Bill Donohue comments on a bill being considered by St. Louis lawmakers: Board Bill 203 is under review by the St. Louis Board of Aldermen. It would amend Ordinance 67119, an anti-discrimination bill, by adding "pregnancy and reproductive health decisions as protected classes." St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson is properly opposed to this bill, saying [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the new HBO series, "The Young Pope," which debuts January 15: Most normal men and women will be watching the Packers-Cowboys game on Sunday. Owing to the fact that Monday is a federal holiday, the party goers will have had their fill of beer by the time the game ends around 8:00 [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the death of Steven McDonald: New York City Police Officer Steven McDonald passed away yesterday. Two years ago, in my book, The Catholic Advantage: Why Health, Happiness and Heaven Await the Faithful, I wrote about his heroics. "One of the most courageous persons I have ever met is Steven McDonald; he is [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Donald Trump's Education pick: The Senate is expected to hold hearings next week on Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Education. As soon as he announced his choice on November 23, anti-school choice activists attacked her. The ACLU immediately went on the offensive warning that "private and parochial schools" [...]
Bill Donohue comments on "The Nasty Show Volume II": "Comedian Brad Williams hosts some of the most deranged minds in comedy." That is the way Showtime plugs "The Nasty Show Volume II." Deranged is actually too kind a word to describe the show that aired on January 6. Mike Ward, one of the deranged comedians, made [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the passing of two great men on January 7: The pro-life community lost two giants on Saturday: Father Michael Scanlan and Nat Hentoff. I knew them both. They were two of the most courageous men I ever met. Father Scanlan not only saved the College of Steubenville, he turned the renamed Franciscan [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a woman who sued a Catholic hospital for refusing to change her sex: The mainstream media are floating a fake news story. They are saying that a "man filed suit against a Catholic hospital in New Jersey on Thursday for refusing to allow a surgeon to perform a hysterectomy on him at [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Comedy Central's Trevor Noah: On last night's "Daily Show with Trevor Noah," the host commented on the new McDonald's that opened near the Vatican. He said that "it makes a lot of sense when you think about it—both the Catholic Church and McDonald's have served billions: they both make people feel guilty [...]
Bill Donohue comments on an article by Ralph Cipriano on the latest developments in the case of Msgr. William Lynn: Ralph Cipriano deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his comprehensive and authoritative accounts on the proceedings against Msgr. William Lynn. His latest article reveals new dirt on the corruption that has long marked the Philadelphia D.A.'s office [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the findings of a new Pew Research Survey, "Faith on the Hill," that details the composition of the new Congress: When JFK was president, 19% of the Congress was Catholic; today it is 31%. During that period, Protestants declined from 75% to 56%. The most underrepresented segment of the population today are [...]
