Bill Donohue Celebrations of our nation’s 250th anniversary are underway, yet America’s malcontents—who wallow in negativity—are predictably upset at all the hoopla. “Don’t forget about slavery,” they bellow. The best of individuals have a dark side, and so do the best of nations. No news there. But if they are among the best, isn’t that something [...]
Bill Donohue New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is torn over the USA’s 250th birthday. On the one hand, he knows he has an obligation to celebrate this key moment in American history. But on the other hand, his heart is not really in it. I put the test to AI, asking, “Has Zohran Mamdani Ever [...]
Bill Donohue America’s most vociferous critics love to trot out horror stories about slavery in the U.S., mostly as a way of saying we need to chill our enthusiasm about our nation’s 250th anniversary. As usual, they’re wrong. To begin with, slavery is one of the most common institutions in the history of the world. In [...]
Michael P. McDonald While the rest of the world is enjoying one of the largest sporting events that brings people together from all over the world, LGBT imperialists in Seattle are planning to turn a World Cup match into a vehicle to promote their disordered ideology. The local organizers have gone so far as to bill [...]
Bill Donohue The Catholic League’s digital billboard is now on display in Times Square; it will be featured from June 22nd to July 5th. High above street level on the west side of Broadway, between 46th and 47th streets, passersby, tourists, World Cup fans and workers will get a chance to see our billboard—it will flash [...]
The following letter lays out the Catholic League position on an issue that it is wrongly cast as a political controversy. June 18, 2026 Mr. Robert Manfred Commissioner Major League Baseball 1271 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10020 Dear Commissioner Manfred: As president of the nation’s oldest Catholic civil rights organization, I am [...]
Bill Donohue Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates the freeing of the last slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865. It will be commemorated this year by elite colleges and universities across the nation. This is rich given that most of those who ran these institutions at that time owned slaves. The Northeast Slavery Record [...]
Bill Donohue Throughout western civilization, there have been waves of moral relativism, periods when “non-judgmentalism” reigns supreme. Never mind that the decision not to judge moral behaviors is indeed a judgment call, the most recent American iteration of this “live and let live” moral landscape began in the 1960s. The Sixties was a time of “situation [...]
Bill Donohue This originally appeared on The American Spectator. Most Americans will proudly celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation, but there are some—all smug left-wing “deep thinkers”—who delight in telling us that many of the stories about the Founding that we believe are true are actually false. A closer look at their account often reveals [...]
Bill Donohue If there is one member of the Catholic clergy who goes astray, the media will make sure everyone knows about him. But when the evidence shows that clergy sexual abuse has long been checked, the data are ignored. That’s because good news about priests and deacons is not deemed worthy of disseminating. Just bad [...]
