CONNECTICUT ANTI-CATHOLIC BILL PULLED The bill that would allow the state legislature in Connecticut to reconfigure the governing structure of the Catholic Church has been pulled. Introduced by Rep. Michael Lawlor and Sen. Andrew McDonald, the bill was withdrawn at the behest of the person who propo...

Up in Bean Town a strange alliance has developed between feminists and the Catholic League . But, no it is not true that they've agreed to let priests into the abortuary mills to perform last rites—it's all about panties, lingerie and short shorts. Indeed, just like feminists hooked up with the ji...

GAY FASCISTS STORM CHURCH:NEW DEVELOPMENTS Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on new developments surrounding the radical gays who stormed a church on Nov. 9 in Lansing, Michigan (see Catholic League news release 11-11): “On Nov. 11, I asked Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox t...

A student at the University of Central Florida apparently violated Catholic doctrine by smuggling a piece of Eucharist out of a Mass. For those not in the know, our Roman friends believe that after a priest blesses the wafer and it is consumed by the parishioner, it somehow transmogrifies, literally...

When PZ Myers joking suggested that his readers steal communion wafers, Bill Donohue and the Catholic League went ballistic. PZ made the joke because he was exasperated by media reports of a Florida university student receiving death threats for walking out of church with some unconsumed Eucharist. ...

Here's a critical piece from the hawkish Jewish Press about Barack Obama that actually won't be all bad for him: it pans him for not being like George W. Bush and McCain-rejected Reverend John Hagee. It's evidence, if nothing else, that the narrative about unease with him in the Jewish community is ...

The Wall Street Journal reports that pastor John Hagee, the man whose endorsement was worth so much to John McCain that he was willing to overlook a long history of vicious and heretical statements, is issuing a "letter of apology" to Catholics. You can see the letter here. The letter is addressed t...

I have misspoken many times in the past and I promise that I’ll do it again in the future because I’m not perfect. I do try to chose my words carefully especially if I’m talking to someone who is recording me. It only makes sense. I have never called someone an idiot or pinhead or ...

While John McCain has chosen to avoid a repudiation of Pastor Hagee’s endorsement of the presumed GOP nominee, it appears that the damage control has commenced. Today, Hagee issued a written apology to Catholics and the apology was accepted by Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League. Ah...

DONOHUE TO DOBBS:APOLOGIZE OR DEBATE MEYesterday, after first addressing the Catholic Church's failure to act responsibly in handling the sex abuse scandal, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the social context in which the scandal took place, asking, "What does it mean to speak of child protection when po...