Bill Donohue was asked by the celebrity page of the New York Post on September 10 to offer a comment on a new book, 101 Places To Have Sex Before You Die; one of the recommended places is the confessional. Here was Bill’s response to "Page Six": “The kind of people who would have sex in the confessional would also have sex [...]
The lead letter in the September 9, 2008 New York Times states that there are troubling similarities between Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and President George W. Bush. What is the writer's first listed objection? It is the fact that both leaders are "deeply religious."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accepted the invitation from San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer to discuss her recent statements concerning the Catholic Church's position on abortion as it relates to the question of when life begins. He invited her to meet with him privately so he can explain the Church's clear teachings to her. It is not yet [...]
In the September 8 New York Times, there is a story about the continuing conflict between NBC and MSNBC over news reporting and analysis. While several NBC employees spoke to Times reporters, all did so anonymously. That’s because “the network does not permit it [sic] people to speak to the media without authorization.” Now if a bishop were to [...]
The student senate of the University of Central Florida (UCF) finally delivered justice to Webster Cook, who earlier this summer took home the Eucharist before returning it a week later in an attempt to make a political statement. After impeaching Cook for his misconduct, the senate voted to remove him from office after a lengthy investigation into his [...]
The Democratic National Convention is awash in sexuality. On Monday, there was a “Sex, Politics and Cocktails” party hosted by Planned Parenthood that, naturally, passed out tons of condoms. It got a lot of competition from a Rolling Stone-Trojan Condoms bash that featured a “Condomvention” on sexual health; it was held right near their inflatable penis-shaped [...]
Some of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's fellow congressmen, who are pro-life and Catholic, have responded to her statements about the Catholic Church's teachings concerning when life begins. Please click here to read their correspondence to her.
The Catholic League will be sending out copies of the report, Islam in the Classroom: What the Textbooks Tell Us, to Catholic educators and bishops. Please click here to read an article by the author of the report, Gilbert T. Sewall of the American Textbook Council, that was published in the New York Post. Please click here to access Mr. Sewall's full report on how Islam [...]
Timothy Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics, is rightfully upset about the movie “Tropic Thunder.” The film offers a stereotypical portrayal of the mentally retarded and callously refers to them as “retards.” So what does Shriver want to do? “Ban the movie,” he says. “Ban the movie”? Just imagine if the Catholic League said that about [...]
The University of Central Florida convened a panel of students and administrators to address whether Webster Cook, the student who absconded with the Host and then returned It a week later, violated the code of student discipline. The panel voted unanimously to dismiss all the charges against him despite the range of options available to punish this despicable act. At [...]
