Bill Donohue comments on last night's episode of the Fox TV show, "Mulaney," starring comedian John Mulaney: Mulaney, mimicking Seinfeld, offers typical sit-com fare blended with occasional stand-up appearances. But unlike Seinfeld, who managed to be funny without taking cheap shots at Catholicism, Mulaney can't pull it off without getting raunchy. He also fails to entertain. [...]
A New Hampshire Catholic woman was recently fired as a ballot clerk for saying "God bless you" as voters left the polls. To read Bill Donohue's letter to New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner, click here. Contact Gardner: wgardner@sos.nh.gov
Bill Donohue comments on the 2014 election results: Just two years ago, Catholics voted for President Barack Obama by a margin of 50 percent to 48 percent. On Tuesday, they abandoned Obama's party: 54 percent voted for Republican candidates and 45 percent went for the Democrats (60 percent of white Catholics chose GOP candidates). What is [...]
Bill Donohue comments on fundamentalist Christians attacking Catholics in the D.C. area: Over the past several weeks, a wave of crazed Protestant activists attacked Catholic churches in Washington and Maryland. They shouted anti-Catholic slogans with their bullhorns, passed out vile literature attacking the teachings of the Catholic Church, harassed parishioners going to Mass—they even stormed churches [...]
Bill Donohue comments on last night's episode of the Comedy Central show "@Midnight": "Jesus Christ Superstardust" was the name of the game where contestants had to guess if the person pictured was a hot priest, or an unemployed actor working at a restaurant. In the first round, they were asked to guess if the depicted person [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the 2014 Report on "Religious Freedom in the World" published yesterday by Aid to the Church in Need, a Pontifical Foundation entity: Aid to the Church in Need monitors religious liberty around the world. Its latest report covered the period October 2012 to June 2014. It concluded that of the world's 196 [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the latest example of intolerance for the religious rights of military personnel: A Latino Colonel writes a tribute to his mother in an Air National Guard newsletter, the Stinger, and learns that he has violated rules set by the U.S. Air Force; the Air National Guard is governed by Air Force rules. [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Walmart's decision to pull offensive Catholic Halloween costumes: Walmart has deleted from its website the three offensive Catholic Halloween costumes we objected to last week. Store officials made the right decision, albeit it took a barrage of angry Catholic patrons to trigger the outcome; they responded to our two news releases last [...]
