Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on media reaction to an interesting case of religion and sex abuse: One week ago today, AP ran a story about a German female bishop, Maria Jepsen, who was forced to resign amidst accusations she was involved in a cover-up of a Protestant priest who reportedly abused as many as [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Day 51 of the protest campaign on behalf of Mother Teresa: Today I am writing to every parish in the Putnam County, New York informing them of our protest demonstration at 6 p.m. on August 26 outside the Empire State Building on 34th Street and 5th Avenue. The rally [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: Yesterday, a Boston Globe editorial unfavorably compared the Vatican to the American bishops, saying that "Until the church adopts a zero-tolerance policy, justice cannot be served…." On July 9 and July 17, the New York Times, which owns the Globe, ran editorials voicing the same criticism. The Times [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Day 50 of the protest campaign on behalf of Mother Teresa: Today I am writing to every parish in the Dutchess County, New York informing them of our protest demonstration at 6 p.m. on August 26 outside the Empire State Building on 34th Street and 5th Avenue. The rally [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Day 49 of the protest campaign on behalf of Mother Teresa: Today I am writing to every parish in the Diocese of Albany informing them of our protest demonstration at 6 p.m. on August 26 outside the Empire State Building on 34th Street and 5th Avenue. The rally is [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a piece by Tim Padgett that appeared yesterday on the website of Time: The Catholic Church decides to maintain its policy against women priests. Those who are Catholic and don't like it, can always join any one of the mainline Protestant denominations that allow for women clergy: given that [...]
At an NAACP banquet last March, an African-American official for the U.S. Department of Agriculture told the audience how she once did not do all she could to help a white farmer get the aid he requested. The official, Shirley Sherrod, who was working at a land assistance organization in Georgia at the time, said the [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Day 48 of the protest campaign on behalf of Mother Teresa: Today I am writing to every parish in Staten Island informing them of our protest demonstration at 6 p.m. on August 26 outside the Empire State Building on 34th Street and 5th Avenue. The rally is being held [...]
On the July 16 edition of the "Tonight Show," host Jay Leno said "it was so hot I saw a priest stop at a kids' lemonade stand—just got lemonade." Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded this way: The man is a bigoted addict. This is the eighth time this year Jay Leno has targeted all priests [...]
In yesterday's New York Times, columnist Frank Rich called Mel Gibson a "bigoted blowhard," branding his movie "The Passion of the Christ" anti-Semitic; he also attacked several Catholic and Protestant leaders who befriended Gibson, including Catholic League president Bill Donohue. Donohue responds as follows: If Frank Rich were as sensitive to anti-Catholicism as he is anti-Semitism, [...]
