The ACLU of Southern California and the Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations recently sued the FBI for violating the rights of Muslims by sending an informant to spy on them in a California mosque. The FBI was investigating possible terrorist threats, but the lawsuit claims it was guilty of “indiscriminate surveillance.” The [...]
We ran this ad [click here] in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on March 14 in response to Jeffrey Anderson’s media campaign recruiting alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the spike in false claims made against priests: The report on clergy abuse was released a week ago today, and for some reason, there has been virtually no reporting on what may be the most important finding of them all: the 42 percent increase in accusations found to [...]
Bill Donohue People often ask me how I got started with the Catholic League. That’s easy: it was due in large measure to Bishop Donald Wuerl, now Donald Cardinal Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington. When I was a professor at a local college in Pittsburgh, I knew him as my bishop, and he got to know [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the response to the New York Times ad that ran on Monday: The response to our ad, "Straight Talk About the Catholic Church," has been so overwhelming that we are running it again this Sunday in the Chicago Tribune. We've heard from bishops, priests and religious, as well [...]
Dr. Steve Taylor, a Louisiana psychiatrist who has worked with the Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests (SNAP), has been sentenced to two years in prison for possession of child pornography. The news drew the following response from Catholic League president Bill Donohue: How many more morally debased psychiatrists are working with SNAP? [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an article that appears today on the front page of the "Style" section of the New York Times: What's wrong with masturbating in front of a woman reporter? What's wrong with walking around the workplace in your underpants? What's wrong with charges of sexual molestation being brought by [...]
There are many ways of writing an annual report: some organizations list a few major accomplishments, while others provide a tally of incidents or events. We don’t quantify—it’s not easy to do so with qualitative data— but we do offer a descriptive account of the challenges that Catholicism faced in the previous year. Our goal, of [...]
When 2011 began, we did not expect that we would spend a disproportionate amount of time addressing attacks on the Catholic Church stemming from charges of clergy sexual abuse. But we did. Consider how this unfolded. At the beginning of 2002, the Boston Globe published a series of articles on priestly sexual abuse in the Boston [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses the lawsuit brought by attorney Jeffrey Anderson against the Vatican: Jeffrey Anderson has tried several times to sue the Vatican over alleged abuse cases that date back decades. He has never won. Nor will he win this time. That's because his charges are bogus. Anderson accuses Cardinal Joseph [...]
