellectuals once defended Father Maciel from [...]
