Bill Donohue comments on Catholic politicians and their religion: The media are awash with stories on the tension between Catholic GOP presidential candidates and their fidelity to Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment. It is a story worth exploring. But an even juicier story is the decades-long rejection of papal authority by Catholic Democrats in Washington [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a proposed abuse bill in New York State: Every year New York Assemblywoman Margaret Markey introduces her bill lifting the statute of limitations on childhood sexual abuse, and every year she loses. The word is out: she's a phony. Her bills almost always give public school employees a pass (the doctrine of [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the resignation of St. Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt: Both the New York Times and AP reported today that Archbishop Nienstedt protected a pedophile priest, Curtis Wehmeyer. But Wehmeyer is not a pedophile: as with almost all molesting priests—more than 80 percent of them—he is a homosexual. In 2010, Wehmeyer molested [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Catholic-bashing remarks made on nighttime TV over the past week: On June 6, Showtime ran a rerun of an earlier "HAPPYish" show that featured Ellen Barkin saying that Jesus and Lazarus were lovers. To which Bradley Whitford replied, "I thought it was Judas who f***ed Jesus." On June 7, John Oliver spoke [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the reaction to Tuesday's Fifth Circuit decision upholding a Texas law that protects women's health: The federal appeals panel ruled that it was a "legitimate purpose" of the Texas law "to provide the highest quality of care to women seeking abortions and to protect the health and welfare of women seeking abortions." [...]
Bill Donohue comments on how the media are distorting a comment made by Jeb Bush about unwed mothers: The following media outlets have inaccurately reported a comment made by Jeb Bush in his 1995 book, Profiles in Character: Huffington Post; Gawker; USA Today; Buzzfeed; Black Business Now; U.S. News and World Report; Opposing Views; Ring of [...]
Bill Donohue comments on remarks made yesterday by Pope Francis to the bishops of Puerto Rico: Is Bruce Jenner on the pope's mind? It seems that way. Why else would he attack gender ideology in a speech that had nothing to do with the thesis of his address? As I pointed out last week, Pope Francis [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Hillary Clinton's presidential launch on June 13 from Roosevelt Island: Hillary's official campaign begins in the Four Freedoms park on Roosevelt Island. Look for her to invoke FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech in her address, referencing his support for "freedom to worship." The term fits with her agenda: "freedom to worship" implies a [...]
Bill Donohue comments on remarks made by Bill Maher on his Friday night show on HBO: Maher says Christians have no basis to complain about being defamed or discriminated against because they constitute a majority of the nation. "Seventy percent of the country is Christian, not to mention every president we've ever had," he said. He [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the latest attack on the Duggar family: Sarah Palin, and her daughter Bristol, have rightly slammed the mainstream media for bashing the Duggars as hypocrites while continuing to laud Lena Dunham, the celebrity who sexually molested her own sister. But it's not just the secular media that are guilty of rank duplicity—it's [...]
