Bill Donohue comments on today's ABC show, "Good Morning America," which featured a segment on "Philomena": "GMA" interviewed Steve Coogan, a producer and screenwriter of "Philomena." In the voice over, the following was said: "Philomena is based on a true story about an Irishwoman played by Judi Dench who travels to the U.S. to track down [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the BBC's lies about Philomena Lee: In a news story just published, Chris Buckler, BBC Ireland Correspondent, writes that Philomena Lee's child was "taken away" from her. "When her son Anthony was three-and-a-half years old, the nuns in the convent gave him up for adoption to an American couple. It all happened [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the latest round of noise surrounding the film, "Philomena": On Saturday, the Independent.ie (Irish Independent) ran a story by Liz O'Donnell on "Philomena" saying that Philomena Lee's "child was stolen by the nuns." This is incorrect: the 18-year-old Lee, pregnant out-of-wedlock, was taken to the nuns by her widowed father, hoping they [...]
Bill Donohue comments on St. Valentine's Day crackups: The two greatest threats to liberty today, and to Catholicism, stem from militant secularism at home and militant Islam abroad. Both strains of extremism are on display today. Planned Parenthood's president Cecile Richards is celebrating St. Valentine's Day by tweeting a video where she says women need "safe [...]
Bill Donohue comments on more spin from the "Philomena" team: Earlier this year, Harvey Weinstein, distributor of "Philomena," went to Switzerland seeking to manipulate the pope: he lobbied Vatican officials there in an attempt to secure a private screening for Pope Francis. He failed. "The Holy Father does not see films and will not be seeing [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the latest lies about "Philomena": The lies told about the Weinstein-distributed film, "Philomena," never stop. Steve Coogan, who did the screenplay adaptation, and is one of the producers, appeared on MSNBC today to discuss the movie. Richard Liu, the host, said at one point, "And you're talking about a group of girls [...]
Catholic University of America has come under attack again for receiving a donation from the Koch Foundation. In December, Bill Donohue exposed Faith in Public Life, which led the first attack, as a group that is funded by a George Soros foundation, the Open Society Institute. Another left-wing entity, Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice, is spearheading [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a worldwide survey of Catholics by Bendixen & Amandi International for Univision: The survey of 12 nations yields some interesting results, but first a note on its methodology. Asking people to identify themselves as Catholic is not a sufficient condition for drawing conclusions: we need to know whether they regularly attend to [...]
Bill Donohue This article was originally published by Newsmax on February 6, 2014. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has just released a report on the way the Vatican has responded to the sexual abuse of minors by priests. The 15-page report contains not a single footnote, endnote, or any other mode [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the upcoming Oscar balloting: The song, "Alone Yet Not Alone," was nominated for an Oscar, but then the decision was rescinded; the tune is from a Christian film of the same title. "Philomena," a propaganda film strewn with lies about the Catholic Church [click here], has won four nominations. The Academy of [...]
