This time he’s going head to head against Bill Donohue, sociologist, civil activist and current president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in the United States.
Part 1 of the inaugural debate from ChristiFideles taped in front of a capacity crowd at the Union League Club in New York City on March 23, 2000. Donohue and Hitchens discuss the hostility of the American cultural elite to religion in general, and Catholicism in particular.
You can get to part two and three by clicking the link at the end of the vid. Enjoy!