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 [...]
THE FREE PRESS SMEARS CATHOLIC CHURCH
Bill Donohue The Free Press enjoys a stellar reputation for accuracy. That is why I was shocked to read an incredible article by Laurie P. Cohen on the Catholic Church. It is one of the [...]
DOES MAMDANI HATE MINORITIES?
Bill Donohue We don’t have to speculate what New York City would look like if Zohran Mamdani were to become its next mayor. He’s just a more extreme version of former Mayor Bill de Blasio. [...]
MEDIA MANTRAS
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William Donohue One might think that in this day and age of multiple news sources—newspapers, broadcast TV, free tabloids, radio, cable, pay-per-view, magazines, the Internet—that it would be harder for faulty [...]
IDEOLOGICAL BLINDERS
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William Donohue It is not easy to be objective, but it is not impossible. Judges in the courtroom, along with Olympic judges in diving and ice skating events, generally do a [...]
SMITHSONIAN MADNESS
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William Donohue By now, everyone knows that we objected to the video that showed large ants crawling all over Jesus on the Cross, but what is less well known is that [...]
OBAMA, CATHOLICS AND ABORTION
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William Donohue When Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, the Republican Party was the pro-abortion party, and the Democrats were the party of life. There was a very strong WASP [...]
ARE THERE NO PRINCIPLES LEFT?
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William Donohue Catholic League members are not unfamiliar with the raging hypocrisy that governs our cultural elites. We know all about their unlimited tolerance for Catholic bashing, and their equally unlimited [...]
GROUND ZERO MOSQUE IS MORALLY WRONG
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William Donohue As president of the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization, and as a strong advocate of religious liberty, I am instinctively pulled towards support for building a mosque near [...]
HOMOSEXUALITY AND SEXUAL ABUSE
The conventional wisdom maintains there is a pedophilia crisis in the Catholic Church. Popular as this position is, it is empirically wrong: the data show it has been a homosexual crisis all along. The evidence [...]
UNDERSTANDING ANTHONY MALKIN
In New York, like all big cities, there are public notables, superstar athletes, entertainers, politicians, community leaders, businessmen, venture capitalists, clergymen, artists, media personalities, actors, musicians—celebrities of all kinds—persons who stand out and are well [...]
CULTURAL TOXINS
There are times when it would be great to be a fly on the wall, listening to how an unseemly discussion unfolds. I felt this way recently when I learned that Mother Teresa was being [...]
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 [...]
Teacher Unions Promote a Culture War Offensive
Catholic League in the News (American Greatness): As Susannah Luthi notes in the Free Beacon, “From its inception in 1979 in San Francisco’s Castro District, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence has satirized Catholic beliefs in [...]
In 1995 a ‘deeply embarrassed’ MLB owner apologized for event with anti-Catholic drag performers
Bill in the News (Catholic News Agency): Almost 28 years ago, the owner of the San Francisco Giants wrote a letter of apology to the Catholic League for hosting the drag group on the field [...]
LA Dodgers Execs Deserve Bud Light Treatment for Inviting LGBTQ Anti-Christian Bigots to ‘Pride Night’
Bill in the News (The Daily Signal): Bill Donohue, the longtime president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, has compiled a lengthy list, dating back to 1979, of some of the Sisters’ [...]
After Dodgers reinstate plan to honor group, LA Archdiocese calls on Catholics to support women religious
Bill in the News (Aleteia): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said the team had “officially endorsed anti-Catholic bigotry” by inviting back the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. “Only one [...]
LA Dodgers to Honor Profane Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Bill in the News (Independent Sentinel): “Bill Donohue of The Catholic League released a list of the group’s most offensive stunts since its founding in 1979 (see below). The milder ones include burning the pope [...]
Target and the LA Dodgers Put Budweiser to Shame
Bill in the News (The Stream): As for the “Sisters,” whatever “lifesaving” work they may do, their name and their nun-mocking outfits are quite intentional. As noted by Catholic League president Bill Donohue, “These homosexual [...]
Archdiocese Blasts Dodgers for Backtracking, Renewing Trans ‘Nuns’ Invite
Bill in the News (Epoch Times): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, accused the team of “rewarding anti-Catholicism” by honoring the group. Donohue said he wrote to Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to [...]
California Dioceses Say Honoring of Anti-Catholic LGBTQ+ Group Disrespects Women Religious
Bill in the News (The Tablet): The letter from Bill Donohue, the Catholic League’s president, said the Dodgers’ plan to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence was “an unprovoked assault on Catholics." “Don’t believe the [...]
‘Devout Catholic’ Biden Silent Amid Outrage Over Anti-Catholic, ‘Transgender Nuns’ Promoted by LA Dodgers
Bill in the News (Daily Signal): “Our next step is to persuade Catholics in the Los Angeles area not to attend Pride Night on June 16,” Catholic League President Bill Donohue said Tuesday, the Catholic [...]
“The Federalist Radio Hour”
Bill in the News ("The Federalist Radio Hour"): On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Bill Donohue, president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily [...]
Annual Reports
Executive Summary
Executive Summary Every year in the Catholic League’s history has its similarities and unique qualities. What made 2009 so different from past years was the extent to which government threatened the rights of Catholics and [...]
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 [...]
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NOTRE DAME’S PROBLEM IS NOT UNIQUE
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 institution. That [...]
NYC HOUSES OF WORSHIP NEED PROTECTION
Houses of worship need enhanced protection these days from anti-religious bigots. In recent times, virtually every major religion has had some of their houses of worship vandalized or invaded. Moreover, [...]
CHURCH INVASIONS ARE NOTHING NEW
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PLAYING THE RELIGION CARD
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