FORD FOUNDATION FUNDING BEDLAM IN NYC
Bill Donohue The Ford Foundation, located in New York City, is funding left-wing groups that are protesting attempts to clean up a non-white neighborhood in Queens that has been overrun by violent thugs, drug dealers, [...]
CHRISTIAN BASHERS RIP HEGSETH AND HUCKABEE
Bill Donohue They’ve started already. One week after the election and the Christian bashers are foaming at the mouth over president-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense and Mike Huckabee [...]
BAR FOR SCREENING NOMINEES DIPS LOWER
Bill Donohue Now that Donald Trump is announcing his choices for various posts, some of the nominees are bound to have their personal lives held under a microscope. Assuming something tawdry turns up, the question [...]
POLLSTERS MISS “SLEEPER ISSUES”
Bill Donohue Pollsters seeking to tap what is on the mind of voters are right to focus on the big issues: the economy, illegal immigration, crime, abortion, education, healthcare, foreign policy, and the like. But [...]
BELIEVING BALD-FACE LIES
Bill Donohue We just finished another presidential election year. Never have there been more lies told by so many candidates at the federal, state, and local levels. Not the usual lies—the ones that candidates tell [...]
Veterans Day: War and Remembrance for Freedom Was Not Free
Fr. Gordon J. MacRae This article originally appeared on Fr. MacRae's website, These Stone Walls, on November 6. Veterans Day and Remembrance Sunday first honored the great sacrifices of the First and Second World Wars, [...]
REFLECTIONS ON THE ELECTION
Bill Donohue Not surprisingly, the mainstream media are in disbelief over the results of the presidential election. That’s because they live in an intellectual ghetto. Instead of just talking to each other, it would be [...]
NEXT UP—NEW SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
Bill Donohue According to the Washington Post, Donald Trump won the Catholic vote 56 percent to 41 percent. That’s a great triumph for religious liberty. As we previously documented, there were far more victories for [...]
HARRIS HAS A PROBLEM WITH CHRISTIANS
This article appeared in The American Spectator on Oct. 25 Bill Donohue Vice President Kamala Harris occasionally attends a Baptist church, but she still has a problem with Christians. So does her boss. Biden attends Mass [...]
ROGAN’S COMMENTS ON ABORTION DISSECTED
Bill Donohue When J.D. Vance sat down with Joe Rogan for a three-hour interview, the subject of abortion came up. Rogan expressed concern about the different state laws on abortion, saying the issue “is essentially [...]
WHAT INSPIRES FATHER RICK
n last month’s edition of Catalyst, I discussed the heroics of Father Richard Frechette, the priest/physician who has labored among the dispossessed in Haiti for over two decades. Now I want to explain what inspires this [...]
FATHER RICK: HAITIAN HERO
Mother Teresa never sought fame—she was content to simply care for the sick and indigent without notice or fanfare. While she was unique in many ways, she was not the first, or the last, of [...]
BLACKS, JEWS, GAYS AND CATHOLICS
Every demographic group has its Catholic League equivalent, namely a civil rights organization that fights for the rights of its constituents. But we’re different, at least in one respect: we not only defend individuals, we [...]
ABORTION NEWS IS MORE GOOD THAN BAD
As we mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, there is good news and bad news on abortion. The good news is that more Americans identify with the pro-life message than ever before; the bad [...]
CATHOLICS TURN ON ARCHBISHOP DOLAN
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan spent his first six months getting to know the priests, religious, seminarians and laity of his new archdiocese. He also got acquainted with the many issues facing him, a daunting [...]
FALSE ECUMENISM
The Catholic Church is committed to strong interreligious relations, as well it should be. Being respectful of other religions is a good thing, and it very often leads to crucial coalitions on timely political, economic, [...]
PROBLEM PERSONALITIES
Taylor Swift is a teenager who received an MTV Video Music Award in September. But rapper Kanye West thought singer Beyoncé should have won. This wouldn’t have been newsworthy except for what he did: he [...]
LYING AND DOUBLE STANDARDS
have often told my daughters that one of the great things about my job is that I don’t have to lie. I believe in what the Catholic Church teaches, and believe that its voice should [...]
SECULAR SABOTAGE
The first book that I wrote, The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union, was published in 1985. The groundwork for that book had already been done: my NYU dissertation was on “Organizational Change Within the [...]
OBAMA AND NOTRE DAME
When I first learned that President Barack Obama was invited to give the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree at the University of Notre Dame, I walked into McGeever’s pub and told the [...]
“Vocal Point” with Jerry Newcombe
Bill in the News ("Vocal Point" with Jerry Newcombe): In Bill Donohue's new book, The War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class Is Killing the American Dream, one of the issues he deals with is [...]
LA Dodgers blasted for plans to honor ‘queer and trans nuns’: ‘Diabolical’
Bill in the news (New York Post): Catholic League president Bill Donohue also wrote to Manfred “about this unprovoked assault on Catholics.” “Don’t believe the lie that the ‘Sisters’ mean no harm,” he said, accusing the Dodgers [...]
Catholic League Decries L.A. Dodgers’ Award to LGBT Group Known for Drag Queens in Nun Habits
Bill in the news (Breitbart): Catholic League president Bill Donohue denounced the L.A. Dodgers’ decision to give the Community Hero Award to “an obscene anti-Catholic group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.” READ MORE HERE
L.A. Dodgers Will Honor Drag Group Mocking Catholics: ‘Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence’
Bill in the News (Daily Wire): Catholic League President Bill Donohue called the group an “obscene anti-Catholic group” and said he is writing to Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Rob Manfred about the situation. READ [...]
The Elites’ “War on Virtue” with Bill Donohue – Plotlines
Bill Donohue discusses his new book, War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream, on "Plotlines" with Connor McHugh. To watch click here.
“Federalist Radio Hour”
Bill in the News ("Federalist Radio Hour"): Bill discusses his new book, War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream, with Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky on the "Federalist Radio Hour." [...]
“The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”
Bill Donohue talks about his new book War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream with Raymond Arroyo. To watch click here.
“Respect Life Radio”
Bill in the News ("Respect Life Radio"): Bill Donohue discusses his new book, War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream, with Deacon Geoff Bennett on "Respect Life Radio." To listen [...]
Catholic Civil Rights Leader Requests Nashville Police Department Release Covenant Killer’s Manifesto
Bill in the News: (The Tennessee Star) “So where’s the manifesto?” Donohue asked. “Who’s holding it back? What’s driving this decision?” The leader of the Catholic civil rights organization cited a report Thursday that Representative [...]
Trump, DeSantis each head for New Hampshire
Bill in the News (Washington Times): A new book has arrived with a telling title: “War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class Is Killing the American Dream.” The author is Bill Donohue, president and CEO of [...]
Annual Reports
Activist Organizations
Activist Organizations January 3 San Francisco, CA – Opponents of Proposition 8 vandalized Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, in the heart of San Francisco’s gay Castro community; the California resolution, passed by voters in November 2008, [...]
The Arts
February 12 – 14, 26 – 28 Orlando & Tampa, FL – The art show “Nude Nite” appeared over two weekends in two separate cities. The exhibition featured a couple of pieces that were disturbing. A [...]
Business
March 25 New York, NY – The manager of the New York Palace Hotel was fired after ordering an employee to remove ashes from his forehead on Ash Wednesday. The managing director of the posh hotel—located [...]
Education
January 22 Spokane, WA – Officials at the Community Colleges of Spokane and Spokane Falls Community College threatened pro-life students with expulsion if they held a pro-life event on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The [...]
Government
January 23 Bills were introduced in both houses of the Maryland legislature—sponsored by Delores Goodwin Kelley in the Senate and C. Sue Hecht in the House—that would have continued the duplicitous way private and public [...]
Miscellaneous
January 6 Eugene, OR – Two notes, carrying a bomb threat and an anti-Catholic message, were stuck on the doors of two separate Catholic schools, canceling classes. January 9 Philadelphia, PA – A burglar broke into a [...]
The War on Christmas
October 30 Olympia, WA – The director of the Department of General Administration signed rules that dictated no religious or other nongovernmental displays would be allowed inside any building on the State Capitol campus. But the [...]
Media
Internet May 13 The Washington Post/Newsweek blog “On Faith” ran a panel discussion on priestly celibacy. About half of the panelists disagreed with the Church’s position on this matter but were not vicious in their criticism. Four [...]
Pope
Pope Bashing January 30 – February 4Following Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to reach out to the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), a controversy erupted due to the media’sdistortion of the story. After it was [...]
Executive Summary
Executive Summary The most important Catholic event in the U.S. in 2008 was the papal visit that took place in April. Pope Benedict XVI not only brought joy and hope to the faithful, he swayed [...]
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LUTHERAN DENOMINATION IN FREE FALL
June 12, 2025 Bill Donohue As we have noted many times before, the more “progressive” a religious organization is, the fewer members it tends to have. This is certainly true [...]
TRANSGENDER CRISIS MARKS PRIDE MONTH: PART II
June 11, 2025 Bill Donohue In this second installment on the transgender crisis that marks Pride Month, we turn our attention to transgender activists and their sympathizers who are trying [...]
TRANSGENDER CRISIS MARKS PRIDE MONTH: PART I
June 10, 2025 Bill Donohue June is Pride Month, but this year, more than ever before, it is in everyone’s interest to confront the transgender crisis. In reality, there is [...]
FBI AND APPLE TV: TWIN CATHOLIC FOES
Bill Donohue Last week, new revelations about the FBI’s anti-Catholic spy ring emerged; it was operative under President Biden. We have been on this issue for years, having reached out [...]
