Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks made by Pope Francis in Chile: "The day someone brings me proof against Bishop Barros, then I will talk," Pope Francis told the media. "But there is not one single piece of evidence. It is all slander. Is that clear?" The pope was referring to charges that Chilean [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the March for Life and the social justice agenda: There is no annual demonstration that draws more Catholics than the March for Life. The turnout is so impressive—the media typically underplay its success—that it has become the envy of social justice Catholics, those whose primary commitment is to fighting [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a new film about the abortion movement: Alveda King, niece of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is an executive producer of a new movie, "Roe v. Wade," that chronicles the origins of the abortion movement in the United States. From the racist views of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on two stories in the New York Times that malign the Catholic Church in Ireland: Newspapers are supposed to report news, but when they don't—when they recycle old news—it calls into question the motive. That's what the New York Times did recently. On January 14 and January 16, it ran [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on recent remarks made by Russian president Vladimir Putin: Russian president Vladimir Putin is making some waves with his recent statement equating communism to Christianity. He said that "communist ideology is very similar to Christianity," crediting Soviet communism for preaching "freedom, brotherhood, equality." Though he admitted that religious persecution took [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a report that made recommendations on what to do about certain New York City monuments: The New York City commission empowered to assess the propriety of having controversial monuments, statues, and markers on public lands has issued its report: all of the tributes, save one, will remain where they [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses last night's episode of "Young Sheldon" on CBS: The January 11 episode of the CBS show, "Young Sheldon," mildly lambasted Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Protestantism (Baptists), Zoroastrianism, the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, and Taoism. It made an exception for two religions: it made a frontal assault on Catholicism, trashing [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on why the New York Times changed its policy on obscenities: In the first paragraph of today's lead front-page story in the New York Times, it says that President Trump referred to "people from Haiti and some nations in Africa" as "s***hole countries." Note: the asterisks are mine—the Times spelled [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the reaction to a Vatican initiative inviting the poor to attend a circus: A Vatican office invited 2,100 poor persons, including the homeless, children from needy families, prisoners, and refugees, to a circus on the outskirts of Rome. Today's event did not go off without controversy. "People who perform [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Hollywood's #MeToo movement: All the Hollywood gals, and many of the guys, are desperate to show how protective they are of women being exploited by men, but few of them mean it. If they did, they wouldn't continue to make shows and movies that debase women. Hollywood literally created [...]
