MENORAH PULLED FROM CO-OP LOBBY—AGAIN!
Bill Donohue The attempt to discriminate against Christians at a cooperative apartment complex in Westchester County, New York failed. Those who run the cooperative allowed the display of a menorah in the common area, but [...]
JIMMY LAI “FOUND” GUILTY
Bill Donohue Catholic human rights champion, Jimmy Lai, has been “found” guilty by a three-judge Hong Kong court—there was no jury—of conspiring to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. The 78-year old [...]
CENSORING CHRISTMAS IN KANSAS CITY
The City Manager in Kansas City, Missouri has banned the display of a crèche and a menorah in City Hall. To read Bill Donohue’s letter to him, click here. Contact City Manager Mario Vasquez: [email protected]
JOY REID INVENTS RACISM
Bill Donohue Nothing hurts the cause of fighting racism more than false accusations of it. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of people who claim to have found racism where none exists; higher education is loaded [...]
RELIGION IN USA SHOWS POCKETS OF OPTIMISM
Bill Donohue Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith is the author of Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America. Of course, the demise of religion has long been predicted, yet it never [...]
CHUBB INSURANCE VIOLATES ITS MISSION
Bill Donohue Chubb Insurance is the largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company in the world, valued at approximately $115 billion. “We stand behind the promises we make to conceive, craft and deliver exceptional [...]
MAMDANI’S COP-HATING “SAFETY” HIRE
Bill Donohue Alex Vitale and I have some things in common: we both have doctorates in sociology, have taught courses on criminology, and have written extensively on the subject. But that’s where the similarities end: [...]
CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIAL ISOLATION
Bill Donohue The Institute for Family Studies recently published the results of a survey on “The Decline in Marriage and Childbearing Among Progressives.” It found that conservative men and women are more likely to view [...]
TWO FACES OF CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION
Bill Donohue As 2025 comes to a close, it is sad to note that Christians are being persecuted in many countries, the extent of which is deeply troubling. There are two faces to this crisis: [...]
NATIVITY SCENE ERECTED IN CENTRAL PARK
Bill Donohue Today, the Catholic League erected a life-size nativity scene in Central Park. It is located on 59th St. and 5th Avenue, at the Grand Army Plaza, across from the Plaza Hotel. We received [...]
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. [...]
TAKING STOCK IN ABORTION DATA
William A. Donohue Those who are pro-life, as the readers of Catalyst surely are, refuse to take comfort in data that indicate a decline in abortions. That's understandable. But there is a difference between taking [...]
SELECTIVE SENSIBILITIES
William A. Donohue Almost 8 in 10 Americans are Christian and approximately 96 percent celebrate Christmas. That makes for few Scrooges, though one would never know it given the corrosive effect that militant atheist groups, [...]
GAYS AND GAY ACTIVISTS
William A. Donohue According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1.6 percent of Americans are homosexual. Yet that very small minority projects an influence on our culture that is extraordinary. A few years back, gay [...]
THE POLITICS OF THE ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE
William A. Donohue When I became president of the Catholic League in 1993, there was no Catholic League unit in New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade. That soon changed. For the past 20 years we [...]
THE POWER OF HOPE AND PRAYER
William A. Donohue Lately, as the result of a new book I am finishing, I have given a lot of thought to the power of hope and prayer. So when I heard about the travails [...]
FREE SPEECH UNDER FIRE
William A. Donohue Over and over again, I have said that I would prefer to suffer the indignity of having my religion trashed before endorsing the right of the government to censor the offensive speech. [...]
THE MYTH OF DIVERSITY
William A. Donohue The greatest threat to freedom these days comes not from neo-Nazis, or from any other group on the lunatic fringe: it comes from those who tout the virtue of diversity. Unfortunately, they [...]
Catholic League Hits MSNBC for Smearing Christians
Bill in the News (Newsmax): Catholic League President Bill Donohue on Wednesday slammed MSNBC for "recent anti-Christian attacks" by network hosts and guests, calling for a "vigorous network response." In a letter to MSNBC President [...]
Catholic League Forum: 2023 Year in Review
In this episode of Catholic League Forum Catholic League president Bill Donohue and director of communications Mike McDonald give an overview of the 2023 Year in Review highlighting the major victories the League has had [...]
Catholic Grief and Faithful Shepherds in Death and Exile
Catholic League in the News (Beyond These Stone Walls): Four of my dozen posts about the injustices that befell Cardinal Pell were written in 2023. One of them became recommended reading by the Catholic League [...]
NET-TV’s “Currents News”
Bill in the News (Currents News): Bill Donohue discusses the Catholic League's Christmas billboard in Times Square on NET-TV's "Currents News." To watch, click here.
“The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”
Bill Donohue on true religious diversity & the latest cultural assaults on Christmas. To watch , click here.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ACLU
Bill in the News (First Things): Bill Donohue, famous today as the head of the Catholic League, as a young man obtained his PhD in sociology at New York University with a dissertation on the [...]
Albertville drag show planned despite national protest
Bill in the News (WAFF48): Catholic League President Bill Donohue says events like this go against religious teachings and laws of nature. “Our biology is really at work here. They’re trying to erase the idea [...]
POPE FRANCIS THANKS NOTORIOUS LGBT ACTIVIST FOR HIS ‘MINISTRY’
Bill in the News (Breitbart): According to Catholic League president Bill Donohue, Zerkowski “is the head of the ‘LGBTQ Outreach Community’ for the Diocese of Lexington, and the leader of Fortunate Families, another queer dissident [...]
Ten Prescriptions for a Strong Family
Bill in the News (CatholicLink): In my book, War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream, I point out that Asians, Jews, Mormons and Nigerians are the most successful demographic groups [...]
US Catholics Disturbed by Pope Francis on Same-Sex Unions, Synod Plans
Bill in the News (Newsmax): The pope's reply, he told Newsmax, "has not changed matters. After he begins his response with a straightforward summary of church teachings, he uses words and terms such as 'but,' [...]
Special Reports
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 [...]
“Angels & Demons”
Special Report by William Donohue March 2009 Click here to read the booklet, "Angels & Demons: More Demonic Than Angelic."
Bill Maher’s Bigotry
"I have hated the Church way before anyone else." -Bill Maher, May 8, 2002 on "Politically Incorrect" Bill Maher is America's Biggest Bigot. How do we know? Consider the following: Bill Maher, comedian and famed [...]
Obama and Infanticide
2008 "When he was in the state senate, Barack Obama worked hard against a bill that would provide health care for a baby who survived an abortion…. This is called 'selective infanticide'.... There’s been a [...]
Golden Compass: Agenda Unmasked
Fall/Winter 2007 Click here to access the Catholic League's booklet "The Golden Compass: Agenda Unmasked. Watch a video of the Catholic League's Bill Donohue discussing this issue here. A film called "The Golden Compass" opens December 7. It is [...]
Child Molestation by Homosexuals and Heterosexuals
Special Report by Brian W. Clowes and David L. Sonnier May 2005 Click here to view article.
Annual Reports
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
When 2011 began, we did not expect that we would spend a disproportionate amount of time addressing attacks on the Catholic Church stemming from charges of clergy sexual abuse. But we did. Consider how this [...]
ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS
January 24 Colorado Springs, CO – The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) filed a lawsuit against the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) because they scheduled a prayer luncheon on February 10. The Superintendent of [...]
THE ARTS
January Panel discussions were held in several American cities and in Europe discussing the 2010 decision of the Smithsonian to remove a vile video from the National Portrait Gallery that the Catholic League had objected [...]
BUSINESS/WORKPLACE
February 22 Hilliard, OH – A statue of the Virgin Mary that had been kept in front of a resident’s condo for ten years was ordered to be removed by The Hilliard Village Association. It [...]
EDUCATION
February 17 Davis, CA – The University of California at Davis decided to back away from a school policy that would identify religious discrimination as “The loss of power and privilege to those who do [...]
GOVERNMENT
February 23 Washington, D.C. – Attorney General Eric Holder wrote a letter to members of Congress announcing President Obama’s decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, stating that it was unconstitutional. The president, [...]
MEDIA
Media Response to John Jay Report On May 18, we addressed what the media said about the 2011 John Jay Report on the “Causes and Context” of clergy abuse. Bill Donohue’s analysis of the report is [...]
ATTACK ON BISHOP FINN
Beginning late October, we rallied behind Kansas City-St. Joseph Bishop Robert Finn with vigor: we saturated the community with an ad that the Kansas City Star rejected for political reasons. Indeed, we hit virtually every Catholic church, [...]
WAR ON CHRISTMAS
WAR ON CHRISTMAS November Bellevue, WA – Shortly after Thanksgiving, Bob McLean, a United States Postal Service letter carrier, was taken off his route by his supervisor because someone complained about his Santa Clause uniform. [...]
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS January 20 The president of Al-Azhar, an Egyptian university, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, along with the leading members of the Islamic Research Academy, announced they were breaking off dialogue with the Vatican in response to [...]
Most Shared Posts
WHY MENTAL HEALTH IS NOT GETTING BETTER
Bill Donohue If ever there were a decided secular bias that is evident in our culture, it’s the way elites continue to address mental health and wellbeing. They just don’t [...]
MOTHER’S DAY FOUNDER WAS QUITE A GAL
Bill Donohue The founder of Mother’s Day was one for the books. The day she founded she later sought to abolish, largely because she disapproved of the way families came [...]
ANTI-ISRAEL MOB THREATENS NYC JEWS
Bill Donohue On May 5, a mob of 100 anti-Israel protesters showed up outside the same Manhattan synagogue that 200 of them descended upon last November. Many of the radical [...]
Catholic Connection
Bill Donohue talks the DOJ's new report on eradicating anti-Christian bias in federal government on EWTN's “Catholic Connection With Teresa Tomeo.” To listen, click here.
