Bill Donohue questions the State Department's priorities: We know that President Obama is infinitely more sensitive to the concerns of Muslims than Christians. He cites Christians by name when he wants to blame them for some historical event, but he never mentions Muslims by name for their current slaughter of innocent Christians. His Secretary of State, [...]
Bill Donohue comments on jokes about women and religion: Writers for late night talk-show hosts are obsessed with Catholicism, especially those who work for David Letterman. Generally speaking, Conan O'Brien has been fair; Seth Meyers less so. Both of them offered jokes about Catholicism and women in their latest outing. "New pope doing everything he can [...]
Bill Donohue reacts to the news that Renald Luzier, more popularly known as Luz, is not going to draw Muhammad anymore: Luz became a Hall of Fame cartoonist when he put his portrayal of Muhammad on the cover of Charlie Hebdo in January. Now he is calling it quits: he pledges never to draw the Islamic [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a piece today by an editorial writer for the Kansas City Star: Yael T. Abouhalkah's mother should have told her son to mind his own business. He writes for the notoriously anti-Catholic newspaper, the Kansas City Star, and is now lecturing Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas about his decision [...]
Bill Donohue comments on today's oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on same-sex marriage: The catchy Beatles tune, "Love Is All You Need," is actually being played out today in the U.S. Supreme Court. Indeed, it is one of the central grounds upon which the case for gay marriage is being made. But in real [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the latest episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO: On his Friday night show, Maher lashed out at Pope Francis and Jesus in a particularly vulgar way. While discussing the Armenian genocide, Maher said, "You know who said it's a genocide? The pope. The pope was like f*** yeah it's [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Hillary Clinton's remarks yesterday at the Women in the World Summit in New York City: It was not surprising that Hillary Clinton, who strongly opposes a ban on partial-birth abortion, would tell her feminist audience that she supports Planned Parenthood. What was surprising was her comment on the need to change religious [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's op-ed in today's New York Times: Governor Bobby Jindal is more than a practicing Catholic—he is a man who will not change his "faith-driven view" of marriage, even if other public officials are willing to do so. Nor should he. His statement today on behalf of marriage (properly [...]
Bill Donohue discusses how offensive conduct is treated these days: There was a time when conduct deemed to be offensive, especially of a sexual nature, was condemned by everyone. But not today: what matters is the identity of the offender, not the conduct. Yesterday, David Letterman warmed up his audience by making a joke about women. [...]
Bill Donohue comments on those who are rejoicing over the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn: In 2002, Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland retired after it was disclosed that he paid $450,000—ripped off from the coffers that service the poor—to his boyfriend; Weakland was accused of raping him years earlier. Weakland's multiple offenses, all serious, have not deterred [...]
