Bill Donohue comments on reaction to the Catholic League's call for a boycott of Guinness: The response to our boycott is overwhelming. From a bishop who belongs to the Eastern Catholic Church (Aramaic Rite) in Lima, Peru, to a former community organizer in New Jersey, we have seen an outpouring of angry Catholics who are fully [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a lawsuit brought by two Muslims from Long Island against the owners of the Empire State Building: Last July, Fahad and Amina Tirmizi and their two children went to the observation deck on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, dressed in traditional Muslim garb, and took a moment to recite [...]
Bill Donohue explains the Guinness boycott: Yesterday, I announced a boycott of Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams: the first two brewers pulled out of sponsoring the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City; the latter withdrew from the Boston parade. Prudence dictates that we concentrate our efforts on just one: we've settled on Guinness. Bostonians [...]
Bill Donohue is calling for a boycott of Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams: Diageo, the parent company of Guinness, and Heineken, have pulled their sponsorship of New York's St. Patrick's Day parade; the Boston Beer Company, maker of Sam Adams, has withdrawn its sponsorship of Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade. None of these companies believe in [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Rep. Nancy Pelosi: Yesterday, Rep. John Boehner extended an invitation to Pope Francis to speak before a joint session of the Congress. Joining with him was Rep. Nancy Pelosi. On March 27, Rep. Pelosi will receive Planned Parenthood's highest honor, The Margaret Sanger Award. Pelosi supports abortion-on-demand, and Planned Parenthood is responsible [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the latest left-wing attack on the pope: BishopAccountability.org purports to be an abuse watchdog, but in reality its only real agenda is to discredit the Catholic Church. Its latest stab at Pope Francis brings further discredit to its reputation. Indeed, as will be demonstrated, its report on the pope is pure McCarthyism. [...]
According to BishopAccountability.org, "He [the pope when he was a bishop in Argentina] released no documents, no names of accused priests, no tallies of accused priests, no policy for handling abuse, not even an apology to victims." The report excerpts a quote from a 2010 interview where Archbishop Bergoglio was asked about pedophilia. In part, he [...]
The Catholic League chose Monday, March 3 to make a special tribute to Pope Francis on the op-ed page of the New York Times; it is ten days before his one-year anniversary as the leader of over one billion Catholics. We will publish our op-ed ad in the next edition. By all accounts, the pope has [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court has put the brakes on the infamous Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate that would force Catholic non-profits, and objecting private businessmen, to pay for abortion-inducing drugs, contraception, and sterilization. The issue has yet to be fully resolved. On January 24, the Supreme Court issued an injunction blocking enforcement of the HHS [...]
William A. Donohue When Pope Francis speaks about our "throwaway" abortion culture, or comments on marriage as a union between a man and a woman, he wins no points from those on the left. But when he speaks about income inequality, he is praised by the likes of President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor [...]
