Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the resignation of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer championed women's rights, even as he paid for prostitutes behind his wife's back. New York Congressman Anthony Weiner championed women's rights, even as he used his 5-year-old son as a "chick magnet" to lure minors [...]
May 5th marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. Those who celebrate Marx ignore his legacy of genocide. As Solzhenitsyn said, Stalin didn't pervert Marxism, he perfected it.
Bill In the News (Journal Times, Racine WI): A Catholic organization is asking House Speaker Paul Ryan’s chief of staff to step down, alleging that he sent the House chaplain an email containing an anti-Catholic remark. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights said in a statement issued Friday that House Chaplain Rev. Patrick J. [...]
Bill In the News (The Hill): A top Catholic civil rights group has called for Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) chief of staff to resign for allegedly making anti-Catholic remarks to the House chaplain when conveying Ryan's request for his resignation. "It's time Ryan found himself a new chief of staff. Anti-Catholic bigotry cannot be tolerated anywhere, and [...]
Bill In the News (CNN): One of the nation's leading Catholic civil rights groups is calling for House Speaker Paul Ryan's chief of staff to resign after he allegedly made anti-Catholic comments to the House chaplain in April. Catholic League president Bill Donohue referenced in a statement remarks the Rev. Pat Conroy made in a letter [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a controversial California bill: There are many moral, legal, and professional issues involved in a California bill, AB 2943, which seeks to amend the state's consumer fraud laws by banning gay and transgender conversion therapy. Whether such therapy works or not, or is morally defensible, may not be as [...]
Bill In the News (These Stone Walls): The Catholic League is a lone vindicator on the front lines of the culture wars. Its mission is to defend your Catholic voice in the public square, and mine too. At a time when so many Catholic public figures were recoiling from and reacting to the sexual abuse crisis [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the legacy of Karl Marx: May 5th marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. He is being celebrated by those who are horrified by Hitler, which makes their opposition to genocide phony. What Marx bequeathed—his legacy is written in blood—makes Hitler look benign. This is why [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the House Chaplain controversy: "No one is better suited to step into this role [as chief of staff] than Jonathan Burks," said Rep. Paul Ryan in December 2016. "Simply put, he can do it all...[T]here's never been a job I couldn't throw at him." Wrong. Ryan threw the job [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a new congressional association: A congressional club for atheists? Yes, one was founded this week, but it did not get off to a roaring start: Of the 535 members of Congress, we can count on one hand how many members there are: four. There are probably more left-handed vegans [...]