For the fifth consecutive year, a bill that would amend the statute of limitations for sexually abused minors has died in the New York State legislature. Unlike other years, this year’s bill covered public institutions, as well as private ones like the Catholic Church. Predictably, because the legislation included public schools, the bill was met with [...]
We recently found out that we lost one of our most loyal members on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. Monsignor William McKay was ordained May 7, 1949 at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois. After making his mark in Chicago, he took his considerable talents to Arizona, first in San Manuel, then Tucson, [...]
Joseph A. Varacalli, Ph.D. John Paul II: Confronting the Language Empowering the Culture of Death by William Brennan. Sapientia Press, 2008. Available on Amazon.com Language both shapes and is shaped by society and its social movements, organizations, and individuals. To this must be added the reality of “power”: just who and what has the ability to generate [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Day 44 of the protest campaign on behalf of Mother Teresa: Today I am writing to every parish in Manhattan informing them of our protest demonstration at 6 p.m. on August 26 outside the Empire State Building on 34th Street and 5th Avenue. The rally is being held to [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Day 43 of the protest campaign on behalf of Mother Teresa: Today I am writing to every parish in Suffolk County informing them of our protest demonstration at 6 p.m. on August 26 outside the Empire State Building on 34th Street and 5th Avenue. The rally is being held [...]
An adjunct professor at the University of Illinois, Ken Howell, has been fired for explaining in an e-mail that homosexuality violates Catholic natural law teachings. Commenting is Catholic League president Bill Donohue: The University of Illinois should be sued, and we will work with professor Ken Howell in seeing to it that it is. He was [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Day 42 of the protest campaign on behalf of Mother Teresa: Today I am writing to every parish in Nassau County informing them of our protest demonstration on August 26 outside the Empire State Building on 34th Street and 5th Avenue. The rally is being held to protest the [...]
Recently, CNN fired Octavia Nasr for praising Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah on her Twitter account. Following his death, Nasr wrote that she was “sad” to hear of his passing and said that he was “One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.” While commenting on this story on AOL News, contributor Paul Wachter asked whether [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in today’s New York Times: When New York State was considering two bills dealing with the sexual abuse of minors, the New York Times endorsed the one that did not apply to the public schools. And today it has the nerve to lecture the pope for not [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Day 41 of the protest campaign on behalf of Mother Teresa: Today I am writing to the order priests in the New York Tri-State area informing them of our protest demonstration on August 26 outside the Empire State Building on 34th Street and 5th Avenue. The rally is being [...]
