Bill Donohue comments on office Christmas parties: Many label us conservative, but we're not the uptight ones when it comes to the annual office Christmas party. We know how to party. Helen Sorrentino of The Alternative Press advises employers to limit office parties to "a few hours." I manifestly disagree—ours is open-ended and could go on [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Pope Francis being named Time magazine's "Person of the Year": No one deserves this honor more than Pope Francis. It is worth repeating what we said about him just a month after he was chosen as the new pope. The following is the lead paragraph in our April 15 New York Times [...]
Bill Donohue comments on four stories that show media bias: The ABC News headline reads, "Gay Catholic School Teacher Fired for Wedding Plans." Well, not really: he was fired for breaking a contract he voluntarily signed. Michael Griffin, who taught at a Pennsylvania Catholic school, said his principal didn't care that he was gay, but when [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a New York Times editorial in today's paper: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) because the bishops are pro-life. Its pretext is a case involving a pregnant woman who visited the only hospital in her area, and claims she was not given [...]
From midnight to 1:00 a.m., December 7, Comedy Central aired a one-hour special, "Chris D'Elia: White Male: Black Comic"; it was part of a two-hour performance recorded last month (the show is being released on CD and DVD tomorrow by Comedy Central Records). Bill Donohue comments as follows: The D'Elia special featured a 13-minute segment that [...]
Now that Pope Francis has set up a commission to study priestly sexual abuse, Bill Donohue urges reporters to get their facts straight: Myth: Children have been the main victims of priestly sexual abuse. Fact: Since more than 95 percent of all the victims of priestly sexual abuse, as reported by the John Jay College [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a play set to open in Oklahoma City: "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told" opens tomorrow at the Oklahoma City Civic Center; it lasts until Dec. 22. When it opened in the East Village in New York in 1998, I said, "it sounds like a routine homosexual play: full-frontal male nudity, filthy [...]
Last night's edition of "Chelsea Lately" on E! was particularly vicious. The pretext to the vulgar comments made by Chelsea Handler, and guests Dan Levy and Josh Wolf, was the news that Pope Francis was once a bouncer, and rumors that he sneaks out at night to feed the poor. Handler: "It's a very popey thing [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB): In 2010, a pregnant woman went to a Catholic hospital after her water broke. She later claimed that she was never appraised of possible dangers to her health, and the option of choosing [...]
Bill Donohue responds to a CNN story on Rush Limbaugh and Pope Francis: After radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh criticized Pope Francis for statements the pope made in his apostolic exhortation, "The Joy of the Gospel," Christopher Hale of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good attacked Limbaugh. CNN prominently carried the story. But the real [...]
