Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest attack on the pope by the New York Times: Once upon a time there was a homosexual priest who was accused of molesting boys in Germany. That was 30 years ago. At the approval of Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger (now the pope), he was sent away for therapy [...]
On the front page of the "Week in Review" section of Sunday's New York Times, there was a piece on health care titled, "Is Failure Forgivable?" Accompanying the article was a photo of President Obama in shirt sleeves with his finger pointed upwards. Superimposed in the background was an illustration that showed an illuminated cross; a [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue takes on the New York Times: On March 10, the New York Times ran an article on sex abuse in the Catholic Church stating that in Austria a priest abused a boy 40 years ago. Yesterday, readers learned of a German case where a man says he was abused in 1979. [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue weighs in on the flap over Glenn Beck's comment that people should leave their church if it is promoting "social justice": Glenn Beck has been slammed all week for his flip remark, and some have accused him of being anti-Christian. Let's examine what he said. Beck said that "social justice" and [...]
Mary Pollock, legislative vice president of the Michigan chapter of the Nation& Organization for Women, yesterday accused Rep. Bart Stupak, a Catholic, of imposing his religious beliefs on the nation. “It is outrageous and un-American,” Pollock said of the pro-life congressman. Commenting on this remark is Bill Donohue of the Catholic League: Smear words have been [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: No, this is not a news release about Rahm Emanuel, though it could have been. After all, he is the pro-abortion Jew who is working quietly to shape the health bill. But I wouldn't have characterized his lobbying that way. Why? Because to do so would have smacked [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue calls into question media coverage of Muslim violence against Christians in Nigeria: According to The Australian, “dozens of bodies lined the streets” of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria. “Other victims of the weekend’s Muslim fury jammed a local morgue, the limbs of slaughtered children tangled in a grotesque mess.” Children [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue offers several examples of media bias drawn from today’s newspapers: Orthodox Rabbi Baruch Lebovits was found guilty yesterday on eight counts of sexually abusing a 16-year old boy in Brooklyn. When a Catholic priest is accused of embezzlement—never mind sexual abuse—it typically merits a front-page story in the New York Daily [...]
A bill in the Kansas House of Representatives that was initially introduced to repeal the sales tax exemption of all non-profit organizations was recently amended to target only religious non-profits. The bill, which will be debated next week, would penalize the Catholic Church and organizations like Catholic Charities, as well as other religions and charitable groups. [...]
After failing to win approval to head the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department last year, Dawn Johnsen was renominated by President Obama this year. Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved her; her nomination will now go before the full Senate. Catholic League president Bill Donohue reacted this way: In the minds of many, [...]
