Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Hollywood's reaction to recent abortion legislation: Hollywood has long been out of touch with most Americans, which is one reason why few bother to watch its annual self-congratulatory pageant called the Oscars. If there is one issue that divides Hollywood from the rest of the nation, it is abortion. [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks made yesterday by New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Imagine someone running for president of the United States who claims to be a Buddhist yet he rejects many of the central teachings of Buddhism. Imagine if this same person attends a Methodist church and frequents a pantheistic religious study [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on last night's edition of "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah": Trevor Noah will now be subjected to the same relentless attack on a select list of his sponsors that Samantha Bee experienced. That gambit paid off: After we managed to kill seven of her most prominent sponsors last year, [...]
May 29, 2019 Hon. Jerry Hill State Capitol, Room 5035 Sacramento, CA 95814 Dear Sen. Hill: Regarding SB 360, you have been quoted as saying that "the clergy-penitent privilege has been abused on a large scale, resulting in underreported and systemic abuse of thousands of children across multiple denominations and faiths." Could you please provide my [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an abortion bill that is pending in Illinois: New York and Virginia are proud of their abortion record—a child can be aborted for any reason and at any time of pregnancy—and now Illinois lawmakers are playing copycat. The "Reproductive Health Act" would allow for partial-birth abortion, which means that [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a vote yesterday by the California state Senate: In a frontal assault on religious freedom, the California state Senate yesterday voted overwhelmingly to require Catholic priests to violate the seal of the confessional. By a 30-4 vote, the Senate passed SB360, requiring Catholic priests to report to civil authorities when a penitent [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Pete Buttigieg's position on abortion: South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has degrees from Harvard and Oxford and was a Rhodes scholar. The New Republic is in love with him, calling the son of two college professors a "genius." When it comes to abortion, however, the "genius" hasn't a clue [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a federal judicial nominee: Michael Bogren is a nominee for the U.S. District Court for western Michigan. During Senate judiciary committee hearings yesterday, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley called out the nominee on his unconscionable attempt to equate Catholic teaching against same-sex marriage with the Ku Klux Klan's opposition to [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in the May 21 Buffalo News: Editors at the Buffalo News are demanding that New York's attorney general investigate alleged collusion, decades ago, between Buffalo police and the Catholic Church. Their professed indignation is bogus for several reasons. To begin with, their claim that the alleged collusion [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a Catholic church vandalized in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania: On Sunday, pro-abortion activists vandalized Notre Dame de Lourdes Roman Catholic Church in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. On the three glass front doors of the church, the vandals spray-painted a pro-abortion message, "You do not have the right to decide what people can do, [...]
