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Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on news reports indicating that New Hampshire House Majority Leader David J. Bettencourt plans to apologize to Manchester Bishop John B. McCormack for calling him a "pedophile pimp": The apology is overdue. We can only hope it is sincere and to the point, quite unlike the lame letter Bettencourt [...]
New Hampshire House Majority Leader David J. Bettencourt is not backing away from his attack on Manchester Bishop John B. McCormack. After the bishop joined an interfaith rally last week protesting budget cuts and efforts to roll back labor union rights, Bettencourt, a Republican, called McCormack a "pedophile pimp who should have been led away from [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a request to withdraw his call for censuring New Hampshire House Majority Leader David J. Bettencourt; the request was made by Rep. Sean Cox. Because of a policy dispute, Bettencourt called Manchester Bishop John B. McCormack a "pedophile pimp who should have been led away from the State House [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks recently made by Trinity College professor Mark Silk and gay writer Andrew Sullivan: In a post today on Beliefnet, Mark Silk looks at charges made by attorney Jeffrey Anderson against New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan. Silk weighs my defense of Dolan saying I was correct to say [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a news story about a former priest who molested a male listed as John Doe: On September 28, the Chicago Tribune reported that "former Chicago priest and convicted sex offender Daniel McCormick sexually abused him [Doe] while he was a grammar school student." We then learn that the student [...]
Eugene Robinson, an editorial page writer for the Washington Post, writes today that "practically every day, there are new revelations of pedophile priests having been transferred to other parishes rather than being defrocked and reported to authorities." Catholic League president Bill Donohue responds as follows: It would be more accurate to say that every day there [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses today's New York Times news story on the pope: "Pope Was Told Pedophile Priest Would Get Transfer." That's the headline in today's New York Times piece on the pope. Yet the Times offers absolutely no evidence to support this charge. All it says is that his office "was copied on [...]
There were several news reports last week on the Vatican’s reply to critics from the International Humanist and Ethical Union; the London-based organization condemned the Vatican for not dealing responsibly with the issue of sexual abuse. The Vatican will soon release a report on this subject to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, a [...]
