Bill Donohue of the Catholic League — who apparently has never seen a movie he’s slammed — has arguably done more than New Line Cinema’s publicists to raise public awareness of “The Golden Compass.” He has been regularly appearing on TV for months to vent against the movie, which he assumed was anti-Catholic based on a reading of Philip Pullman’s novels — or at least a reading of someone else’s reading of the novel. I briefly contemplated inviting Bill to last week’s screening of “The Golden Compass,” but didn’t want to sit next to this sanctimonious twit for two hours. I long ago vowed never to quote him again, but his e-mailed screed against “Compass” includes this: “Lou Lumenick in the New York Post was totally honest when he wrote that ‘Bill Donohue of the Catholic League has been publicizing the movie by claiming it’s an anti-religious tract, as much as it pains me to say so…[he] may actually have something of a point. You don’t need to be a Jesuit scholar to figure out that the film’s bad guys who keep complaining about heretics…are clearly meant to be reps of the Catholic Church.’” Just for the record, here’s the full quote from the blog last week, with the material he left out in italics: Bill Donohue of the Catholic League has been publicizing the movie by claiming it’s an anti-religious tract, as much as it pains me to say so, this self-appointed know-nothing may actually have something of a point. You don’t need to be a Jesuit scholar to figure out that the film’s bad guys who keep complaining about heretics — are clearly meant to be reps of the Catholic Church, even before you get a glimpse of their Vatican-like headquarters. (It’s still much less anti-Catholic than “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”).