Bill Donohue comments on why the Catholic League erected a life-size nativity scene in Central Park today; it will be up through the holidays: Our manger scene, which is on the corner of 59th Street and 5th Avenue, is being displayed for several reasons: We are celebrating the true purpose of Christmas, which is the birth of [...]
Bill Donohue comments on office Christmas parties: Many label us conservative, but we're not the uptight ones when it comes to the annual office Christmas party. We know how to party. Helen Sorrentino of The Alternative Press advises employers to limit office parties to "a few hours." I manifestly disagree—ours is open-ended and could go on [...]
Within hours of registering a formal complaint with the top Army brass at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, a female Catholic soldier's rights were restored. More important, reforms were immediately put into place guaranteeing the religious liberty rights of Catholics on the base. After learning that a female soldier enrolled in Advanced Individual Training at the base had [...]
The Catholic League's enormous Times Square billboard (click here) sends a message that is both joyful and serious: Christians will not allow the Scrooges in our society to stop us from honoring Jesus. Scrooges are trying to censor Christmas again. In Bordentown, New Jersey the superintendent of schools initially sought to ban religious Christmas music from [...]
William A. Donohue Even though roughly 80 percent of Americans are Christian, 96 percent celebrate Christmas. Can non-Christians and non-believers really celebrate Christmas? To some extent they can, just the same way those who are not Irish can celebrate St. Patrick's Day: they can partake in the fun aspects of it, but that's it. At bottom, [...]
On September 27, University of South Florida (USF) professor Dr. Timothy M. Weil insulted Catholics at a public forum off campus. Someone who was at the event contacted the Catholic League about it. Bill Donohue then wrote a letter to USF officials (see p. 4) about the incident. After almost three weeks elapsed, Donohue went public [...]
Below is a copy of the October 3 letter sent by Bill Donohue to officials at the University of South Florida (USF) concerning an anti-Catholic incident. After giving the university two weeks to respond, Donohue went public; only then did this case move forward. October 3, 2013 Dr. Mario Hernandez University of South Florida Chairman, [...]
In mid-November, an election was held for the new president and vice president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Baltimore. Those who have been pushing the bishops to abandon their opposition to the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate, abortion and gay marriage lost big time last month. On November 13, the [...]
Four recent news stories, covering priests in Baltimore, Philadelphia, St. Paul and Chicago, make it clear that no Catholic priest is safe. Anyone can accuse a priest of molestation, no matter how long ago, and get away with it. Father Michael Kolodziej, who is a former Minister Provincial of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, was [...]
In November, the U.S. Senate passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), legislation that is being touted as progress for gay rights. The House did not take the bill up immediately; its fate is uncertain. The Catholic League raised serious questions about the consequences of ENDA in 2007, and while some aspects of the bill have improved, [...]
