In October, a batch of emails released by Wikileaks implicated Hillary Clinton in a serious anti-Catholic campaign conducted by her top aides. Bill Donohue seized on this issue, taking advantage of many national media opportunities. Two related stories surfaced: the one from 2011 involves Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton's communications director; the one from 2012 involves her campaign [...]
Father Philip Eichner has resigned as chairman of the board of the Catholic League. A new chairman will be chosen shortly. Fr. Eichner held this position since 1992 and was largely responsible for hiring Bill Donohue the next year as president and CEO. Donohue worked closely with him, and offered the following statement regarding his resignation. [...]
William A. Donohue In every society throughout history, young men have been the most violent, risk-taking, promiscuous, and reckless segment of society. If men have been the most morally destitute, women have been, or at least are expected to be, the most temperate. But that hasn't been true for some time, and now it is clear [...]
Russell Shaw Russell Shaw, Catholics in America (Ignatius Press, 2016) Who says Catholics don't have a presence in today's American politics to match the presence they once had? It all depends on which Catholics—and what version of Catholicism—you have in mind. As their vice-presidential candidate for 2016 the Democrats offered us Tim Kaine, a Catholic senator [...]
When Macy's fired store detective Javier Chavez for his convictions, not his deeds—he believes men should use the men's room—it displayed an intolerance that is characteristic of totalitarian rulers. Quite simply, thought control is un-American. Our public relations campaign against the corporate giant has triggered an avalanche of complaints against Macy's. The official response by the [...]
In December 2013, Halim Sharif, a club promoter from Mount Vernon, N.Y. filed suit against Macy's, saying he was singled out and detained after buying a $2,400 Louis Vuitton bag. The store's alarm went off as he exited, he said, but it also went off as a half-dozen white customers exited, and they were not stopped. [...]
A recent editorial in the New York Times, "Victims of Priests' Abuse Face a Choice," must be challenged on several counts. Its principal focus is the new initiative by the Archdiocese of New York, the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program. This program is designed to deal fairly with claims of clergy sexual abuse. The editorial said [...]
Below is a copy of the ad that we placed on the op-ed page of the New York Times on October 11.
Pope Francis recently drew a familiar distinction between those individuals who were struggling with their sex identity and those who were pushing a radical agenda. He embraced the former while strongly denouncing the latter. The pope's words are subject to translation discrepancies, thus accounting for the following inconsistencies: "Today there is a global war out to [...]
Yahoo News sought to manipulate public opinion by promoting the false notion that Pope Francis is at war with Donald Trump. In doing so, it is playing games with Catholics. Recently, on the homepage of Yahoo there was a news story titled, "Trump Goes to War with the Pope"; it featured a picture of Donald Trump [...]
