Catholic League president Bill Donohue offers qualified support for the Obama administration's decision to promote the sale of fresh Christmas trees by imposing a 15-cent tax on them (the tax is being levied to pay for a PR campaign): President Barack Obama's Agriculture Department got it right when it started to explore new ways to prop [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: Yesterday, the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) held a press conference in front of the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph to bring attention to a case involving an Episcopal priest, Bede Parry, who is being charged with [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: This is surreal. The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States, Katharine Jefferts Schori, knew about the sexual abuse activities of a homosexual candidate for the Episcopal priesthood, did nothing about it, and indeed allowed him to become a priest. Today, the Survivors Network of [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: Over the weekend, news broke that a former Penn State football coach, serving under head coach Joe Paterno, was involved in alleged sexual abuse of young boys. Although Paterno immediately notified the Athletic Director, he did not call the cops. David Clohessy, the director of the Survivors Network [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) announces the latest lawsuit against the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. The diocese, headed by Bishop Robert Finn, knows nothing about it. But attorney Rebecca Randles does: she coordinated the attack with SNAP. Virtually all the cases date back [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue describes the highlights of the new movie, "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas," which opened today: One of the lead actors punches a bishop Naked nuns are shown caressing each other in a shower Real life homosexual Neil Patrick Harris (playing himself) recounts going to heaven (portrayed as a nightclub) [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest circulation figures of the Kansas City Star (the numbers are cited today by the Kansas City blog site JimmyCsays, and are taken from the Audit Bureau of Circulation): The Star is in free fall: for the first time since before World War II, its daily circulation has [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: Respectable newspapers are expected to be objective, and not become the voice box of activist organizations. This is not true of the Kansas City Star; its relationship with SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) is incestuous. To take the latest example, on November 1, Judge James [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: The SNAP-Star alliance against Kansas City-St. Joseph Bishop Robert Finn is a natural: both are anti-Catholic. As evidence of SNAP's bigotry, click here to read our report on its July conference. As for the Star, consider its infamous 1999 "survey" of priests. Twelve years ago, the Star did [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: In September, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ended funding to a program operated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) that helps victims of human trafficking. Their decision followed a lawsuit by the ACLU contesting the right of the USCCB not [...]
