From The President’s Desk

ABORTION IN THE POST-ROE ERA

By |2024-02-01T13:51:04-05:00January 18th, 2023|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue No institution in American history has been more resolute in its opposition to abortion than the Catholic Church. Protestants and Jews were almost in lockstep praising Roe v. Wade in 1973, largely because our side was against it. Then things changed. In the 1970s, evangelical Protestants moved away from their reflexive anti-Catholicism and [...]

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WHY WE DID THE DISNEY MOVIE

By |2022-12-19T15:58:47-05:00December 19th, 2022|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue When I was in the 7th grade, I was asked by one of my nun teachers who was the person I most admired. I said Walt Disney. When asked why, I simply said it is because he makes so many people happy. That was then. Over the years, beginning in large measure in [...]

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INTOLERANCE FOR FREE SPEECH IS SPIKING

By |2022-11-16T15:20:18-05:00November 16th, 2022|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue There have always been extremists on the right and the left who are completely intolerant, and while both sides need to be condemned, the real danger comes more from the left. Not because the right-wing extremists are less intolerant, but because those on the left are more numerous and they occupy the command [...]

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ELITES DEFEND CHILD MOLESTATION

By |2022-10-19T14:41:00-04:00October 19th, 2022|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue While doing the research for my book, The Truth about Clergy Sexual Abuse, I came to the conclusion that many of the Church's harshest critics were phonies. They didn't care a lick about the sexual abuse of minors. If they did, they would condemn it wherever it exists, but not only do they [...]

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BEWARE OF REPORTS ON CATHOLIC WRONGDOINGS

By |2022-09-19T16:37:14-04:00September 19th, 2022|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

Bill Donohue Over the past several decades, there have been many reports on alleged wrongdoings by members of the Catholic community. Unlike most Catholics, I have had the time to read a good number of them—it's part of my job—and I am fortunate enough to have the training as a sociologist to read them with a [...]

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COLLAPSE OF A COMMON CULTURE

By |2022-07-27T12:54:23-04:00July 27th, 2022|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

In the May issue of Catalyst, I wrote how elites in our society are bent on dividing us. This month I want to look at technology's contribution to polarization. Not to be misunderstood, I am not against technology; my observations deal exclusively with its ineluctable effects on our culture. When I was growing up on Long [...]

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CLARIFYING OUR ROLE

By |2022-06-30T11:56:46-04:00June 30th, 2022|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue Following the debacle with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, I found it necessary to write a statement that would clarify what we do. There are some conservative Catholics, and others, who think we should give anyone in public life who is pro-life a pass, no matter what they say or do. If we did [...]

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ELITES CELEBRATE WHAT DIVIDES US

By |2022-05-19T14:12:29-04:00May 19th, 2022|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

Pluralism is a good thing, just so long as it is not pushed to extremes, because when it is, it becomes a separatist threat to cultural cohesion. Unfortunately, we live in a time when our society is more polarized and segmented than ever before. For example, we should be encouraging new immigrants to learn English; it [...]

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CANCEL CULTURE IS CANCEROUS

By |2022-04-20T14:42:44-04:00April 20th, 2022|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue Technically speaking, censorship is something that only the government can do: it has the power to stop speech before it is uttered and prohibit the distribution of the written word. In a free society, such instances must be limited and well defined. For the most part, our society has done a pretty good [...]

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PROUD TO DEFEND MOTHER TERESA—AGAIN

By |2022-03-17T12:38:57-04:00March 17th, 2022|Categories: Catalyst, From The President's Desk|Tags: |

William A. Donohue Sometime in the spring of 2021, I was asked by a distinguished movie production company from the U.K. if I was interested in being interviewed for a documentary they were planning to do on Mother Teresa. I agreed, albeit with reservation. I agreed because I was honored to be chosen as her number-one [...]

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