Bill Donohue comments on the response by Jody Ian Goeler, Superintendent of Schools for Regional School District 14 in Connecticut, to accusations that the Vatican website has been blocked in district schools because it promotes "hate speech": Yesterday afternoon, I asked Superintendent Goeler to "please identify examples of 'hate speech' found on the Vatican's website." He [...]
Bill Donohue comments on news stories claiming that a Connecticut high school has censored the Vatican website: Nonnewaug High School in Woodbury, Connecticut has allegedly implemented a firewall blocking some websites it deems are "politically oriented." Among those that are blocked is the Vatican's website. Also blocked are the websites of the National Right to Life, [...]
Bill Donohue comments on San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone's response to those protesting his participation in the March for Marriage; it is being held tomorrow in Washington: A motley group of public officials, community activists, religious leaders, and gay advocates are upset that Archbishop Cordileone supports marriage, properly understood. It is a striking sociological moment when [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the Guinness boycott: Three months ago today, on St. Patrick's Day, we called for a boycott of Guinness. We did so because the night before the march in New York City, Guinness announced that it was pulling its sponsorship of the parade because gays were banned from marching (this is a lie). [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Rep. Nancy Pelosi's opposition to the March for Marriage later this week: Rep. Nancy Pelosi does not simply reject the Catholic Church's teachings on marriage, abortion, and contraception—she is a rabid foe of the Church's positions. Now she has gone beyond her usual stance by lecturing her archbishop on the folly of [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the latest developments in the Catholic League's boycott of Guinness: An additional 336 more Irish pubs along the West Coast have been contacted to join our boycott of Guinness, including pubs in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego and Denver. To sign our Boycott Guinness Petition click here. Contact Alix Dunn at [...]
Bill Donohue comments on St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson: According to attorney Jeffrey Anderson, as well as Commonweal, and other media outlets, the transcript of the exchange between Anderson and Archbishop Carlson reveals that the archbishop did not know it was a crime for an adult to have sex with a child. They are all wrong. [...]
Bill Donohue comments on how Commonweal is treating St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson: It is pathetic to read how Commonweal, home to Catholic dissidents, is straining to put the worst possible face on St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson's exchange with Jeffrey Anderson. Every objective observer who has ever tracked Anderson knows that this lawyer has a [...]
Bill Donohue comments on media bias against St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson: On June 9, attorney Jeff Anderson released video clips from a May 23 deposition transcript of Archbishop Carlson. It was vintage Anderson: he misrepresented the truth. What the media did, led by the editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was to echo [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the latest developments in the Catholic League's boycott of Guinness: An additional 260 Irish pubs across the south have been asked to join the boycott of Guinness. Pubs in the largest cities of Georgia, Florida, Texas and Louisiana have been contacted about the boycott. We will continue to announce additional cities where [...]
