A huge thank you to our colleagues at Commonweal Grant Gallicho [1] and Mollie Wilson O'Reilly [2] for taking on the unenviable job of answering the truly asinine blathering of Bill Donohue of the Catholic League. See Bill Donohue: Dorothy Day, Cardinal Dolan obviously Republicans [3] and D as in distortion [4].

Visit the Commonweal website to read Donohue’s latest ill-tempered flights of fancy and out right fabrications that he calls facts.

Here, I will only repeat the questions that Mollie and Grant ask:

• “Seriously, your excellencies and eminences: what will it take to make you rethink the wisdom of encouraging Bill Donohue to act as your public interpreter?”
• So why would any bishop stand up for a man like Bill Donohue, let alone endorse his work [5]?
• What are Catholics who are still struggling to forgive the bishops for the sexual-abuse scandal supposed to think when they see some of them supporting a person who has such a difficult time telling the truth about the Finn case, a man who has asked why teenagers “allow themselves to be molested [6]”?
• Or that some prominent bishops really do believe that Bill Donohue paints on the “canvas of the cardinal virtues [5]”? One of which is temperance.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan posts entries to his blog like, Gratitude to the Catholic League [7] and Why we need the Catholic League [8]. What does Dolan have to say about Donohue’s defense of Finn? Will the cardinal blog on this topic?