DEMONIZING CHRISTIAN CRITICS OF THE LGBTQ AGENDA
Bill Donohue It is not enough these days for hard-core ideologues to disagree with their critics. They go for the jugular. The politics of personal destruction has never been so prevalent and so vicious. This [...]
NORMALIZING TRANSGENDER ABNORMALITIES
Bill Donohue The greatest child abuse scandal of our day is the exploitation of minors who want to “transition” to the opposite sex. Genital mutilation, chemical castration, hormonal manipulation—the very stuff of sex-reassignment surgery—are being [...]
CHURCH-STATE FEUD IN INDIANAPOLIS
Kyle Nazareth Most readers have heard of grand old churches turned into party halls. Holy Cross in Indianapolis should not be one of them. In 2024, St. Philip Neri parish assumed responsibility for the long-closed [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE KILLS, BUT ABORTION DOESN’T?
Bill Donohue The average person is concerned about the environment, and opposes policies that needlessly damage it. But the average person is not an alarmist. This is not true of many climate activists: some are [...]
LEFT IDEOLOGY MARKS VIOLENT TRANS PERSONS
Bill Donohue Violence among transgender persons is a growing phenomenon, and it is being fueled by extreme left-wing ideologies. Their targets vary, but anyone who supports capitalism or Christianity is particularly vulnerable to their attacks. [...]
TRANSGENDER CONDITION IS ABNORMAL
Bill Donohue Transgender persons need all the help they can get, and it is the responsibility of those in government, healthcare and education to provide it. Regrettably too many of those who work in these [...]
ELITES TOUT VIRTUES OF TRANSGENDERISM
Michael P. McDonald This Catholic League report details why the greatest child abuse scandal of our time—“transitioning” the sexual identity of minors—is so prevalent. It exists largely because of the policies adopted by elites in [...]
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY: CHEROKEE LEADER STAND WATIE
Paul Kengor This article was originally published by The American Spectator. Our intrepid progressives have tossed Christopher Columbus and his special day of remembrance to their ash heap of history. They have instead created something [...]
MEDIA INCURIOUS ABOUT D.C. CATHOLIC BOMBER
Bill Donohue What if a bigot, armed with hundreds of explosives, were to turn up at the headquarters of GLAAD, the huge LGBTQ organization, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, and threatened to blow up the [...]
JAMES GUNN’S SICK MORAL COMPASS
Bill Donohue James Gunn is a Hollywood standout. He is a music composer, screenwriter and a director of TV shows and movies. He made it big in 2014 when his Guardians of the Galaxy debuted [...]
ABORTION KILLS, USUALLY
William A. Donohue Melissa Ohden should have died in 1977, but the abortion failed. On September 9, 2015, the founder of Abortion Survivors Network testified before the House Judiciary Committee to explain her story. I [...]
NO “SPOTLIGHT” ON HOLLYWOOD CHILD RAPE
William A. Donohue In the run-up to the November 6 debut of "Spotlight," movie reviewers hailed it as an eye-opening account of the sexual abuse scandal that occurred in the Boston Archdiocese. But Hollywood has [...]
PLAYBOY DECLARES VICTORY
William A. Donohue [Editor's note: This is a slightly longer version of an article that first appeared online at Newsmax.] If they want to keep their jobs, the girls at Playboy have to put their [...]
DISOBEYING THE LAW
William A. Donohue Is it ever right to disobey the law in a democracy? This question has been raised a lot lately, especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. [...]
POPE’S VISIT RIPE FOR PROPAGANDA
William A. Donohue Propaganda experts are already out in force and Pope Francis has yet to come to the U.S. Propaganda is the deliberate skewing of information done for the purpose of altering public opinion [...]
MOTHER ANGELICA’S GREATEST GIFT
William A. Donohue Mother Angelica built the most powerful Catholic media empire in American history, one so towering that it really has no rival anywhere in the world. The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) is, [...]
WHO UNDERVALUES WOMEN?
William A. Donohue We hear it all the time: the Catholic Church discriminates against women. As compared to which institutions? The Congress? Women comprise 18 percent of its members. Fortune 500 companies? Women account for [...]
MARKETS AND MISSILES ARE NOT ENOUGH
William A. Donohue When I first arrived at The Heritage Foundation in 1987, I was greeted with great skepticism by many who worked there. The D.C. conservative think-tank had chosen me to be in the [...]
THE MORALITY OF DOCTOR-ASSISTED SUICIDE
William A. Donohue This article, which has been slightly revised, was published in the February edition of Legatus magazine. If there was one strain of political thought that was evident in the elections last November, [...]
BEHIND THE CHARLIE HEBDO STORY
William A. Donohue To say 2015 got off to a fast start would be an understatement: it seemed that all I did was grant one interview after another, running from one TV studio to another. [...]
New York Cathedral Holds ‘Mass of Reparation’ After ‘Sacrilegious’ Trans Event
Bill in the News (Breitbart): “At the service, many of those in attendance dressed as hookers, danced in the aisles, sang ‘Ave Cecilia’ when ‘Ave Maria’ was sung, and shouted, ‘St. Cecilia, Mother of All [...]
Archdiocese of New York denounces transgender activist’s funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Bill in the News (FOX 5 NY): Bill Donohue, from the more conservative Catholic League writing: "...men dressed as women and women dressed as men ... At the service, many of those in attendance dressed [...]
Joe Biden: Climate Change Is ‘More Consequential’ Than Nuclear War
Bill in the News (Breitbart): “On Friday, Catholic League President Bill Donohue pointed out that the president’s assessment of the problems facing the nation is wildly out of sync with the views of ordinary Americans." [...]
Joe Biden Appoints Radical Anti-Christian Leftist John Podesta to Replace John Kerry
Bill in the News (LifeNews.com): “In the case of Podesta, not only is his fidelity misplaced, he has actively sought to subvert the Catholic Church,” Donohue continued. “To be specific, we learned in 2016 that [...]
Biden’s New Appointment ‘Aiding and Abetting Sabotage within the Catholic Church’
Bill in the News (The Washington Stand): “If a non-Catholic president chose Podesta for a senior post in his administration, we would brand it as anti-Catholic,” Donohue told TWS. “When a president who identifies as [...]
Letters: The ACLU
Bill in the News (First Things): Helen Andrews’s “What Happened to the ACLU” (December 2023) offers a cogent analysis of the ACLU’s return to left-wing politics. In the course of writing a PhD dissertation, two [...]
Catholic group demands MSNBC apologize for Joy Reid’s ‘white Christians’ comment
Bill in the News (Christian Post): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, wrote a letter to MSNBC President Rashida Jones and Comcast President Michael Cavanagh Wednesday. Donohue’s letter comes [...]
Catholic League Hits MSNBC for Smearing Christians
Bill in the News (Newsmax): Catholic League President Bill Donohue on Wednesday slammed MSNBC for "recent anti-Christian attacks" by network hosts and guests, calling for a "vigorous network response." In a letter to MSNBC President [...]
Catholic League Forum: 2023 Year in Review
In this episode of Catholic League Forum Catholic League president Bill Donohue and director of communications Mike McDonald give an overview of the 2023 Year in Review highlighting the major victories the League has had [...]
Catholic Grief and Faithful Shepherds in Death and Exile
Catholic League in the News (Beyond These Stone Walls): Four of my dozen posts about the injustices that befell Cardinal Pell were written in 2023. One of them became recommended reading by the Catholic League [...]
Special Reports
OBAMA’S WAR ON RELIGION
Bill Donohue In September 2012, Bill Donohue wrote a four-part series that was featured on Newsmax.com. The series focused on the war on religion that has been waged by the administration of President Barack Obama. [...]
Some Key Misunderstandings Regarding the Child Sexual Abuse Scandal and the Catholic Church
Some Key Misunderstandings Regarding the Child Sexual Abuse Scandal and the Catholic Church William O’Donohue, Ph.D. Olga Cirlugea, B.A. Lorraine Benuto, Ph.D. Department of Psychology University of Nevada, Reno We are clinical psychologists (the second [...]
STATEMENT TO THE DULUTH COMMUNITY: UNIV. OF MINNESOTA DULUTH HOLOCAUST EVENT
Dr. William A. Donohue President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights April 10, 2012 It has come to my attention that the University of Minnesota Duluth is hosting a series of events on the [...]
SNAP UNRAVELS
Bill Donohue President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights At the end of 2011, a Missouri judge ordered David Clohessy, the president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), to be [...]
ROLLING STONE GETS UGLY: VILE HIT ON PHILLY ARCHDIOCESE
Special Report by Bill Donohue The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church provides grist for the mill to those who harbor an animus against it, so a certain amount of cheap shots are to [...]
SNAP EXPOSED: UNMASKING THE SURVIVORS NETWORK OF THOSE ABUSED BY PRIESTS
Special Report by William Donohue August 22, 2011 The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) held a national conference in Washington, D.C., July 8-10. This report details what happened. Over the past decade, Catholics [...]
John Jay 2011 Study on Sexual Abuse: A Critical Analysis
Special Report by Bill Donohue May 24, 2011 Click here to read Bill Donohue's analysis of the 2011 John Jay Report on the "Causes and Context" of clergy sex abuse.
Response to CNN Documentary on the Pope
Special Report by William A. Donohue, Ph.D. September 28, 2010 The CNN documentary, "What the Pope Knew," which aired September 25, deserves a response. The program begins with music and graphics that set the tone: those [...]
Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience
November 20, 2009 Preamble Christians are heirs of a 2,000-year tradition of proclaiming God’s word, seeking justice in our societies, resisting tyranny, and reaching out with compassion to the poor, oppressed and suffering. While fully [...]
Emulating the European Model: Prescription for Failure
Special Report by Bill Donohue September 2009 To say the Obama administration is enamored of the European model would be an understatement—it positively adores it. That’s why the “Change You Can Believe In” crowd is in [...]
Annual Reports
MEDIA
MEDIA RESPONSE TO VATICAN INQUIRY OF LCWR Once again, an internal matter of the Catholic Church became fodder for media voyeurs, pundits and talking heads when a number of dissident nuns became the subject of [...]
HHS MANDATE TARGETS CATHOLICS
This year, for the first time in American history, the federal government waged war on the First Amendment rights of Roman Catholics. When the healthcare bill was being considered, the Obama administration said it would [...]
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS
November 20 Alsip, IL – The Freedom From Religion Foundation used the threat of a lawsuit to force the Village of Alsip to cancel the display of a cross on its water tower, which had [...]
MISCELLANEOUS
January 22 Dorcester, MA – At Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Church, a statue of Jesus was decapitated and moved off its base. February 22 Union City, CA – On Ash Wednesday, vandals attacked St. [...]
PREFACE
There are many ways of writing an annual report: some organizations list a few major accomplishments, while others provide a tally of incidents or events. We don’t quantify—it’s not easy to do so with qualitative [...]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
When 2011 began, we did not expect that we would spend a disproportionate amount of time addressing attacks on the Catholic Church stemming from charges of clergy sexual abuse. But we did. Consider how this [...]
ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS
January 24 Colorado Springs, CO – The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) filed a lawsuit against the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) because they scheduled a prayer luncheon on February 10. The Superintendent of [...]
THE ARTS
January Panel discussions were held in several American cities and in Europe discussing the 2010 decision of the Smithsonian to remove a vile video from the National Portrait Gallery that the Catholic League had objected [...]
BUSINESS/WORKPLACE
February 22 Hilliard, OH – A statue of the Virgin Mary that had been kept in front of a resident’s condo for ten years was ordered to be removed by The Hilliard Village Association. It [...]
EDUCATION
February 17 Davis, CA – The University of California at Davis decided to back away from a school policy that would identify religious discrimination as “The loss of power and privilege to those who do [...]
Most Shared Posts
CHURCH INVASIONS ARE NOTHING NEW
Bill Donohue The invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota rightly triggered a visceral response on the part of people across religious communities. These Nazi-like tactics have also taken [...]
“Catholics in the Crosshairs”
Bill in the News (Catholic Connection): Bill discusses his new book, Christianity in the Crosshairs: Ruling Class and Radicals Find a Common Enemy. To listen, click here.
NON-ACCOUNTABILITY DEFINES OUR CULTURE
Bill Donohue Many children enjoy testing adults, whether at home or in school; they like to see what they can get away with. If there are few consequences for acting [...]
NOTRE DAME’S PROBLEM IS NOT UNIQUE
Bill Donohue The University of Notre Dame is not only one of America’s best institutions of higher education, it is also seen, for the most part, as an authentically Catholic [...]
