LOOK WHO’S A “DOMESTIC THREAT”?
Bill Donohue sent the following letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: June 25, 2024 Hon. Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary of Homeland Security Washington, D.C. 20528 Dear Secretary Mayorkas: It was recently reported that [...]
PROBING CATHOLIC-RUN INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS
Bill Donohue On June 14, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a report on boarding schools for Native American children, some of which were run by the Catholic Church. From 1869 to [...]
THE RACIST UNDERTONES OF “EQUITY EDUCATION”
Bill Donohue The term “equity education” is a misnomer: it has nothing to do with fairness. Rather, it has everything to do with dumbing-down academic standards. It also carries racist undertones. From as long as [...]
WE ARE BADLY DIVIDED
Bill Donohue In his eighteenth century classic, Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur said he had never seen such assimilation as in America. The French writer said our ability to [...]
FBI MUST RELEASE “NASHVILLE MANIFESTO”
The following letter by Catholic League president Bill Donohue to Rep. James Comer, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, explains why he wants the FBI to authorize the release of the “Nashville Manifesto” [...]
WHY WON’T RACHEL LEVINE CELEBRATE FATHER’S DAY?
Bill Donohue Rachel Levine, President Biden’s assistant secretary of health, should be celebrating Father’s Day—he has two children—but he won’t be. That’s because he thinks he is a woman. But he didn’t celebrate Mother’s Day [...]
POPE WORRIED ABOUT “FAGS” IN THE VATICAN
Bill Donohue Pope Francis is obviously worried about “fags” in the seminaries, and even in the Vatican. On May 28, it was reported that in a private meeting with 250 Italian bishops the week before, [...]
POPE TO MEET WITH U.S. COMEDIANS
Bill Donohue On June 14, Pope Francis is scheduled to meet 105 comedians from 15 countries. Americans who have been invited include Jim Gaffigan, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock, Tig Notaro and Whoopi Goldberg. The meeting [...]
BIDEN GUILTY OF CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
Bill Donohue The Biden Administration never stops telling us about the virtue of diversity and how we must respect it. Yet when it comes to the diversity that foreign countries exhibit, especially in matters relating [...]
GOOGLE LOVES THE QUEER AGENDA
Bill Donohue Silicon Valley is home to tech companies that are known for their embrace of the queer agenda, as well as their animus to people of faith. When it comes to advancing this cause, [...]
Catholic group calls Seth Meyers ‘sick’ after church attack joke
Bill In The News (Owen Sound Sun Times): Seth Meyers has incurred the wrath of the leading officials at the Catholic League after joking about a bizarre attack at a Brooklyn church. The joke enraged [...]
In our opinion: Eliminating clergy-penitent privilege raises First Amendment red flags
Bill In The News (Deseret News): This week the Catholic League came out strongly against proposed legislation in Utah aiming to eliminate an exemption for clergy when it comes to reporting confidential confessions detailing abuse. As others have [...]
Utah bill requiring clergy to report child abuse confessions draws criticism
Bill In The News (KUTV, Utah): An organization dedicated to defending and protecting the Catholic Church is speaking out against a new bill that is set to be discussed in Utah's 2020 Legislative session. President [...]
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Mocked the Nativity Scene…and Boston Sports Fans
Bill In the News (Newsbusters): It's not surprising that ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live would think it's high-larious to make fun of Nativity scene. Catholic League president Bill Donohue made the case that Kimmel probably wouldn't consider [...]
Bloomberg Foundation Has Given More Than $13 Million to Planned Parenthood
Bill In The News (CBN News): The foundation set up by new Democrat presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has been donating millions of dollars to the nation’s leading abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. In a recent column [...]
Surge of new abuse claims threatens church like never before
Bill In The News (AP): AP interviews with more than a dozen lawyers and clergy abuse watchdog groups offered a wide range of estimates but many said they expected at least 5,000 new cases against [...]
Questions Of Faith: Exclusive Survey of Catholic Church Employees
Bill In The News (NBC Connecticut): NBC Owned Television Stations across the country conducted an anonymous survey of Catholic Church employees. The results provide a unique perspective on how Catholics in America are served by their [...]
Inside Catholic Church, Many Satisfied With Response to Clergy Abuse, NBC Survey Finds
Bill In The News (NBC Boston): Revelations of clergy abuse have shaken many Catholics across the country, including in Massachusetts, where 17 years ago, journalists exposed a wide-ranging effort by local church leaders to cover [...]
Local Abuse Survivors React to NBC Survey of Catholic Church Employees
Bill In The News (NBC Washington): For the roughly two million Catholics who live in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, clergy sex abuse has caused heartache and distrust within an institution gripped by scandal for nearly [...]
Survey Reveals Employees of Catholic Church Divided on Clergy Abuse and Reforms
Bill In The News (nbcmiami.com): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, a nonprofit that defends the church in the media, said the NBC survey results show employees are falsely conflating old headlines with modern [...]
Annual Reports
Activists
January 2 San Francisco, CA - About 200 members of the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights, the Women's Action Coalition and other pro-choice groups demonstrated outside St. Mary's Cathedral, blocking the street to protest [...]
Arts
January 4 - February 5 Millburn, NJ - In the play Forever Plaid, performed at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, a bus filled with Catholic youths hits a car, killing the occupants. This incident triggered a [...]
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Commercial Establishments
March 12 Rochester, NY - The Rochester Democrat and Chroniclefeatured a story on the Automatic Confession Machine, which was developed by Greg Garvey of Concordia University in Montreal. The machine has a menu which includes the Ten Commandments. [...]
Criminal Behavior
March 11-12 Waukesha, WI - The $10,000 statue of St. William at St. William Catholic Church in Waukesha was vandalized when it was pushed off its pedestal sometime during the night. The head of the five-foot-statue [...]
Education
January Ypsilanti, MI - A graduate student at Eastern Michigan University was ordered to remove a crucifix that was affixed to the wall above his desk. February 7 Tinton Falls, NJ - The Monmouth Regional High School Board [...]
Government
October 13, 1994 - April 2, 1995 Fort Worth, TX – The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History presented an exhibit on "The History of the Bible" which included 25 Bibles dating from the 12th [...]
Media
January Request magazine published a painting under the headline, "10 Things Jesus Christ and Michael Jackson have in Common," in which Michael Jackson was made to look like Jesus Christ, complete with halo. Among the ten [...]
Executive Summary
Examples of anti-Catholic bigotry that appear in this report are culled from activist organizations, the arts, commercial establishments, education, government, the media and the workplace; acts of violence are also detailed. The commentary that follows [...]
Activist Organizations
2/9/94 Washington, DC – The League defended Pope John Paul II against attacks by a representative of a splinter group of Seventh Day Adventists on a local radio station. The sect had been sponsoring billboards in [...]
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2025 YEAR IN REVIEW
Michael P. McDonald As the cultural pendulum swung back towards tradition, reason, and faith, the Catholic League made significant contributions to the culture war in 2025. There are critical battles [...]
THE GERMAN CHRISTIAN CRACKUP
Lena Müller sports pink hair. She is not in the circus. No, she is a Berlin Protestant minister. She recently presided over a "poly wedding." To be specific, she "married" [...]
GERMAN BISHOPS SAY SEX IS NOT BINARY
The German Bishops' conference has issued a document to be implemented in Catholic schools that rejects the Church's teachings on sexuality. Gone is the teaching that there are but two [...]
MEET NYC’S NEW “SAFETY” ADVISOR
Bill Donohue Zohran Mamdani took over as mayor of New York City on January 1. In December, he chose someone just like himself—a unrepentant radical—to join his transition team, so [...]
