Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: Tomorrow there will be a day-long symposium in Baltimore held by practitioners in the field of mental health who will make the case that society unfairly stigmatizes "Minor-Attracted Persons," a.k.a. adults who are sexually attracted to kids. Run by a non-profit group, B4U-ACT, psychiatrists and others from [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in today's Daily News on New York City's new sex-education program: The Daily News is so ecstatic about the new mandatory sex-education curriculum that it titles its editorial, "Go All the Way on Sex Ed." It notes that the curriculum, "Reducing the Risk," has worked in [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the news that New York City public schools will require all middle and high school students to take sex-education classes this fall: We've had de facto sex-education in New York City for decades—that's how long we've been shelling out condoms to students. And what has it gotten us? [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on critics of World Youth Day: Next week, a crowd of roughly one million will gather in Madrid for World Youth Day. Pilgrims, mostly teenagers, will arrive on August 15 for one week; the pope will arrive on August 18 and close the proceedings on August 21. Against the backdrop [...]
"Having Standard & Poor's downgrade the creditworthiness of the U.S., and warn the country about further downgrades, is a little like having the Catholic Church lecture Scout leaders on the proper behavior toward boys." The above quote was the first sentence in an article published online today at the curiouscapitalist blog by Bill Saporito, assistant [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on how the Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests (SNAP) stands by its friends who have been convicted on child pornography charges: Dr. Steve Taylor is a psychiatrist who is sitting in a Louisiana jail awaiting transfer to a state prison. He pleaded guilty last April to 23 [...]
The U.S. Air Force has suspended a class at Vandenberg Air Force Base after complaints that it violates church and state. Bill Donohue responded with this letter to Gen. Edward A. Rice, Jr., the Commander of Air Education and Training: I have a three-fold interest in writing to you about the decision to suspend the "Christian [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the reaction of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) to the news that an elderly New York priest was arrested for a sexual infraction: A 16-year-old girl started working in a Bronx parish last Saturday and now claims she was inappropriately touched by an 87-year-old priest. [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses the dilemma that the Obama administration has created for religious employers: Yesterday, the Obama administration mandated that all health insurance plans cover contraceptives and sterilization for women, though it made an exception for religious employers. But did it? Not really. To wit: a religious employer is defined, in part, as [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a news article in yesterday's New York Times on the Catholic Church: A priest, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, decides to break with the Catholic Church's teachings on ordination and "ordains" a woman in an illicit ceremony. He is given three years to recant, but he refuses, and is now threatened with excommunication. [...]
