Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a Tulsa priest who has been exonerated: On December 3, the Associated Press (AP) ran a story on a Tulsa priest who was allowed to return to work after an internal investigation found that an allegation of sexual abuse against him was unsubstantiated. Many of those media outlets and [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on how religion haters are celebrating Christmas: Americans United for Separation of Church and State (Americans United) was founded as an expressly anti-Catholic organization after World War II. Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is an atheist religion-hating organization that considers abortion to be a "blessing." Both are seeking to cash [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Nancy Pelosi's response to a reporter's question: As House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi was leaving her press conference today, reporter James Rosen asked her, "Do you hate the president, Madame Speaker?" Pelosi was livid. She spun around and, pointing at Rosen, said, "I was raised in a Catholic house. [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the results of a new Pew Research Center survey on the faithful and their clergy: The clergy have great sway over the faithful on religious, family, and life issues, but much less so on matters that are outside their expertise. That is the central finding of the latest Pew [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the recent wave of lawsuits against the Catholic Church: Church-suing lawyers are celebrating the holidays with a boatload of new cases, all in the name of justice. In reality, more injustice than justice will be rendered. The steeple-chasers are jumping on the bandwagon effect of the Pennsylvania grand jury [...]
Bill In The News (CBN News): The foundation set up by new Democrat presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has been donating millions of dollars to the nation’s leading abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. In a recent column at Newsmax, Catholic activist Bill Donohue called Bloomberg “one of the most radical pro-abortion politicians in American history.” READ MORE HERE
Bill In The News (AP): AP interviews with more than a dozen lawyers and clergy abuse watchdog groups offered a wide range of estimates but many said they expected at least 5,000 new cases against the church in New York, New Jersey and California alone, resulting in potential payouts that could surpass the $4 billion paid [...]
Next month, the American Civil Liberties Union will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Bill Donohue has written a Ph.D. dissertation on the ACLU as well as two books: The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union (with a preface by Aaron Wildavsky) and Twilight of Liberty: The Legacy of the ACLU. The former was published in 1985 [...]
Bill In The News (ConservativeHQ): As soon as former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg entered the race for President as a “moderate” Democrat he began to abandon any pretense of being a moderate, even going so far as to disavow his one apparent success; continuing his predecessor Rudy Giuliani’s stop and frisk crime prevention program. But [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a CNN story on the Catholic Church: In the more than 26 years I have spent at the Catholic League, never have I read a more irresponsible, and just plain dumb, report on clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church until I read the CNN Interactive report, "Pedophile Priests [...]