In the News

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Bill In The News (Springfield News-Leader): A group of U.S. Catholics wants all 50 states to investigate public schools for sexual abuse of minors, according to an open letter by the group's president made public Wednesday morning. In his letter to state attorneys general, William Donohue with the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights wrote that the recent [...]

Bill In The News (Essex Caller): Some Catholic Church defenders, such as Catholic League President Bill Donohue, have insisted throughout the scandal that church reforms are working. “No entity in America today, private or public, has more institutionalized mechanisms in place to check for the sexual abuse of minors than the Catholic Church,” Donohue said. He [...]

Bill In The News (Daily Gazette): Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger of the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese has invited Albany District Attorney David Soares to review the diocese's records on sex abuse cases. The letter from Scharfenberger came out on the same day state Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood announced her office has established a hotline and online complaint [...]

Bill In The News (Staten Island Advance): The president of the Catholic League accused New York's attorney general of discrimination in a harshly-worded letter Thursday, questioning the fairness of subpoenaing only Catholics as part of the new civil investigation into sexual abuse charges. "Your decision to launch a grand jury investigation of Catholic diocese - to [...]

Bill In The News (Newsday): William Donohue, president of the Manhattan-based Catholic League, said Underwood was singling out the Catholic Church and not investigating other institutions. The move "is manifestly unjust and indefensible," Donohue said in a letter to Underwood. "Are you saying that the sexual abuse of minors is peculiar to Catholic institutions?" READ MORE HERE

Bill In The News (The New American): William Donohue, a noted authority on clerical sexual abuse who leads the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, pointed out that "prior to 1985, it was the parents of the abused who reported molestation." Since then, most accusations come from adults who say they were abused as children. Along with the rise [...]

Bill In The News (CNS News): As documented in the John Jay Report on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church from 1950 to 2002, less than 5% of the predators were pedophiles. In fact, 81% of the victims were male and 78% were post-pubescent, "meaning that homosexuality -- not heterosexuality or pedophilia -- was in play," said Catholic League [...]

Bill In The News (Irish Post): A Leading Catholic civil rights organisation has hit out at the media coverage of the Pennsylvania grand jury's report detailing hundreds of alleged cases of Catholic Church leaders sexually abusing children. Bill Donohue, the president of the Catholic League, released a statement criticising the "moral panic" surrounding the Church. READ MORE HERE [...]

Bill In The News (Breitbart): More than 700 educators and Catholic lay leaders have written an open letter urging the United States bishops to tender their collective resignation to Pope Francis in the wake of a string of scandals related to clerical sex abuse. The letter references a recent Pennsylvania grand jury report that alleges not only clerical [...]