Critics of Vatican efforts to reform the LCWR have their talking points down in lockstep so well that everyone now just assumes that the reform initiative was triggered by concerns over these nuns pushing for ObamaCare. All of them are wrong, and it is not a matter of opinion. Just consider a couple of important dates. [...]
The way some pundits rallied on behalf of nuns made for quite a circus this month. Anyone who has ever read New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd and Nicholas Kristof, and the editorials in the Boston Globe (owned by the Times), knows how thoroughly contemptuous they are of the Catholic Church. However, there is one exception: [...]
On May 9, President Obama declared his support for gay marriage. In 1996, when Barack Obama was up for a state senate post in Illinois, he said he supported gay marriage. Eight years later, when he set his sights on the U.S. Senate, he discovered his Christian roots and said he was against it. In 2008, [...]
This month, some of the Vatican’s critics tried to defend the indefensible. Only 3% of the 55,000 nuns in the U.S. actually belong to the LCWR. One would never know this by reading the secular press. But facts don’t matter to those gone loopy. Joan Vennochi of the Boston Globe wanted to know why the pope [...]
During his MSNBC show of April 19, Lawrence O’Donnell opened fire on Bishop Daniel Jenky, the Vatican and Bill Donohue. Peoria Bishop Jenky recently said that President Obama’s radical secular agenda is violative of the First Amendment. Moreover, he warned that this path to religious intolerance had been followed before by the likes of Hitler and [...]
Gay activist Dan Savage gave one of two keynote addresses at the April 13 National High School Journalism Conference sponsored by the National Scholastic Press Association and the Journalism Education Association. He insulted the students, used profanity and trashed Christianity; many walked out. Savage was there to protest bullying, but he only demonstrated his hypocritical intolerance. [...]
On April 29, gay activist Dan Savage apologized for belittling students at an April 13 conference of high school journalists; he did not apologize for his vulgar anti-Christian remarks. That same day he spoke before a crowd at Elmhurst College in Illinois. Here is what he said about Pope Benedict XVI’s rejection of gay marriage: “What [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an e-mail sent to the Catholic League by Rev. Robert Ullman of the Elmhurst College Board of Trustees: On May 2, the Catholic League issued a news release on the obscene anti-Catholic talk given by Dan Savage at Elmhurst College on April 29. On May 7, we received an e-mail [...]
The invitation of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak at Georgetown University is yet another indication of that school’s compromised Catholic identity. The Archdiocese of Washington strongly criticized Georgetown with an editorial in the Catholic Standard, calling the university’s response to Sebelius “disappointing, but not surprising.” Another disappointing signal this month was the letter signed by nearly [...]
Bill Donohue: “There are few Catholic writers in North America who are as appealing as Michael Coren, and when it comes to demonstrating wit on TV, the Canadian host is in a league of his own. His new book, Heresy: Ten Lies They Spread About Christianity, is as entertaining as his previous work, Why Catholicism is [...]
