Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a remark made on NBC's "Saturday Night Live," and addresses the flair up over comments made by Fox News host Jeanine Pirro: "But if you support the Catholic Church, isn't that like the same thing as being an R. Kelly fan?" That's what Pete Davidson said on "Saturday Night [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the decision of a Catholic school to deny admission to the child of gay parents: The child of gay parents was denied admission to St. Ann Catholic School in Prairie Village, Kansas. Some Catholics are so upset that they started a petition to protest the decision. The pastor, Father [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a House vote on bigotry: After bickering back and forth all week about whether to condemn anti-Semitism, the Democrats in the House, led by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, have descended to tribalism, the hallmark of identity politics. Just about every "persecuted minority" was thrown a bone, though somehow the South [...]
The March 5 edition of the Wall Street Journal contained a serious error. The newspaper was contacted by University of Mississippi law professor Ronald Rychlak about a photo of Pope Pius XII that suggests the Holy Father was sympathetic to the Nazis. We are not pleased that the newspaper has not contacted Rychlak saying it will [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a House resolution condemning bigotry: A vote condemning anti-Semitism was scheduled to take place March 6 in the House of Representatives. The proximate cause? Comments made by Rep. Ilhan Omar. Omar has several times made anti-Semitic remarks (she is also no stranger to anti-Catholicism). Her latest salvo, which is [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a report issued by the Leadership Roundtable: It would be hard to find a more vacuous document on the subject of clergy sexual abuse than the one released by the Leadership Roundtable; it was based on a summit held prior to the Vatican meeting on this subject last month. [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on what Rep. Ilhan Omar told her fans two days ago: Rep. Ilhan Omar, who lied about the Covington Catholic High School students, and then, after unfairly maligning them took down her accusatory tweet, is no stranger to religious bigotry. Just ask Jews. Now she has struck again. On February [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a new school choice program: Yesterday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos unveiled an innovative school choice initiative sponsored by Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Bradley Byrne. The Education Freedom Scholarships program would funnel $5 billion into locally controlled scholarship programs. It is designed to offer parents school choice, and [...]
