On March 19, two days after New York's St. Patrick's Day parade, Bill Donohue asked officials at the Heritage of Pride parade, New York's annual gay march, if he could enter with his own unit, "Straight is Great." Donohue's gambit was a ploy: gays had objected to the house rules of the St. Patrick's Day parade [...]
The April edition of "The Limbaugh Letter" features an extensive interview with Bill Donohue. Here is an excerpt. The complete version is available on our website; see the "Special Reports" section. Rush: Dr. Donohue, this is great. I have wanted to talk to you for the longest time, and I'm really appreciative that you've been able [...]
Data was recently published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops that was collected by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. The annual report by CARA on sexual abuse allegations confirms what we have known for a long time: the Church is largely free of this problem. A total of ten credible accusations [...]
Former President Jimmy Carter recently made the rounds on CNN, championing women's rights and criticizing the Catholic Church. Perhaps some gutsy reporter will ask him about his own record. Carter has been a volunteer and supporter for Habitat for Humanity since 1984. Habitat was founded by Millard Fuller in 1976. In April 1991, Fuller was forced [...]
On March 22, NPR flagged this comment by Jimmy Carter: "The fact that the Catholic Church, for instance, prohibits women from serving as priests or even deacons gives a kind of a permission to male people all over the world, that well, if God thinks that women are inferior, I'll treat them as inferiors. If she [...]
A new program called "Greatest Mysteries: Vatican" recently premiered on the Travel Channel. Lies about Catholicism abound, and the intentional distortion of the truth is also commonplace. We're used to it at the Catholic League. But there are times when the source astounds us. This happened recently when John Mulvey, a policy analyst, watched the recklessly [...]
"Unsealed: Alien Files," is a television show that recently aired on the Science Channel. The program speculates that "new evidence may prove the Vatican is hiding actual aliens from the public." Either that or the channel will rename itself the Sci-fi Channel. The priest who directs the Vatican observatory, Dr. Jose Funes, was interviewed for the [...]
A new TV series will soon air about a fictional American pope, His Holiness Pope Lenny. Paolo Sorrentino, the Italian director who won an Oscar for best foreign film, "The Great Beauty," is planning a TV series about the Vatican. According to Religion News Service, it will be about a "scandal-rife Vatican." Imagine that—viewers will be [...]
Bill Donohue received a sincere letter of thanks from Sr. Mary McManus of the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Blackrock, Cork. Her letter was a testimony of the gratefulness expressed by all the sisters at the convent for our work in debunking the film "Philomena." She expressly thanked us for defending [...]
In 2012, Karen L. King presented a small piece of papyrus with an inscription that indicated Jesus had a wife: "Jesus said to them, 'My wife....'" She was ecstatic, as were many in the media. It has now been determined by some scientists that the fragment, the size of a credit card, is likely of ancient [...]
