Bill Donahue claims to be some defender of Catholicism. Meanwhile, he supports homosexual Civil Unions. Forgive me for pointing out the inconsistency.
Just so folks know what you are referring to, and there is no mistake that the Vatican is against Civil Unions, here’s an excerpt from your link:
“CONCLUSION
11. The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behaviour or to legal recognition of homosexual unions.
The common good requires that laws recognize, promote and protect marriage as the basis of the family, the primary unit of society. Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behaviour, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity. The Church cannot fail to defend these values, for the good of men and women and for the good of society itself.”