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CHURCH MALIGNED IN CANADA AND USA
Bill Donohue In the 1980s, Jeane Kirkpatrick, foreign policy advisor to President Ronald Reagan and the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was fond of saying that the critics of the United States always blame [...]
ANTI-CATHOLIC HALLOWEEN COSTUMES: A TALE OF THE FETISHIZED AND MACABRE
Michael P. McDonald Halloween should be a time for youthful joy when children don fanciful costumes and collect candy. Unfortunately, because of the endless adolescence of so many adults, it has morphed into a night [...]
ILLITERATE SOCIOLOGISTS HATE JEWS
Bill Donohue Hating Jews is now the number-one sport in the world among left-wing activists. They may say they don’t hate Jews—it’s Israeli policies they find detestable. Don’t believe them: They hate Jews. Here’s the [...]
NEW HOUSE SPEAKER’S RELIGION ALREADY AN ISSUE
Bill Donohue No sooner had Rep. Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, been elected Speaker of the House when his Christian religion became an issue for some in the media. In England, The Guardian, the [...]
POPE THANKS CATHOLIC DISSIDENT FOR HIS WORK
Bill Donohue Is anyone at the Vatican vetting the pope’s mail, including emails, or doing a little digging to find out if the letter writers are using him for their own agenda? A Catholic News [...]
CHURCH IDEOLOGUES NEVER LEARN
Bill Donohue How ironic it is that those who boast how open-minded they typically prove to be the most intolerant. Indeed, they are more likely to be die-hard ideologues who have made up their mind [...]
MICK JAGGER’S FILTHY NUN SKIT ON “SNL”
Bill Donohue Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger is an old man, but the octogenarian proved on “Saturday Night Live” that his obscene legacy is still extant. He played the role of an imposter male nun, [...]
BIDEN’S LGBT LOVE FEST
Bill Donohue On October 14, President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden addressed their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender friends at the Washington Center in the nation’s capital. It was one of the most dishonest, [...]
POPE WELCOMES CATHOLIC DISSIDENTS
Bill Donohue Yesterday, Pope Francis welcomed Catholic dissidents who have previously been condemned by U.S. cardinals and bishops. He met for almost an hour with Sister Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of New Ways Ministry (NWM). (When [...]
WAR IS UGLY; NOT RESPONDING IS UGLIER
Bill Donohue “Witness to War: World Trade Center Bombing.” That was the title of the lead story in the October 2001 edition of Catalyst. I made a personal statement about what we witnessed that day: [...]
ABORTION KILLS, USUALLY
William A. Donohue Melissa Ohden should have died in 1977, but the abortion failed. On September 9, 2015, the founder of Abortion Survivors Network testified before the House Judiciary Committee to explain her story. I [...]
NO “SPOTLIGHT” ON HOLLYWOOD CHILD RAPE
William A. Donohue In the run-up to the November 6 debut of "Spotlight," movie reviewers hailed it as an eye-opening account of the sexual abuse scandal that occurred in the Boston Archdiocese. But Hollywood has [...]
PLAYBOY DECLARES VICTORY
William A. Donohue [Editor's note: This is a slightly longer version of an article that first appeared online at Newsmax.] If they want to keep their jobs, the girls at Playboy have to put their [...]
DISOBEYING THE LAW
William A. Donohue Is it ever right to disobey the law in a democracy? This question has been raised a lot lately, especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. [...]
POPE’S VISIT RIPE FOR PROPAGANDA
William A. Donohue Propaganda experts are already out in force and Pope Francis has yet to come to the U.S. Propaganda is the deliberate skewing of information done for the purpose of altering public opinion [...]
MOTHER ANGELICA’S GREATEST GIFT
William A. Donohue Mother Angelica built the most powerful Catholic media empire in American history, one so towering that it really has no rival anywhere in the world. The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) is, [...]
WHO UNDERVALUES WOMEN?
William A. Donohue We hear it all the time: the Catholic Church discriminates against women. As compared to which institutions? The Congress? Women comprise 18 percent of its members. Fortune 500 companies? Women account for [...]
MARKETS AND MISSILES ARE NOT ENOUGH
William A. Donohue When I first arrived at The Heritage Foundation in 1987, I was greeted with great skepticism by many who worked there. The D.C. conservative think-tank had chosen me to be in the [...]
THE MORALITY OF DOCTOR-ASSISTED SUICIDE
William A. Donohue This article, which has been slightly revised, was published in the February edition of Legatus magazine. If there was one strain of political thought that was evident in the elections last November, [...]
BEHIND THE CHARLIE HEBDO STORY
William A. Donohue To say 2015 got off to a fast start would be an understatement: it seemed that all I did was grant one interview after another, running from one TV studio to another. [...]
“Federalist Radio Hour”
Bill in the News ("Federalist Radio Hour"): Bill discusses his new book, War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream, with Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky on the "Federalist Radio Hour." [...]
“The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”
Bill Donohue talks about his new book War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream with Raymond Arroyo. To watch click here.
“Respect Life Radio”
Bill in the News ("Respect Life Radio"): Bill Donohue discusses his new book, War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream, with Deacon Geoff Bennett on "Respect Life Radio." To listen [...]
Catholic Civil Rights Leader Requests Nashville Police Department Release Covenant Killer’s Manifesto
Bill in the News: (The Tennessee Star) “So where’s the manifesto?” Donohue asked. “Who’s holding it back? What’s driving this decision?” The leader of the Catholic civil rights organization cited a report Thursday that Representative [...]
Trump, DeSantis each head for New Hampshire
Bill in the News (Washington Times): A new book has arrived with a telling title: “War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class Is Killing the American Dream.” The author is Bill Donohue, president and CEO of [...]
“Vocal Point” with Jerry Newcombe
Bill in the News ("Vocal Point" with Jerry Newcombe): Founding father John Adams once said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any [...]
“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 [...]
Special Reports
OBAMA’S WAR ON RELIGION
Bill Donohue In September 2012, Bill Donohue wrote a four-part series that was featured on Newsmax.com. The series focused on the war on religion that has been waged by the administration of President Barack Obama. [...]
Some Key Misunderstandings Regarding the Child Sexual Abuse Scandal and the Catholic Church
Some Key Misunderstandings Regarding the Child Sexual Abuse Scandal and the Catholic Church William O’Donohue, Ph.D. Olga Cirlugea, B.A. Lorraine Benuto, Ph.D. Department of Psychology University of Nevada, Reno We are clinical psychologists (the second [...]
STATEMENT TO THE DULUTH COMMUNITY: UNIV. OF MINNESOTA DULUTH HOLOCAUST EVENT
Dr. William A. Donohue President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights April 10, 2012 It has come to my attention that the University of Minnesota Duluth is hosting a series of events on the [...]
SNAP UNRAVELS
Bill Donohue President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights At the end of 2011, a Missouri judge ordered David Clohessy, the president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), to be [...]
ROLLING STONE GETS UGLY: VILE HIT ON PHILLY ARCHDIOCESE
Special Report by Bill Donohue The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church provides grist for the mill to those who harbor an animus against it, so a certain amount of cheap shots are to [...]
SNAP EXPOSED: UNMASKING THE SURVIVORS NETWORK OF THOSE ABUSED BY PRIESTS
Special Report by William Donohue August 22, 2011 The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) held a national conference in Washington, D.C., July 8-10. This report details what happened. Over the past decade, Catholics [...]
John Jay 2011 Study on Sexual Abuse: A Critical Analysis
Special Report by Bill Donohue May 24, 2011 Click here to read Bill Donohue's analysis of the 2011 John Jay Report on the "Causes and Context" of clergy sex abuse.
Response to CNN Documentary on the Pope
Special Report by William A. Donohue, Ph.D. September 28, 2010 The CNN documentary, "What the Pope Knew," which aired September 25, deserves a response. The program begins with music and graphics that set the tone: those [...]
Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience
November 20, 2009 Preamble Christians are heirs of a 2,000-year tradition of proclaiming God’s word, seeking justice in our societies, resisting tyranny, and reaching out with compassion to the poor, oppressed and suffering. While fully [...]
Emulating the European Model: Prescription for Failure
Special Report by Bill Donohue September 2009 To say the Obama administration is enamored of the European model would be an understatement—it positively adores it. That’s why the “Change You Can Believe In” crowd is in [...]
Annual Reports
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. [...]
MEDIA
MEDIA RESPONSE TO VATICAN INQUIRY OF LCWR Once again, an internal matter of the Catholic Church became fodder for media voyeurs, pundits and talking heads when a number of dissident nuns became the subject of [...]
HHS MANDATE TARGETS CATHOLICS
This year, for the first time in American history, the federal government waged war on the First Amendment rights of Roman Catholics. When the healthcare bill was being considered, the Obama administration said it would [...]
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Joe Biden: Climate Change Is ‘More Consequential’ Than Nuclear War
Bill in the News (Breitbart): “On Friday, Catholic League President Bill Donohue pointed out that the president’s assessment of the problems facing the nation is wildly out of sync with [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]