On the July 11 episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," Maher discussed the Hobby Lobby case that the U.S. Supreme Court recently decided. Here is an excerpt: • "...but the five Catholic men on the Supreme Court agreed with Hobby Lobby that those women who have pleasure sex should be saddled with a baby." • [...]
Here is what Joan Rivers and Bill Maher had to say on recent episodes of their television shows: Rivers: "First of all, let me just say, Kid Rock, when did he audition to play Jesus Christ Super Pimp?" Maher: "The pope is a pimp. I'm serious." Bill Donohue is not sure who is watching Joan Rivers [...]
A new sitcom on FX starring Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence sounded like it could be promising, but the first episode of "Partners" that recently aired proved to be little more than a bigoted attack on priests and the Catholic Church. Even the New York Times called the show "painful" and said "the proceedings mostly make [...]
A few weeks ago, the premiere episode of "Black Jesus," aired on the Cartoon Network. The Catholic League has long taken the position that portraying Jesus as black is fine with the Catholic League, and indeed we find it silly that anyone would object. The Jesus character in this show is a mixed bag: He is [...]
"Doubtless" is a play by Albert Innaurato that was performed in New York City. It started August 4 and it closed August 30. It was easy to ignore—the theatre had 98 seats—but given that Innaurato has solid credentials, we decided to address his latest attack on the Catholic Church. The play's name is a rip-off of [...]
There are those on the right and the left who have misrepresented what the pope has said about the immigration crisis. Understandably, those on both sides of this issue are unhappy with the pope's comments, but that is no excuse for distorting them. It may not please those on the right to learn that the pope [...]
The New York City Health Department, New York State Department of Health, and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation recently announced that they are launching a new initiative to increase access to contraception "immediately after childbirth." The anti-child mentality that marks Western nations has now been taken to a new level in New York [...]
The Catholic Church's just-war doctrine allows for a military response to grave conflicts, provided that several criteria are operative. The Vatican has made it clear that the mass murder being committed by Islamic State terrorists meets that standard. No one has been more pointed than Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United [...]
