November 20 Alsip, IL – The Freedom From Religion Foundation used the threat of a lawsuit to force the Village of Alsip to cancel the display of a cross on its water tower, which had been a tradition going back decades. November 27 Madison, WI – The Freedom From Religion Foundation placed its “Natural Nativity Scene” [...]
January 22 Dorcester, MA – At Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Church, a statue of Jesus was decapitated and moved off its base. February 22 Union City, CA – On Ash Wednesday, vandals attacked St. Anne’s Church, splitting and toppling an eight-foot cross from its cement foundation. Statues of the Holy Family were spray-painted black. The [...]
Bill Donohue comments on yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments over Proposition 8 and same-sex marriage: Charles Cooper, the lawyer defending Proposition 8, urged the high court not to refocus “the definition of marriage away from the raising of children and to the emotional needs and desires of adults.” In doing so, he was simply restating [...]
Bill Donohue explains the next step in the Catholic League’s response to Bill Maher’s Catholic bashing: Having given up on HBO to do anything about Bill Maher’s bigotry, we are contacting the board of directors of Time Warner, the parent company of HBO. All will receive a report detailing Maher’s relentless assaults on priests, dating back [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Bill Maher’s latest attack: The March 22nd episode of “Real Time” was one of Bill Maher’s most obscene assaults on Catholicism. He not only went on another rant against the Catholic Church, he stooped to a new low when he attacked Pope Francis. After labeling the pope a “virgin bachelor,” Maher opined, [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the “Stomp On Jesus” stunt orchestrated by Florida Atlantic University professor Deandre Poole: On Friday, I wrote to Dr. Poole asking why he didn’t invite his students to write the name “Obama” on a piece of paper—instead of “Jesus”—and then have them stomp on it. I also provided Poole’s e-mail address so [...]
The following letter by Bill Donohue was e-mailed to Florida Atlantic University professor Deandre Poole today: Dear Dr. Poole: The assignment you gave asking students to stomp on a piece of paper with the word “Jesus” on it was reportedly an exercise in the cultural meaning of symbols taken from the textbook, “Intercultural Communications: A Contextual [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the latest statement by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate: The March 20 statement by the USCCB (made by general counsel Anthony Picarello and associate general counsel Michael F. Moses) on the HHS revisions is the most definitive assessment to date. Though [...]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is endangering the lives of poor African American and Hispanic women. While he does not intend to do so, this is the inescapable outcome of his radical abortion-without-limits proposal. Moreover, Cuomo wants to allow non-physicians to do abortions. History shows that when abortion standards are relaxed, the ones who suffer are [...]
By Bill Donohue This article was originally published at Newsmax.com on March 20, 2013. In his March 19th blog post from Rome, Cardinal Timothy Dolan made it clear that although he could not be with his brother bishops in Albany to address key public policy issues, he wanted everyone to know of his support for laws [...]
