CATHOLIC ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PANEL SHOULD GO
Bill Donohue A half-century ago, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, stunned the delegates when he condemned the 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism. He said the resolution “reeked of [...]
CHINESE COMMUNISTS PUNISH JIMMY LAI
Bill Donohue Jimmy Lai, the 78-year-old British citizen and convert to Catholicism, was sentenced in Hong Kong on February 9 to twenty years in prison for protesting human rights abuses in China. He was accused [...]
MAMDANI STIFFS CATHOLICS FOR THIRD TIME
Bill Donohue Representatives of the clergy from several religions were present at the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani. But no Catholic priest was there. Representatives of the clergy from several religions were present at Mamdani’s Interfaith [...]
RESPONSES TO CHURCH INVASION ARE ALARMING
Bill Donohue The church invasion that took place at Cities Church on January 18 in St. Paul, Minnesota was a flagrant violation of constitutional law, federal law and common decency. It is the kind of [...]
UNMASKING MAMDANI’S ANTI-ICE “VOLUNTEERS”
Bill Donohue When we think of volunteers, we think about men and women who give of themselves for the benefit of those in need. Neighborhood volunteer firefighters, those who work for free in hospitals, many [...]
SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS LEFT FLIPPING OUT
Bill Donohue The difference between the secular and religious Left is infinitesimal—they have more in common than what separates them. The latest example is the positive response from Americans United for Separation of Church and [...]
TRUMP’S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DAY FREAKS ATHEISTS
Bill Donohue On January 16, President Donald Trump forever declared this day to be Religious Freedom Day, honoring the central place that religion has played in anchoring our freedoms. He specifically cited the Virginia Statute [...]
A Crisis of Catholic Fidelity at Notre Dame
Bill Donohue highly recommends this article by Fr. Wilson D. Miscamble. He is delighted that we are disseminating his piece to our subscribers. To read the article, which originally appeared on First Things, click here.
THE “WALL OF SEPARATION” MYTH
Kyle Nazareth As America nears its 250th anniversary, fierce disputes over religion in public life increasingly stem from a widely accepted myth: that the First Amendment erected a rigid "wall of separation," forcing government to [...]
TREATING BLACKS AS INFERIOR
Bill Donohue Scenario: The Jones family lives in apartment 3A in an inner-city neighborhood, populated by non-whites. On a Friday night, they hear a child in 3B screaming his head off, begging the attacker not [...]
DOLORES GRIER—CHAMPION OF THE UNBORN
William A. Donohue On February 22, we lost a good one. Dolores Grier was one of the most committed Catholics I ever met, and one of the nation's strongest defenders of the rights of the [...]
LYING BY THE NUMBERS
Whenever there is a serious social problem, the media turn to experts to diagnose it and provide data. As it turns out, many of these persons are not experts at all—they are activists seeking to [...]
HAPPINESS ELUDES COLLEGE STUDENTS
William A. Donohue The most popular course at Yale these days—enrolling 1,200 students (they had to move the class to a huge building)—is called Psychology and the Good Life. It's not just Yale where courses [...]
BOSTON GLOBE REFUSES TO NAME ABUSERS
William A. Donohue The Boston Globe has been the most merciless attack dog in the media condemning the Catholic Church for the sexual abuse scandal. But when it comes to dealing with its own scandals, [...]
FREDERICK DOUGLASS’ BIGOTED SIDE
William A. Donohue In schools all across America, Frederick Douglass is known as a former slave who became one of the nation's leading abolitionists; he was also a champion of women's rights. Not so well [...]
NUDGING THE NEW YORK TIMES
William A. Donohue When the Catholic League objects to anti-Catholic art, we are routinely labeled censors by the artistic community, but when some of their liberal colleagues object to art that offends them—such as treating [...]
MONUMENT MADNESS
William A. Donohue We live in strange times. Never before in American history have there been fewer victims of oppression, yet never before have more Americans laid claim to victim status. This is especially true [...]
TRUMP WAS RIGHT TO BLAME BOTH SIDES
William A. Donohue President Trump was right to call out the extremists on both sides of the Charlottesville tragedy, but more needs to be said about those on the Left who helped to bring it [...]
RASH OF INCIVILITY HAS DEEP ROOTS
The lead story in this issue of Catalyst is disturbing on many fronts. The rash of incivility is bad enough, but the uneven response to these moral outrages is also a serious problem. The etiology [...]
MAINSTREAMING MEANNESS
William A. Donohue Tony Alamo died on May 2nd. Stephen Colbert made headline news on May 3rd. Bill Maher made headline news on May 5th. Dan Savage was back in the news at the same [...]
“The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”
Bill Donohue discusses the decline of Western culture and his new book Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis. To watch, click here.
Catholic Connection
Bill in the News (Catholic Connection): Bill discusses Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, with Teresa Tomeo. To listen click here.
Faith and Freedom with Shemane
Bill in the News (Faith and Freedom with Shemane): Bill discusses Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, on "Faith and Freedom with Shemane." To listen click here.
Jesuit Father James Martin: Church Would Be ‘Immeasurably Poorer’ Without Gay Priests
Bill in the News (Breitbart): When the news broke, the Vatican was swift to offer an apology, insisting that the pope “never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms,” while notably not denying [...]
Catholic Connection
Bill in the News (Catholic Connection): Bill discusses the recent attack on Catholic NFL football player, Harrison Butker, with Teresa Tomeo. To listen, click here. (Bill begins at 16:15 minute mark)
Epoch Times
Bill in the News (Epoch Times): To watch Bill Donohue's 5/19/24 appearance on Epoch Times TV, click here.
CATHOLIC LEAGUE: WAR ON HARRISON BUTKER ‘DRIVEN BY ANTI-CATHOLICISM’
Bill in the News (Breitbart): Donohue points out that the notoriously bigoted Associated Press (AP), for instance, unleashed a string of red flags about Benedictine College being “part of a constellation of conservative Catholic colleges [...]
Pro America Report
In the News: (Pro America Report): Bill Donohue discusses his upcoming book, Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, with Ed Martin on "Pro America Report." To listen click, here.
KLZ 560 AM’s “Rush to Reason”
Bill in the News (KLZ 560 AM’s “Rush to Reason”): Bill Donohue discusses his upcoming book, Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, on KLZ 560 AM's "Rush to Reason." To listen click, [...]
Majority of Americans Disapprove of Disney’s LGBT Agenda
Bill in the News (Washington Stand): Last year, the Catholic League and Meath Television Media released a documentary entitled “Walt’s Disenchanted Kingdom,” exposing what Catholic League President Bill Donohue called the company’s program of “sexual [...]
Special Reports
THE QUEST TO SCALP A BISHOP
This is a special report which was originally published in the September 2014 issue of Catalyst. The Catholic Church has many enemies these days, some of whom are ex-Catholics who left the Church a long [...]
FR. MACRAE’S 20 YEARS IN PRISON
Next week marks the 20th anniversary of Father Gordon MacRae's unjust prison sentence. What happened to him is unbelievable. My account of his ordeal was posted today on his website, www.thesestonewalls.com. To read it, click [...]
IRELAND’S “MASS GRAVE” HYSTERIA
To read Bill Donohue’s special report exposing Ireland's (Tuam) "mass grave" hoax, click here.
BILL DONOHUE’S LETTER OF COMPLAINT TO THE U.N.
Bill Donohue mailed a formal complaint on May 15, 2014, with documentation, to the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations in Geneva regarding the conduct of Felice Gaer, Vice-Chairperson of the U.N. [...]
The Limbaugh Letter, “My Conversation with Bill Donohue”
The following article appeared in the April 2014 edition of The Limbaugh Letter. Reprinted with permission from The Limbaugh Letter, ©2014 Premiere Networks, Inc. For additional information, or to subscribe to The Limbaugh Letter please [...]
BISHOPACCOUNTABILITY’S REPORT ON POPE FRANCIS
According to BishopAccountability.org, "He [the pope when he was a bishop in Argentina] released no documents, no names of accused priests, no tallies of accused priests, no policy for handling abuse, not even an apology [...]
DEBUNKING “PHILOMENA”
To read Bill Donohue's special report on the anti-Catholic film, "Philomena," click here.
ON THE FRONT LINE OF THE CULTURE WAR: RECENT ATTACKS ON THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
To read Bill Donohue's special report,"On the Front Line of the Culture War: Recent Attacks on the Boy Scouts of America," Click here.
MYTHS OF THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES
Bill Donohue President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Prejudice, as the psychologist Gordon W. Allport stressed, is always an “unwarranted” attitude. If someone experiences severe discomfort by eating certain foods, there is nothing [...]
STAR-LEDGER’S WAR ON ARCHBISHOP MYERS
Bill Donohue President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights May 2013 On April 28, an editorial in the Newark Star-Ledger called on Newark Archbishop John J. Myers to resign. There should be a resignation, [...]
Annual Reports
BILL MAHER’S HATE SPEECH
No one has been more obscene, and more relentless, in attacking the pope, cardinals, bishops, and priests than Bill Maher; he does so every week on HBO. Twenty times this year alone Maher used his [...]
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS
The following article by Bill Donohue was published by Newsmax on December 18, 2013: There are signs that the "War on Christmas" is abating. In 1994, a year after I took over as president of [...]
MISCELLANEOUS
January 7 New York, NY – At the New York Film Critics Circle Award, Michael Moore presented the Best First Film to David France for his documentary celebrating gay activism, "How to Survive a Plague." [...]
PREFACE
People often ask me what’s hopping at the Catholic League, and what issue we will be tackling next. After I bring them up to date, they’re usually perplexed to learn that I really don’t know [...]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Anti-Catholicism is as ugly as any other form of bigotry, though many do not agree. That is why some bigots are condemned while others are tolerated, if not commended. Generally speaking, it’s the elites who [...]
ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS
January – February Cranston, RI – The Cranston School Committee voted not to appeal a decision by U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Lagueux mandating the removal of a prayer mural from the wall of an [...]
THE ARTS
February 29 – March 4 Fort Lauderdale, FL – Parker Playhouse featured a five-day run of Matthew Lombardo’s play, “High,” with Kathleen Turner starring as a recovering alcoholic, gutter-mouth nun. Convinced of his special claim [...]
BUSINESS/WORKPLACE
February 24 New York, NY – Rep. Michael Grimm requested that the Empire State Building shine red in honor of the elevation of New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan to cardinal. Grimm’s request was denied by [...]
EDUCATION
January 21 – September 21 Nashville, TN – On January 21, Vanderbilt University administrators announced the new “nondiscrimination” policy that stipulated that religious student groups could no longer require their leaders to agree with the [...]
GOVERNMENT
January 11 Washington, D.C. – In a unanimous decision (Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that churches are entitled to make employment decisions without interference by the government. [...]
Most Shared Posts
MAMDANI MILKS “ISLAMOPHOBIA”
There is nothing phobic about disliking someone, unless it is wholly irrational. For example, lots of people dislike New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and with good reason: they find [...]
“EWTN Bookmark”
Bill Donohue discusses his book Christianity in the Crosshairs on "EWTN Bookmark." To watch, click here.
HYPING PENTAGON-VATICAN FEUD
Fact checking is a non-stop business at the Catholic League, and we are proud of our record. Michael McDonald, our director of communications, uncovered some aspects of an alleged war [...]
NEW ANGLICAN LEADER FACES TURMOIL
Sarah Mullally has her hands full. The newly installed Archbishop of Canterbury is facing turmoil in her church, much like that of other mainline Protestant denominations in North America. Mullally, [...]
