BARRETT WILL BE SPARED BIGOTED HEARING
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the upcoming hearings on President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court: It now looks like President Trump will nominate Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy on the [...]
NYC FAILS TO VET PERVERTS
How did a sexual abuser in a high-ranking job in the New York City Department of Education get by investigators? How can this happen when New York State lawmakers claim to be outraged about the [...]
CATHOLIC NOMINEES TO HIGH COURT FACE BIAS
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Senate Democrats who will vote on the next nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court: According to multiple news reports, the two leading candidates to fill the opening on [...]
PELOSI WANTS TO KEEP CHURCHES CLOSED
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Rep. Nancy Pelosi's position on the reopening of churches: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wants to stop Catholics from attending Mass. She took this position after San [...]
FEC CHAIRMAN IS WRONG ABOUT THE BISHOPS
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks made by the head of the Federal Election Commission: Trey Trainor, the chairman of the Federal Election Commission, is accusing the bishops of refusing to partake in [...]
WHY IS FOX NEWS PROTECTING GEORGE SOROS?
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Fox News and George Soros: On September 16, Newt Gingrich was cut off the air on a Fox News show, "Outnumbered," for merely mentioning the role that George [...]
NETFLIX MERITS DOJ PROBE
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Cuties, the French film featured on Netflix: Cuties is wrong on every level. It is soft-core child porn masquerading as a coming-of-age story. According to Bernadette Brady-Egan, the [...]
TEXAS A&M PROF DIGS DEEPER HOLE
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the Texas A&M professor who is under fire for his anti-Catholicism: Yesterday, I wrote to Texas A&M University President Michael K. Young about the incredibly anti-Catholic social media [...]
TEXAS A&M PROFESSOR’S HATE SPEECH CANNOT STAND
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a Texas A&M professor: Anti-Catholicism on our nation's campuses is nothing new, but there is an anthropology professor at Texas A&M University, Filipe Castro, who has gone beyond [...]
CATHOLIC AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIFFER ON OPENING
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the new school year: For the most part, Catholic schools across the nation have opened normally. For the most part, public schools across the nation have opened abnormally [...]
THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER
William A. Donohue Over the summer, Raymond Arroyo interviewed me a couple of times on his EWTN show, "The World Over." On one occasion he asked me what I thought about Black Lives Matter. "There [...]
THE BANE OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS
William A. Donohue "Confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others." That dictionary definition of self-righteousness aptly describes the way so many people have behaved [...]
THE CRACKUP OF THE CHATTERING CLASS
William A. Donohue For almost four decades, I have given countless interviews to reporters and have appeared on thousands of television and radio shows. Most of the people I have met have been wonderful; others [...]
THE POWER OF PRAYER
William A. Donohue The coronavirus pandemic led to thousands of deaths, overrun mortuaries, untold suffering, burnt-out hospital staff, economic hardship, and psychological distress. It also gave millions a time to renew their faith, or come [...]
ABORTION’S SATANIC TOUCH
Animals have no rights—they cannot be held morally responsible for their behavior—but they certainly deserve our respect. Indeed, those who abuse them should be punished: animal cruelty should never be tolerated. It should be axiomatic [...]
THE REAL WHITE-BLACK DIVIDE
What separates whites and blacks the most these days is not race or class, it's religion. But don't expect to hear this from commentators or scholars. That's because most of them are well-educated white people, [...]
MEDIA MAKE UP DIRT THEY CANNOT FIND
A recent NBC poll of Catholics who work for the Church found that 64 percent do not believe the media have been fair in their coverage of the clergy sexual abuse scandal. If you want [...]
GEORGETOWN’S PITIFUL CONFERENCE ON ABUSE
William A. Donohue In November, a report was released based on the proceedings of a Georgetown University event that took place in June. Titled, "National Convening on Lay Leadership for a Wounded Church and Divided [...]
JOURNALISTIC MALPRACTICE
William A. Donohue In early October, within a period of 24 hours, two prominent secular media outlets, and one prominent religious media outlet, ran stories on the Catholic Church that were classic examples of journalistic [...]
MISSOURI AG PLAYS POLITICS
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has issued a 185-page report on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church committed by priests, deacons, seminarians, and nuns. The Attorney General's office reviewed more than 2,000 files on priests [...]
Supreme Court favorite Judge Amy Coney Barrett Faces Renewed Attention for Religious Affiliation
Bill In The News (ABC News): Catholic League President Bill Donohue fights back against "'Catholic-baiting tactic' [that] cast doubt on Barrett’s fitness as a federal judge." READ MORE HERE
Democrats’ ‘Norm’ Is Brutalizing The Reputations Of Republican Court Nominees
Bill In The News (The Federalist): Catholic League President Bill Donohue highlights past examples of Sen. Feinstein's anti-Catholic comments. READ MORE HERE
Judge’s faith becomes early flashpoint in Supreme Court fight
Bill In The News (The American Dossier): Catholic League President Bill Donohue warns that the Catholic League “will be watching [the Supreme court confirmation fight] carefully” for any traces of anti-Catholicism. READ MORE HERE
Judge’s faith becomes early flashpoint in Supreme Court fight
Bill In The News (Politico): Catholic League President Bill Donohue warns that the Catholic League "will be watching [the Supreme court confirmation fight] carefully" for any traces of anti-Catholicism. READ MORE HERE
Can GOP Use SCOTUS Fav to Peel Off Biden’s Catholic Support?
Bill In The News (Daily Beast): Catholic League President Bill Donohue "call[s] on no fewer than five members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to recuse themselves from voting on" Amy Coney Barrett or Barbara Lagoa. [...]
CatholicVote Launches $9.7 Million Campaign Against Biden in Swing States
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Catholic League President Bill Donohue comments on Harris' "radical support for abortion rights as well as her out-right 'anti-Catholicism.'" READ MORE HERE
Are Biden-Harris Anti-Catholics?
Bill In The News (Newsmax): Catholic League President Bill Donohue comments on how "Harris has tainted herself 'with the brush of anti-Catholicism.'" READ MORE HERE
Four Ways the Obama-Biden-Harris Team Has Attacked Catholics
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Catholic League President Bill Donohue discusses differences between Biden and Trump on religious liberty and emphasizes "that not all issues are weighed equally by the Church." READ MORE HERE
Catholic League: Joe Biden Doubles Down on Abortion
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Catholic League President Bill Donohue points out how “Pro-life Democrats tried to persuade Joe Biden and the leadership of the Democratic Party to soften their language on abortion rights... But [...]
Franklin Graham Decries Total ‘Absence of God’ in Democrat Convention
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Catholic League President Bill Donohue notes open hostility on the left toward people of faith, “none of the Democratic candidates wants to be tagged as religion-friendly.” READ MORE HERE
Special Reports
REFUTACIÓN DEL INFORME DEL GRAN JURADO DE PENNSYLVANIA
Bill Donohue, Ph.D. Presidente Liga Católica para los Derechos Civiles y Religiosos 16 de agosto de 2018 A diferencia de la mayoría de los comentaristas y reporteros, he leído la mayor parte del informe del [...]
PENNSYLVANIA GRAND JURY REPORT DEBUNKED
Bill Donohue, Ph.D. President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights August 16, 2018 Unlike most commentators and reporters, I have read most of the Pennsylvania grand jury report. The purpose of this statement is [...]
The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse
To read Bill Donohue's analysis of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church that appeared in an international social science journal, click here.
NYS CHILD VICTIMS ACT IS FLAWED
Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains the flaws in the Child Victims Act, a measure included in this year's budget by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. It is being widely distributed to lawmakers, bishops, and [...]
PRESS CONFERENCE ON “JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA”
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an anti-Christian play that previews on January 23: On January 23, "Jerry Springer: The Opera," a New Group production, will preview at the Pershing Square Signature Center, an [...]
SEXUAL DEVIANTS AND ENABLERS – PARTS I & II
PART I MEN ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WHO HAVE A RECORD OF ANTI-CATHOLIC OFFENSES ENTERTAINMENT: Ben Affleck—After speaking out against Weinstein, the Oscar winner became the subject of his own sex assault narrative [...]
THE WAR AGAINST CARDINAL PELL
Bill Donohue, Ph.D. President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights July 20, 2017 Meet the Accusers Cardinal George Pell's appearance before a Melbourne court on July 26 will be watched carefully all over the [...]
SNAP IMPLODES
Bill Donohue The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) has been sued before, and while it has been hurt by those filings, the latest one suggests the end is near. It can't come [...]
BBC, CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND SEXUAL ABUSE
Bill Donohue has written an in-depth analysis of sexual abuse at the BBC, and the BBC’s coverage of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. He explains the similarities and dissimilarities, focusing on why the scandals [...]
When the Pope Tried to Kill Hitler
Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling Basic Books, New York, 2015 375 pages, $29.99. Ronald J. Rychlak Pope Pius XII and the Nazis: far too many writers have wandered [...]
Annual Reports
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS: 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW
Bill Donohue When the year began, I was anxiously awaiting an opportunity to defend the Catholic Church in one of those storied debates sponsored by the Oxford Union. The debate was scheduled for February. But [...]
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW Bill Donohue Victory is sweet, even if it takes what seems like an eternity to secure. In January, we protested the most obscene anti-Catholic [...]
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS: 2017 YEAR IN REVIEW
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS: 2017 YEAR IN REVIEW Bill Donohue "The election of Donald Trump may signal a change for the better on religious liberty issues. We will know in due course." [...]
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2016 YEAR IN REVIEW
Bill Donohue Twenty years ago, I wrote that "the most invidious form of anti-Catholicism is that which emanates from elite circles." I also noted that "there is also a brand of anti-Catholicism that comes from [...]
PREFACE
By any index, we had a very good year in 2015. That is largely due to our employees, and to our members who make it happen. We are fortunate to have a very competent staff. [...]
Executive Summary
The Catholic event of the year—at least for Americans—was also the Catholic League event of the year, namely, the pope's historic visit to Washington, D.C., New York City, and Philadelphia. Pope Francis electrified the nation, [...]
Activist Organizations
January In 2013, Rebecca Randles, an attorney who works with supreme Catholic-suing lawyer Jeffrey Anderson, sued Bill Donohue and the Catholic League for allegedly libeling a man who had made accusations against a priest in [...]
The Arts
March Grants Pass, OR – Jim Ingraham's picture was selected as the Caveman Camera Club's image of the month for March. Given the theme of "contradiction,'' Ingraham shot a photograph he titled "Bad Nun." The [...]
Charlie Hebdo Controversy
A week into the new year saw the horrible death of 12 people, most of whom worked at the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo; a police officer was among the dead. The weekly publication is [...]
Education
February 9 Yulee, FL – A student at Yulee High School ended the school's morning announcement with "God Bless America." This caused the American Humanist Association to contact the school and the Nassau County School [...]
Most Shared Posts
BARRETT WILL BE SPARED BIGOTED HEARING
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the upcoming hearings on President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court: It now looks like President Trump will nominate Amy Coney Barrett to [...]
Supreme Court favorite Judge Amy Coney Barrett Faces Renewed Attention for Religious Affiliation
Bill In The News (ABC News): Catholic League President Bill Donohue fights back against "'Catholic-baiting tactic' [that] cast doubt on Barrett’s fitness as a federal judge." READ MORE HERE
Democrats’ ‘Norm’ Is Brutalizing The Reputations Of Republican Court Nominees
Bill In The News (The Federalist): Catholic League President Bill Donohue highlights past examples of Sen. Feinstein's anti-Catholic comments. READ MORE HERE
Judge’s faith becomes early flashpoint in Supreme Court fight
Bill In The News (The American Dossier): Catholic League President Bill Donohue warns that the Catholic League “will be watching [the Supreme court confirmation fight] carefully” for any traces of [...]
