Catholic University of America recently came 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, was responsible [...]
A recent survey of Catholics conducted by the Pew Research Center highlighted the difference between practicing and non-practicing Catholics. It also tapped into the extent to which Catholics appear to be conflicted on moral issues. On questions regarding birth control, married priests, women priests, and same-sex marriages, the average approval difference between practicing and non-practicing Catholics [...]
The American Conservative Union (ACU), which is the host of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) extended an invitation to American Atheists for this year's CPAC Conference, but they eventually decided to rescind this decision. It took Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, to set off the alarms at CPAC. But it was too [...]
The following article by Bill Donohue was published by Newsmax on March 12: On June 19, 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade was a privately run operation that could write its own rules for participation. Writing for the high court, Justice David Souter noted that gays and lesbians had [...]
On the website of the liberal Catholic outlet, Commonweal, Mollie Wilson O'Reilly accused Pope Francis of ignoring the problem of priestly sexual abuse. According to her, "he [the pope] has said and done little about the scandal itself"; and she maintains that "things haven't been fixed." Similarly, Father Thomas P. Doyle said the pope "has done [...]
Almost everyone loves Pope Francis, but not among his admirers are two groups known as SNAP and Bishop-Accountabity.org, two of the most hate-filled activist outlets in the nation. SNAP has condemned the pope for doing "nothing—literally nothing—that protects a single child, exposes a single predator or prevents a single cover up." Not a single example, anywhere [...]
"Secrets of the Vatican," a 90 minute "Frontline" presentation, marked the 48th time that PBS addressed sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Though this problem is practically non-existent in the Catholic community these days, and is rampant in the public schools, as well as in the Orthodox Jewish community, PBS has devoted a combined total of [...]
Although the movie "Philomena" received four Oscar nominations, it did not win a single award. The film was shut out despite the fact that numerous lies were spread about it. The New York Times said it was a contender because one of its "advantages" was "its backing by the Weinstein Company, which even orchestrated an audience [...]
The following article by Bill Donohue was published by Newsmax on March 5: When the Marxist Sandinistas ousted the Somoza family in Nicaragua in 1979, they dressed in Castro-like fatigues to show their solidarity with the poor. They wound up crushing them, while conveniently living in the same mansions as the Somozas. Helping to raise money [...]
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