POPE “DISAPPOINTS” LGBTQ CATHOLICS
Bill Donohue Trying to get accurate information about the LGBTQ Catholic participation in the Holy Year Jubilee can be frustrating. Misinformation and disinformation abound, but in the end the consensus was these disaffected Catholics did [...]
RETHINKING RACISM
Bill Donohue The conventional wisdom holds that the prototypical racist is an uneducated white man who hates blacks. Such persons clearly exist, but this view is seriously outdated. The biggest enemy of non-whites these days [...]
TWO CHEERS FOR TRUMP’S FLAG BURNING STANCE
Bill Donohue This article recently appeared in The American Spectator. President Trump’s criticism of the 1989 Supreme Court decision, Texas v. Johnson, that legalized burning the American flag, is deserving of great respect, notwithstanding some [...]
SPINNING THE CATHOLIC KILLER’S BIO
Bill Donohue FBI Director Kash Patel got it right when he labeled the Minneapolis mass shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and an anti-Catholic hate crime. Did Robert Westman (who changed his name to [...]
NEW YORK TIMES RAPS CHURCH AND TRUMP ON SCIENCE
Bill Donohue New York Times reporter William J. Broad has a front-page story today depicting President Trump as anti-science, citing his affinity with the Catholic Church’s alleged anti-science pedigree. Last week, Trump fired the new [...]
APPEAL TO PRESIDENT TRUMP
Catholic League president Bill Donohue has asked President Trump to deal with the mass shooting of Catholic schoolchildren in Minneapolis by having the current Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty address its cultural roots, or by [...]
CATHOLIC KILLER FALSELY CLAIMED TO BE FEMALE
Bill Donohue Robert Westman is the man police have identified as the mass shooter in Minneapolis who murdered two children and injured many more. He falsely claimed to be a woman. To be blunt, there [...]
WHY MARRIAGE WORKS FOR WOMEN
Bill Donohue In 1928, sociologist W.I. Thomas maintained that “If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.” It is true that perceptions, no matter how false, have real life consequences. This [...]
SNOOP DOGG BLASTS QUEER KIDDIE FLICK
Bill Donohue Snoop Dogg took his grandson to see a 2022 Disney animated movie, Lightyear, and was blown away by what he saw. His grandson wanted to know how one woman can have a baby [...]
JAMES DOBSON, R.I.P.
Bill Donohue Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, has died. He was a committed evangelical, a brilliant psychologist and an influential conservative activist. He also helped build good relations between Protestants and [...]
ALL WE ASK FOR IS FAIRNESS
William A. Donohue Advocacy organizations like the Catholic League have to expect that not everyone is going to like what they do. But is it too much to ask that our critics be fair? Fairness [...]
PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: PAST AND PRESENT
William A. Donohue Every four years the big political prize is up for grabs, and with it comes pressure politics of an unrelenting sort. This campaign season is no exception, but what is different for [...]
SCIENCE UNDERMINES ABORTION ACTIVISTS
William A. Donohue Abortion activists never tire of bragging how much they want to empower women, allowing them to make informed choices regarding abortion. The truth is just the opposite: champions of abortion are threatened [...]
GOD BLESS MIKE SETTO
William A. Donohue In all my years as president of the Catholic League, few victories have been as sweet as the victory over the Miller Brewing Company. Miller proved to be a tough foe, but [...]
REQUEST FOR APOLOGY DENIED
William A. Donohue Last spring I received a letter from a congressman asking for my help in mobilizing public support for an official apology for slavery and segregation. I immediately said no. I've been waiting [...]
INCIVILITY REIGNS
William A. Donohue Entertainment critic Harvey Levin recently tried to convince Bill O'Reilly that the current wave of coarseness in our culture wasn't entirely new; he made the point that there were plenty of examples [...]
Muslim Rights In The Schools
William A. Donohue In New York City schools, it is legal to ban the display of a Christian nativity scene while permitting depictions of the Islamic crescent and stars. There are no vouchers or tuition-tax [...]
ATHEISM: OPIATE OF THE INTELLECTUALS
William A. Donohue It was Marx who said that religion was the "opiate of the masses," and it was the late French sociologist Raymond Aron who once said that Marxism was the "opiate of the [...]
SCORE ONE FOR OUR SIDE
William A. Donohue How many times have we been lectured by elites that the U.S. needs to get its laws in line with the Europeans on everything from welfare to the environment? Well, on April [...]
NEVER A DULL MOMENT
William A. Donohue Every time I think I've heard it all, I'm proven wrong. There is never a dull moment at the Catholic League. Consider what happened during Lent alone. James Cameron of "Titanic" fame [...]
“The Right Take with Mark Tapson”
Bill in the News ("The Right Take with Mark Tapson"): In this episode of "The Right Take" Mark interviews returning guest Bill Donohue, about his new book War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is [...]
Church leaders mostly silent after teen who opposed transgender ideology suspended from Catholic school
Bill in the News ( Fox News Digital): "The Diocese of Pembroke says the school is not under its jurisdiction," Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, told Fox News Digital. [...]
Catholic League Marks 50 Years of Fighting for Religious and Civil Rights
Bill in the News (National Catholic Register): A scan of the League’s newsletter Catalyst suggests the scope of its current interests, from infringements on religious rights at universities to the exploitation of children in the name of [...]
New Jersey U.S. Rep. Chris Smith Rips Biden Administration for Canceling Franciscans’ Longstanding Contract to Provide Military Hospital Pastoral Care
Bill in the News (Star News Network): However, Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, told The Star News Network the Biden administration’s decision “to strip a group of Franciscan priests [...]
Anti-Christian hostility reaching ‘unprecedented’ levels in culture, government under Biden, observers warn
Bill in the news (Fox News): "The church is not encroaching on the government, it's the government encroaching on the churches, and it's coming most viciously from the Biden administration," Donohue told Fox News Digital. [...]
“Wake Up!”
Bill in the news ("Wake Up!"): Bill Donohue discusses his new book, War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream, on Catholic Community Radio's "Wake Up!" To listen click here.
Florida pro-life pregnancy center sues Jane’s Revenge for financial retribution
Bill in the news (Fox News): In January, Catholic League president Bill Donohue penned a letter to the House Judiciary Committee "requesting an investigation of those responsible for attacks on churches, pro-life activists and crisis [...]
Catholic League documentary exposing Disney’s LGBT agenda wins film festival awards
Catholic League in the news (LifeSiteNews): This month, the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival announced that the film had won its monthly awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Documentary Short category, Best Editing, and [...]
Catholic Exchange Podcast: War on Virtue
Bill in the news (Catholic Exchange): Bill Donohue shares his opinions on: The "vital virtues" that are prerequisites to success; Why Hollywood's depravity is a coordinated effort to corrupt hearts and minds; Wokeism as a [...]
Bill Donohue Of Catholic League For Religious And Civil Rights On The 5 Things Parents Can Do To Help Their Children Thrive and Excel In School
Bill in the news (Authority Magazine): Parents need to inculcate the following 5 virtues in their children: self-discipline, personal responsibility, perseverance, prudence and fortitude. My new book, “War on Virtue,” shows how critical these virtues [...]
Annual Reports
Government
January Denver, CO – Colorado state house member Gwyn Green introduced two separate bills—one for private institutions and one for public institutions—regarding lawsuits involving the sexual abuse of children. We addressed this legislation with two [...]
Media
BOOKS June 3 Lewis Black released his book, Me of Little Faith. In his book, Black attacks the Church, Orthodox Jews and Mormons, but gives Islam a pass. Black’s chapter on Islam, titled “Islam. All I’m [...]
Miscellaneous
January 4 La Grange, KY – A divorced-atheist father sued to keep his son from attending Catholic high school next year. Following the divorce, the child was ordered by a judge to remain in the [...]
Cartoons
Rather than focusing on the positive message that Pope Benedict XVI conveyed at the World Youth Day celebration in Australia, cartoonist Simanca Osmani took a shot at the Holy Father for rejecting the culture [...]
Executive Summary
We’ve had big years before, but never have we had more blockbuster victories than in 2007. And never before were we engaged in so many different types of controversies; the range of issues was truly [...]
Activist Organizations
January 5 Michigan – Michigan Atheists director Arlene Marie admitted that a letter sent by the group to the Howell School District, which stated that the curriculum of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public [...]
The Arts
January 17-21 Cincinnati, OH – The Annie Hendy play "The Catholic Girl's Guide to Losing Your Virginity" was performed at the Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park. The play is about a 24-year-old Catholic woman who is [...]
Business
January Los Angeles, CA – Jaguar Distribution, a company that edits movie content for airlines' onboard entertainment, edited the word "God" out of the film "The Queen." After a public outcry, unedited versions of the film [...]
Education
January Fayetteville, AR – A photo of an outhouse that looked somewhat like a church, with the caption "Jesus Saves! And this is where He does it," appeared on a University of Arkansas Press brochure enclosure. [...]
Government
January 9 Lincoln, NE – State Senator Lowen Kruse introduced a bill that sought to curb underage drinking. In addition to banning minors from consuming alcohol in their own homes, the proposed legislation extended to places [...]
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PLAYING THE RELIGION CARD
It is true that we can never truly know what is in another person's heart, but when a politician makes his religion a central aspect of his public persona, yet [...]
MET MUSEUM OF ART BOWS TO MUSLIMS
The Catholic League supports the accommodation of religion, whether it be in public or private venues. But we find it bizarre, if not troubling, when venues not known to accommodate [...]
MUSLIM WOMAN QUITS TRUMP’S RELIGION PANEL
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MODERN MAN’S MONSTROUS FALL
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