Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a court ruling in Pennsylvania yesterday: On December 3, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in a 6-1 decision that the Pennsylvania grand jury report on the Catholic clergy cannot make public the names of 11 priests who challenged the release of their identities; they claimed that doing so would [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Pope Francis and the mainstream media: When it comes to reporting what Pope Francis says about sexuality, the reaction of the mainstream media is stunning. Whenever he says something they consider ill-liberal, they simply don't report it. The cover-up continued this weekend when excerpts from a new book by [...]
Bill In the News (Bloomberg Law): A political dispute over LGBT and religious rights is threatening to handcuff the Trump administration agency that enforces harassment and discrimination law in the midst of the #MeToo era. At the center of the debate is Chai Feldblum (D), the EEOC’s first openly gay commissioner. “She has an animus against the First [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the death of Thomas Altizer: God isn't dead, but the author who famously declared He is is. Thomas Altizer passed away last week, though few people took note of it. He was the subject of the April 8, 1966 cover story of Time magazine. The black background and bold [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks made by David Hickton: Whenever someone generalizes from the individual to the collective (of a negative nature)—making sweeping statements indicting an entire class of people—it is rightly condemned. Well, not always. This is certainly true of most races, religions, ethnic groups, and sexual orientations, but it is definitely [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on agents who raided the office of Cardinal DiNardo: When law enforcement agents act like bullies, justice is sundered. That's what happened last month in Michigan when the police raided all seven Catholic dioceses—including the home of one bishop—in search of evidence of sexual abuse by the clergy. It happened [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an important date in the Pennsylvania grand jury issue: Kathleen Kane is finally going to jail today. The former Pennsylvania Attorney General was convicted more than two years ago on nine counts. She not only perjured herself, she was found guilty of obstruction of justice and abuse of office. [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses an obituary on Bishop Robert Morlino: The obituary in the Wisconsin State Journal on Bishop Robert Morlino, who led the Diocese of Madison, reeks of politics. He died on November 24 at the age of 71. The reader gets a sense of the narrative about to be weaved by the [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue contacted the mayor of Highlands, North Carolina today about a Christmas display on town property. To read his letter click here.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on media treatment of Cardinal Daniel DiNardo: There have been hundreds of media stories on Cardinal Daniel DiNardo in the month of November, and many were critical. He is the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The treatment was often unfair, and leading [...]