Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a new report on Christian persecution: All across the nation, students are learning about genocide committed in the twentieth century, yet most know next to nothing about genocide taking place right now. That's partly because the victims are Christians: many academics and journalists have become accustomed to seeing Christians [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on two new surveys on religion and morality: A survey by Statista reveals that in Belgium 68 percent of the people believe that religion does more harm than good: Germany, Spain, Australia, Sweden, and Great Britain all top 60 percent. No nation disagrees with this conclusion more than Japan; only [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Woody Allen's words of caution in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal: Jeffrey Katzenberg is right to observe that "There's a pack of wolves" in Hollywood. They must be gotten. But in the quest for justice, it is important not to proceed at a gallop pace lest we [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Dan Brown's recent remarks about God: The Catholic League took great exception to Dan Brown's previous books, but we are giving him a pass on his latest volume, Origin. That's because he has apparently learned his lesson: unlike The Da Vinci Code, and to a lesser extent Angels & [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on California Governor Jerry Brown's veto of a bill targeting religious employers: On Sunday, Gov. Brown vetoed AB 569, a bill that the Catholic League opposed as "a blatant assault on religious freedom." As I wrote to every member of the California State Senate in August, "Under the guise of [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the media reaction to an Indiana Catholic school's dress code: Catholic schools have a dress code. Yeshivas have a dress code. Many Muslim schools have a dress code. Why is it that Jewish and Muslim dress codes never seem to infuriate the media, but Catholic ones drive them crazy? [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in today's New York Times: A week ago today, we published a critical statement on the failure of the New York Times to issue an editorial condemning the decision by the Guggenheim Museum to censor three artworks from an exhibition that opened on October 6. The museum [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a federal court ruling upholding prayer invocations in Congress: The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a militant atheist organization, lost in its bid to offer a non-prayer invocation on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. The House begins each legislative day with a prayer—"a practice," U.S. District [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses the larger issues attendant to Harvey Weinstein's fall from stardom: Revelations about Harvey Weinstein's predatory behavior should inspire others in Hollywood to come forward. We have known for decades that Hollywood is infested with sexually abusing men in senior positions, but there has been a reluctance to come forward. Weinstein [...]
Bill Donohue and Harvey Weinstein have been locking horns for over two decades. The following is a summary of Weinstein's Catholic-bashing films (it is taken from a previous news release). It is worth reading it again in light of recent news stories about his philandering. We now know that Weinstein abused women even as he championed [...]
