Bill Donohue comments as follows: On March 3 and 5, the Vatican released a statement on the pope's trip to two Italian cities. It noted that he will have lunch with prisoners at "Giuseppe Salvia," a detention center in Poggioreale. The Vatican's website today also mentions the visit. So what's the big deal? The media are [...]
Bill Donohue comments on how celebrities are responding to a remark made by Domenico Dolce, of Dolce & Gabbana fame, that they found offensive: The open-minded ones in New York and Hollywood are having hissy fits over a quip made by Dolce about the kinds of kids their gay friends are raising. "You are born to [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the decision by school officials in Cranston, Rhode Island to deny teachers the right to take off on Good Friday: We are delighted that the Cranston Teachers' Alliance has sued Cranston Public Schools and its board for violating their contract and civil rights. Unlike previous years, schools in Cranston are slated to [...]
Bill Donohue comments on yesterday's vote by members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to allow gay marriage: The most predictable outcome of this vote is that membership in the Presbyterian Church will decline further, and that many of the alienated will join the growing ranks of the Catholic Church. Moreover we stand to gain some of [...]
Bill Donohue comments on another questionable accusation against a priest: I do not know Father Leo Riley but I trust him when he says he is innocent of charges recently made against him: the Floridian priest, who is assigned to a parish in East Naples, is being accused of sexually abusing someone when he worked in [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the decision by the University of Oklahoma to expel two fraternity students for making racist comments: Racist speech on campus is unacceptable and should be addressed by administrators. But does it warrant expulsion? If it constitutes a "clear and present danger," it should. For example, consider a racist speaker who gins up [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Kansas Senate Bill 175. It was introduced last month and was the subject of hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 9: This bill would protect religious organizations on the campus of public universities from being subverted by their enemies. For many years, Catholic and Christian groups on colleges across the [...]
Bill Donohue comments on an op-ed by Garry Wills that was published yesterday by the Washington Post: In his 2006 address at Regensburg University, Pope Benedict XVI described how Islam was perceived as "evil and inhuman" by a 14th-century Christian emperor who was under siege by Muslims. The central point of the pope's address was to [...]
Bill Donohue comments on today's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court ordering a review of the University of Notre Dame's challenge to the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate: On February 21, 2014, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the University of Notre Dame had to accept an accommodation to the HHS mandate [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the fourth episode of this season's Netflix program, "House of Cards": I would like to ask those who receive our news releases to contact Jonathan Friedland, VP, Corporate Communications at Netflix, and ask him to explain why the character who plays the president of the United States, Frank Underwood, found it necessary [...]
