Defending Bishop Finn
Click here to read Bill Donohue's defense of Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
BOSTON GLOBE LECTURES ARCHDIOCESE
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the Boston Globe's response to Cardinal Sean O'Malley's decision to halt a Mass at St. Cecilia's in honor of Gay Pride Month: In today's editorial, the Boston Globe pretends that "No one would have had the misimpression that the church was endorsing gay sex" by allowing the Mass [...]
“NASTY THOUGHTS” OF MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS
On the website of the National Catholic Reporter, Michael Sean Winters says he had the following "nasty thought" today: "Where is Bill Donohue When You Need Him?" This is in reference to Donohue's silence in the wake of Father Robert Sirico's recent article on Ayn Rand, and her fictional character in Atlas Shrugged, John Galt. [...]
SPIKE IN SUSPECT ALLEGATIONS
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: As the bishops assemble this week in Seattle, they will once again grapple with the issue of clergy abuse. While some recent allegations are worthy of pursuit, others don't pass the smell test. All of the following cases have been reported in the news since June 1: [...]
U.N. PANEL’S BOGUS APPEAL TO IRELAND
A United Nations panel, the Committee against Torture, has asked the Irish government to investigate allegations of mistreatment of young women who used to work in Catholic laundries. Specifically, the panel says that alleged abuses in the so-called Magdalene Laundries, workhouses run by nuns from the 1920s to the mid-1990s, should be investigated with an eye [...]
JON STEWART INSULTS CATHOLICS; YAHOO! NEWS COVERS IT UP
On last night's episode of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," the host joked about Rep. Anthony Weiner's situation with correspondent John Oliver. During their skit, Stewart ridiculed Weiner by sipping frantically on a Margarita, imitating the way Weiner sips from a water bottle. Stewart then accidentally broke his glass. Oliver, seeing Stewart's hand bleeding, [...]
WHAT IF REP. WEINER WERE REV. WEINER?
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: Priests who engage in lewd conversations with teenagers are suspended from ministry for committing a "boundary violation," and are charged with sexual abuse. But Rep. Anthony Weiner can send pornographic images of himself to young girls and he is free as a bird. Indeed, the majority of [...]
ROGUE CATHOLICS UNWELCOME IN DETROIT
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron's rebuff of this weekend's meeting of the American Catholic Council at Detroit's Cobo Hall: It is with good reason that Archbishop Vigneron has warned local priests and deacons not to participate in the American Catholic Council event: many of those who will attend [...]
“DR. DEATH” DIES A NATURAL DEATH
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the death of Dr. Jack Kevorkian: Unlike his lucky "patients," Jack-"Dr. Death"-Kevorkian died of natural causes, wholly unassisted by physicians. He had much in common with the doctors of Weimar, Germany, who perfected the sick idea of "Healing by Killing." Kevorkian, whose favorite motto was, "Ready or not, [...]
LEFT CRITICS OF JOHN JAY STUDY
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the critical reaction to the John Jay study of priestly sexual abuse: The left-wing attack on the John Jay study proves once again that art critic Harold Rosenberg was exactly right to say that liberals represent a "herd of independent minds." Ever since the New York Times criticized the [...]