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Bill Donohue pulls the wool off of Faithful America: An independent Catholic school in the Philadelphia area decided that it could no longer employ its director of religious education because she refuses to abide by the teachings of the Church. Seems like a simple case. Yet a protest has been lodged against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the way people are responding to coronavirus: Religion is playing a prominent role in our responses to the health crisis. Bible app downloads are spiking and the Bible on Google Play and App Store has been installed two million times; hardcover editions of the Bible have also skyrocketed. A [...]
Media Response to John Jay Report On May 18, we addressed what the media said about the 2011 John Jay Report on the “Causes and Context” of clergy abuse. Bill Donohue’s analysis of the report is at the end of the annual report. After the New York Times criticized the study as the “blame Woodstock” report, many [...]
Only a few weeks before Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States, The Journal News, decided to conduct an online survey of non-Catholics. After we were done with them, there is no doubt that they regretted it. The newspaper, which is owned by Gannet and covers the Lower Hudson New York counties of Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam, [...]
* The December issue of Catalyst Online features extensive coverage of the KC Star controversy; including Bill Donohue's From the President's desk, "LOOKING FOR DIRT." [ Click here for December Catalyst ] ALL PRESS RELEASES PERTAINING TO KANSAS CITY CAMPAIGN: October 21, 2011:”BISHOP FINN DESERVES BETTER“ October 31, 2011: ”KANSAS CITY STAR vs. CATHOLIC CHURCH“ November 1, 2011: "SUICIDE OF THE KANSAS CITY STAR" November 2, [...]
In February, we took issue with a news story that ran in the New York Daily News. On the front page of the Daily News, in huge bold letters, read the headline, “THE LYIN’ ‘NUN.’” Below, in smaller letters, it read, “Spins rape tale, recants.” The quotation marks around “nun” did not give the newspaper cover: [...]
Patrick G.D. Riley Mass Misunderstandings: The Mixed Legacy of the Vatican II Liturgical Reforms by Kenneth D. Whitehead. St. Augustine’s Press, 2009. Order online at www.staugustine.net or your favorite online bookseller. The subtitle presents the burden of this highly informative book. Not every liturgical reform given us by the Second Vatican Council sat well with the [...]
In late October, the Vatican announced a new process for disaffected conservative Anglicans to join the Roman Catholic Church. Some of the newspaper coverage was okay, but there were others that completely misrepresented the outreach of the Church. The opening sentence in the Vatican’s October 20 statement said, “With the preparation of an Apostolic Constitution, the [...]
