Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest news regarding the attempt to break the seal of the confessional: On May 16, the California Senate Appropriations Committee conducted a hearing on a bill by State Sen. Jerry Hill, SB 360, that would gut the seal of confession, all in the name of catching sexual molesters [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on two attacks on the Catholic Church that occurred over the weekend: In a time when calls for civility are everywhere noted, there has been a surge in the most obscene attacks on Catholicism. The kind of filth that Bill Maher engaged in on his Friday night HBO show was [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on who is supporting the latest attack on religious liberty The Equality Act, as I recently stated, "is the most comprehensive assault on religious liberty, the right to life, and privacy rights ever packaged into one bill in the history of the United States." I enumerated twelve reasons why it [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on how the media are covering a supporter of infanticide: Infanticide is the deliberate killing of infants, either by active or passive measures. In Nazi Germany, they preferred the former; in this country, we prefer the latter. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it is okay to allow a baby [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a California bill that threatens religious liberty: Lawyers have attorney-client privileges, journalists are allowed to keep their sources confidential, and priests have "penitential communication" privileges. In all three cases, it has long been deemed necessary to afford these rights lest injustice prevails. But now the latter right is under [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the Equality Act: The Equality Act is the most comprehensive assault on religious liberty, the right to life, and privacy rights ever packaged into one bill in the history of the United States. It passed the House Judiciary Committee last week and is scheduled for a vote this week, [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Vice President Mike Pence's speech at Liberty University: On May 11, Vice President Mike Pence spoke at Liberty University's Commencement, offering a stirring address. "The truth is," he said, "we live in a time when the freedom of religion is under assault." He cited a report detailing how Christians [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in Saturday's Washington Post on reforms released by the Vatican: It would be hard to find a more wrongheaded editorial on the recently released Vatican reforms on clergy sexual abuse than was published May 11 by the Washington Post. "The essential problem" of clergy sexual abuse, the [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on new sexual abuse reforms announced by the Vatican: After much delay, the Vatican has finally set forth reforms to combat clergy sexual abuse. Fortunately, they are comprehensive and meaningful. Due to widely different cultural practices, reforms are not easy to craft for global institutions. Those who wrote these strictures [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Seth Meyers' latest attack on the Catholic Church: In his NBC-TV show last night, Seth Meyers told viewers that "Pope Francis has announced new rules designed to change how the Catholic Church deals with abuse accusations, and not 2,000 years too soon." This guy lives in a bubble. There [...]
