Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest controversy enveloping Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is a disaster. She can't seem to shake charges of bigotry. Worse, she has no problem condemning bigotry when the victims are non-Catholics. Not to worry, Catholics are taking note of her selective interest in [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on recent remarks made by Pope Francis: Pope Francis had a busy Sunday, offering interviews aboard the papal plane and to Spanish television. As the media are wont to do, much of the conversation centered on their favorite topic: sex. Referring to the sexual abuse of minors, the pope said, [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on new state abortion laws: There is a wave of new state abortion laws being introduced, or already passed, that reflect how divided the nation is on the subject. Most are quite restrictive but some are quite liberal. Three abortion bills recently passed legislative committees in Texas, and have been [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on media reaction to the movie "Unplanned": "Unplanned" is a movie that chronicles the workplace experience of Abby Johnson; she was employed by a Planned Parenthood clinic. One day, after spending eight years on the job, she was asked, as the clinic director, to assist a doctor to perform an [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a pro-gay film opening in Cincinnati that attacks the Catholic Church: Those who teach at Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim elementary and secondary schools are expected to abide by the teachings of the three respective religions. Moreover, the parents who pay for their children to attend such schools expect that [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a blatant double standard: The media insist that when a priest is suspected of wrongdoing, Catholic bishops must turn over every last item found in the priest's personnel file. Nothing is to be sealed, and full public disclosure is demanded. But reporters, editorial writers, and pundits don't hold everyone [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks made last night by Trevor Noah on "The Daily Show": Trevor Noah has a problem. He is fixated on priests. He hates them. That is why he can't stop making offensive generalizations about them. On his March 26 Comedy Central show, Noah once again flashed his bigotry when [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest attacks on Catholic organizations: We were told that once the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed marriage between two people of the same sex that it wouldn't create new problems for religious institutions. It was a lie. In its wake has come a rash of lawsuits aimed at Catholic [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's attack on religious freedom: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is keeping her campaign promise to put her radical agenda ahead of the best interests of children. In 2015, Michigan's legislature passed a law to protect the religious freedom of faith-based foster care and adoption [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue assesses a report on alleged sexual abusers in the Illinois dioceses that was released on March 20: There are many news stories about the 395 priests in Illinois who have been named in a report on clergy sexual abuse, but most of them are incomplete. For starters, not all of those [...]