Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) Catholic? She was, but there is no evidence she still is. Yet she is conveniently labeled as a Catholic by some of her supporters and she occasionally implies she is still Catholic. Why does this matter? If she were not a [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Michael Bloomberg's treatment of female employees: In the South Carolina presidential debate, Senator Elizabeth Warren commented that when she was a special-education teacher she was happy not to have a boss like Michael Bloomberg. She recounted how he allegedly said to one of his pregnant employees, "Kill It!" Bloomberg [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a new survey of Catholics: The recently released survey of Catholic registered voters conducted by Real Clear Politics for EWTN has some fascinating data, but it also raises serious questions about its design. When asked which party the respondent belongs to, 45% said they were Democrats and 34% said [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an important case that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear: We may not know the outcome until the spring of 2021, but it looms as one of the most important cases pitting gay rights against religious liberty that the U.S. Supreme Court has ever agreed to hear. Two [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a Senate vote scheduled for tomorrow: On February 25, the U.S. Senate will vote on a bill by Sen. Ben Sasse, the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act." The Act was passed in 2002 but it did not provide specific sanctions for abortionists who intentionally allowed innocent babies to die [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks made by an Episcopal bishop from Olympia, Washington: We would not defend a Catholic bishop who publicly criticized a decision by a high-ranking cleric of another religion about matters that pertain only to the members of that religion. We respect house rules. It's too bad that Greg Rickel, [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the decision of the Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to declare bankruptcy: In 2018, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro unethically released a grand jury report on Catholic priests and lay people who were accused of sexually abusing minors decades ago—most were never found guilty and some successfully contested the public [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a controversy that has embroiled a Catholic school in Washington state: Two teachers at Kennedy Catholic High School, located in the Seattle area, recently resigned, and although neither school authorities, the Archdiocese of Seattle nor the teachers are speaking to the media, it is understood that both teachers, a [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in today's Orlando Sentinel: The editorial in the February 18 Orlando Sentinel is critical of private schools, mostly Christian, which participate in a state-school voucher program; the schools uphold biblical teachings on homosexuality. The newspaper says they should not qualify for the program because they discriminate against [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: There is an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal that deserves a huge audience, and that is why we have provided a link to it. Two biology professors make it crystal clear that sex is binary—we are either male or female. There is no third sex. It's time [...]
