Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the reaction of pro-abortion activists to news about the Supreme Court: Pro-abortion activists are in a state of hysteria. They are still reeling from the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court defending the right of crisis pregnancy centers to operate unimpeded by the politics of their adversaries. Then they [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on how the media are covering Catholicism: Last week, Pope Francis commented on problems at the U.S. border. "During the Obama years I celebrated Mass at Ciudad Juárez, while on the other side of the border 50 bishops concelebrated, and in the stadium there were many people. The problem already [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks made yesterday by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is accusing some of her colleagues of duplicity. She called them out for saying religious hostility was in play against the baker in the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision, but no such bias was evident in [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a U.S. Supreme Court decision reached today: In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a California law requiring crisis pregnancy centers to inform women about the availability of abortion and contraception was unconstitutional. The ruling was narrowly drawn and did not decide related issues. Writing for [...]
The June 27 Samantha Bee show was a rerun, with previously run commercials inserted, rendering our monitoring of Wonderful Pistachios temporarily moot. The next new show will be aired on July 18—and we will be watching to see whether Wonderful Pistachios at that time discontinues advertising on Samantha Bee. Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in today's Washington Post: The June 22 editorial in the Washington Post is a marvel. Writing about the accusation made against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, it notes that the alleged offense took place almost 50 years ago. "That it took nearly a half-century for these allegations to be [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest development in the league's battle with Samantha Bee: Just a few hours ago, I issued a news release asking our supporters to email Ashley Furniture requesting that it pull its sponsorship of Samantha Bee's TBS show, "Full Frontal." We just received a statement from the company saying [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on advertisers for Samantha Bee's TBS show, "Full Frontal": For the past week, the Catholic League has requested its supporters to contact Wendy's, asking the company to stop advertising on Samantha Bee's show, "Full Frontal." We succeeded. Wendy's, which advertised on her show of June 13, did not run an [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the news that credible and substantiated accusations of sexual molestation have been made against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, forcing him to resign from ministry: A little over a year after assuming the reins of the Catholic League, I started exchanging letters with Newark Archbishop Theodore McCarrick. He was genuinely supportive [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the TBS show, "Full Frontal," starring Samantha Bee: We were happy to note last week that Verizon and P&G did not advertise on Samantha Bee's show of June 13; this followed a week of protest by Catholic League supporters. We were not happy to note that Wendy's ran a [...]
