Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks by Pope Francis that have been censored by the media: Pope Francis says gay couples cannot be considered a family. The media know he said this but, with few exceptions, they refused to run this story. The blackout, it is easy to prove, was intentional. On June 16, [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a coming Pennsylvania grand jury report: Pennsylvania authorities are about to release a grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse of minors in six Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses. Activists and media are predicting a "bombshell" report. What has really taken place is an anti-Catholic witch hunt. Why else would then-Attorney General Kathleen Kane [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the votes taken last night by a Virginia school board: The Fairfax County school board last night adopted a series of radical changes that had been proposed to its sex education curriculum—but only after unanimously passing amendments that restored clergy to its list of competent advisers. The original proposal [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Samantha Bee's problems with sponsors: On June 8, I issued a news release, "Verizon and P&G Asked to Drop Samantha Bee." We provided email addresses so our followers could contact both companies. A few hours later, we received a call from an official at Verizon indicating that the company [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on proposed changes by a Virginia school board district: The Fairfax County school board will vote June 14 on a series of proposed changes to the sex education curriculum. Elites in the Northern Virginia suburban community are weighing policy changes that are deeply disturbing, both from a moral and a [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest report on priestly sexual abuse: In 2004, two years after the priestly sexual abuse scandal broke in the media, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop released its first annual audit of this subject. We have been tracking this issue every year, noting the incredible progress, and [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the sponsors of the Samantha Bee TBS show, "Full Frontal": Newsbusters, the media monitoring arm of the Media Research Center, revealed last week that several sponsors of the Samantha Bee show of May 30—the one where she used the "c-word" to describe Ivanka Trump—did not post an advertisement on [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the results of a new Gallup poll on abortion: In a survey released June 11, Gallup found that a majority of Americans, 53%, say abortion should be legal in only a few circumstance (35%) or in no circumstances (18%). This means that most Americans reject abortion-on-demand, the effective ruling [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on last night's Tony Awards: A national writer for the Associated Press, Jocelyn Noveck, described the Tony Awards as an event "where tolerance and inclusion were constant themes." So this is what Robert De Niro was doing—exercising his "tolerance"—when he screamed "F*** Trump"? At least De Niro didn't threaten violence [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue wrote to the CEO of both Verizon and Procter & Gamble requesting them to discontinue advertising on Samantha Bee's TBS show, "Full Frontal." To read his letters, click here. If you want to support us in this effort, contact the following: James J. Gerace, Chief Communications Officer, Verizon: james.gerace@verizon.com Javier Polit, [...]