July 16, 2014: Newsmax TV
Bill Donohue on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show”
NEW ASSAULT ON RELIGIOUS RIGHTS
Bill Donohue comments on the latest assault on religious rights: Anticipating a loss in the Hobby Lobby case, the Obama administration, together with Congressional Democrats, worked overtime this year on a law that would effectively gut the high court ruling. They also plotted to gut the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), upon which the case is [...]
MAHER IS A BIGOT, NOT A COMEDIAN
On the July 11 episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," Maher discussed the Hobby Lobby case that the U.S. Supreme Court recently decided. Here is an excerpt: "...but the five Catholic men on the Supreme Court agreed with Hobby Lobby that those women who have pleasure sex should be saddled with a baby." "And those [...]
COURT RULES AGAINST SEAL OF CONFESSION
Bill Donohue comments on a ruling made by the Supreme Court of Louisiana: In 2008, a fourteen-year-old girl alleges that she told her parish priest that she was being abused by a now-deceased lay member of their parish. The girl alleges the disclosures came during the Sacrament of Confession. Now her parents are suing the priest, [...]
ATHEIST BIGOTS SLAM CATHOLICS
Bill Donohue comments on a full-page ad in today's New York Times placed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation: Most atheists are not bigots, but many atheists who are activists most definitely are. Among them are the anti-Catholics who work at the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). In today's New York Times FFRF takes out its [...]
COMPLAINT TO U.N. FILED; BIAS AGAINST HOLY SEE NOTED
On May 15, Bill Donohue lodged a formal complaint with Ms. Navanethem Pillay, High Commissioner for the Human Rights Office of the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland. Donohue charged that Felice Gaer, Vice–Chairperson of the Committee Against Torture, has compromised her objectivity and thus has no legitimate role to play in policing the policies of U.N. member [...]
SATANISTS AT HARVARD
On May 7, the Catholic League protested a scheduled "Black Mass" on the campus of Harvard University; the Satanic event, which was designed to ridicule the Mass, was set for May 12. But it was cancelled just hours before it was to take place. The initial response from the university was wholly unsatisfactory, but on the [...]
FREE SPEECH UNDER FIRE
William A. Donohue Over and over again, I have said that I would prefer to suffer the indignity of having my religion trashed before endorsing the right of the government to censor the offensive speech. Would there ever be an exception? Of course—no right is absolute. But in almost all cases, having the government silence the [...]
THE MEDIA, THE POPE, AND DISINFORMATION
Ronald J. Rychlak On March 22, 2014, Pope Francis received a group of Italian broadcasters at the Vatican. In an unscripted address, he defined the virtues, mission, and sins of the communication media. While encouraging the broadcasters to carry out their work along the paths of truth, goodness, and beauty, he also warned them about three [...]
THE POLITICS OF “JESUS’ WIFE”
In 2007, the media were agog over the claim by "Titanic" director James Cameron and TV-director Simcha Jacobovici that the Jesus family tomb had been found. Cameron declared that it had been determined "beyond any reasonable doubt" that the tomb of Jesus and his family had been found. It didn't take long before it was revealed [...]