TRANS ACTIVISTS DEFILE ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL
Bill Donohue At a funeral service on February 15 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, men dressed as women and women dressed as men turned out to honor Cecilia Gentili. Gentili is a [...]
FBI ASKED TO SETTLE CATHOLIC PROBE
Catholic League president Bill Donohue wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray today about his apparent refusal to settle the agency’s investigation of mainline Catholics. February 15, 2024 The Honorable Christopher A. Wray Director Federal Bureau [...]
LENT’S COUNTERCULTURAL MESSAGE
Bill Donohue The Lenten message could not be more countercultural. In a society that prizes self-indulgence—we can’t have enough money, drugs and sex—it is difficult to understand, much less appreciate, what Lent stands for: penance, [...]
POLITICS AND RELIGION SCARE SECULARISTS
Bill Donohue We hear a lot about phobias these days. Islamophobia, transphobia, fat phobia, but no one seems to notice religiophobia. There is a reason for this: the trio of phobias mentioned are invoked by [...]
BIDEN’S IDEA OF AN “EXISTENTIAL THREAT”
Bill Donohue Millions of illegal aliens have stormed our borders, absorbing hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds, putting innocent children at risk, and some have become increasingly violent. It is no wonder that [...]
BIDEN FINDS AN EXECUTION HE LIKES
Bill Donohue When Joe Biden was running for president in 2020, he pledged that no one—no matter how heinous the crime—should ever be executed. Instead, the guilty should “serve life sentences without probation or parole.” [...]
THE UGLY POLITICS OF THE FACE ACT
Bill Donohue The grossest example of the unequal application of the law today rests with the Biden administration’s handling of offenses committed by pro-life protesters and abortion-rights protesters. The former have been aggressively pursued while [...]
GOV. ABBOTT MADE IMMIGRATION #1 ISSUE
Bill Donohue Whether one agrees with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to bus illegal aliens to sanctuary cities around the country or not, it is indisputable that he is responsible for making immigration the Number [...]
CLIMATE CZAR PODESTA IS CZAR OF DUPLICITY
Bill Donohue President Biden’s pick of John Podesta to replace John Kerry as his top climate envoy is revealing on several fronts. All three Catholics worship at the altar of climate control more than they [...]
MS. MAGAZINE’S BIGOTED SCREED
Bill Donohue The reason I wrote The Truth about Clergy Sexual Abuse: Clarifying the Facts and the Causes was to debunk all the distortions and outright lies about this issue. I am proud that not [...]
Indianapolis Archdiocese criticized after calling for firing of two gay Catholic schoolteachers
Bill In The News (Metro Weekly): The Indianapolis Catholic Archdiocese is currently in the midst of purging gay teachers in same-sex marriages from its schools. Most recently, Cathedral High School was forced to fire a [...]
Catholic League’s Donohue Opposes Fed Bench Nominee
Bill In The News (Newsmax): Catholic League president Bill Donohue on Wednesday joined conservatives opposed to a federal bench nominee who claimed there is no legal difference between the teachings of the Catholic church and [...]
Bill Donohue on EWTN’s “Bookmark”
A preview of Bill's upcoming interview, discussing his new book, Common Sense Catholicism, on EWTN's "Bookmark" which airs at 9:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, September 15. (courtesy of EWTN "Bookmark")
Catholic League Condemns Vandalism at Swarthmore
Bill In The News (Newsmax): Catholic League President Bill Donohue condemned the vandalism to Notre Dame de Lourdes Roman Catholic Church in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Vandals spray-painted a pro-abortion message on three glass front doors of [...]
N.Y. Times columnist reportedly urged violence against pro-life students: ‘Kick them in the head’
Bill In The News (Washington Times): A New York Times op-ed columnist has reportedly advocated that pro-life students be attacked, spit on and kicked in the head. When she was a student journalist at SUNY-Buffalo [...]
Catholic League: Pete Buttigieg ‘Loyal Soldier in War on Religion’
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is no friend to people of faith, warns Catholic League President Bill Donohue, but rather a “loyal soldier in the secularist war on religion.” READ MORE HERE [...]
Fox News anchors cut off guests speculating about cause of Notre Dame fire
Bill In The News (Washington Examiner): Two Fox News anchors cut off guests who tried to talk about suspicions on the origins of the Notre Dame fire on Monday. Media critic and deputy mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine Philippe [...]
CAVUTO HANGS UP ON BILL DONOHUE AFTER HE LINKS NOTRE DAME FIRE TO RECENT PARIS CHURCH ATTACKS
Bill In The News (The Daily Caller): Fox News’ Neil Cavuto hung up on Catholic League president Bill Donohue on Monday when he refused to stop speculating that the catastrophic Notre Dame fire could be [...]
Withholding donations to church fails to account for progress on abuse
Bill In The News (CatholicPhilly): In a time of anger and frustration over the church’s handling of clergy sexual abuse cases, some Catholics might be tempted to withhold donations to the church — especially when [...]
Catholic officials want apology for ‘disgraceful’ Saturday Night Live skit
Bill In The News (CatholicPhilly): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, based in New York, similarly took offense at Davidson’s remarks, saying in a March 11 statement that the [...]
Annual Reports
The Arts
January-February, 1994 New York, NY – The Whitney Museum presented a vulgar display entitles "Catholic Tastes," featuring the work of "lapsed Catholic" Mike Kelley. "Catholic Tastes" was a scatological exhibit designed to offend Catholics. The book [...]
Cartoons
Two bishops chatting in church (while a woman dressed like the Virgin Mary with a halo around her head is on her knees with a scrub-brush in her hand), one bishop says to the [...]
Commercial Establishments
February Anaheim, CA – Mother Publications, a five-year old company specializing in distasteful trading cards, released it’s "Perverted Priests" collection. A set of 36 cards, the company promises "100% unnatural corrupted clergy, demented deacons, maniac messiahs, [...]
Criminal Behavior
Yearly Total The Vatican announced that more than 260 Catholic priests and religious were murdered around the world in 1994. The civil war in Rwanda — in addition to killing tens of thousands of laity [...]
Education
2/16/94 Kalamazoo, MI – Stephen Hilker, a Ph.D. candidate at Western Michigan University, walked into his public administration class with the ashes he’d received earlier that day (it was Ash Wednesday). In short order, his teacher, [...]
Government
2/24/94 Marlboro, NJ – The League protested a restraining order placed on a newsletter published by Karen and Vincent Bove detailing the alleged apparitions taking place on a monthly basis in Marlboro, New Jersey. The decision [...]
Media
1/7/94 ABC-TV, "Prime Time Live" ran a piece on the Catholic Church and annulments. Included in the piece were interviews with disaffected women and alienated priests. Without any substantiation whatsoever, Diane Sawyer opened the segment by [...]
Workplace
2/16/94 LaGrange, GA – Detective Marc Clay, a member of the Police Department of LaGrange, Georgia, was suspended by Captain Randy Dye, Chief George Yates, and Lt. Barbara Price for refusing to remove the ashes from [...]
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TWO CHEERS FOR TRUMP’S FLAG BURNING STANCE
William A. Donohue 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 problems with [...]
JAMES DOBSON, R.I.P.
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 [...]
FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS BARELY EXISTS
Every year the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) releases its annual survey results assessing free speech on college and university campuses. The "2026 College Free Speech Rankings" was [...]
POPE “DISAPPOINTS” LGBTQ CATHOLICS
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 [...]
