CARDINAL McCARRICK’S CROSS
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the news that credible and substantiated accusations of sexual molestation have been made against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, forcing him to resign from ministry: A little over a year [...]
WENDY’S MUST DROP SAMANTHA BEE
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the TBS show, "Full Frontal," starring Samantha Bee: We were happy to note last week that Verizon and P&G did not advertise on Samantha Bee's show of June [...]
POPE SAYS GAY COUPLES ARE NOT A FAMILY
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks by Pope Francis that have been censored by the media: Pope Francis says gay couples cannot be considered a family. The media know he said this but, [...]
PENNSYLVANIA GRAND JURY’S ANTI-CATHOLIC WITCH HUNT
Bill Donohue comments on a coming Pennsylvania grand jury report: Pennsylvania authorities are about to release a grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse of minors in six Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses. Activists and media are [...]
VIRGINIA SEX ED PROPOSAL REVISED
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the votes taken last night by a Virginia school board: The Fairfax County school board last night adopted a series of radical changes that had been proposed to [...]
BIG SPONSORS FLEE SAMANTHA BEE’S SHOW
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Samantha Bee's problems with sponsors: On June 8, I issued a news release, "Verizon and P&G Asked to Drop Samantha Bee." We provided email addresses so our followers [...]
VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD WEIGHS SEX ED CHANGES
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on proposed changes by a Virginia school board district: The Fairfax County school board will vote June 14 on a series of proposed changes to the sex education curriculum. [...]
TIME TO END BISHOPS’ PRIESTLY ABUSE AUDIT
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest report on priestly sexual abuse: In 2004, two years after the priestly sexual abuse scandal broke in the media, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop [...]
WILL VERIZON DROP ADS FOR BEE’S SHOW?
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the sponsors of the Samantha Bee TBS show, "Full Frontal": Newsbusters, the media monitoring arm of the Media Research Center, revealed last week that several sponsors of the [...]
MAJORITY OPPOSE ROE V. WADE
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the results of a new Gallup poll on abortion: In a survey released June 11, Gallup found that a majority of Americans, 53%, say abortion should be legal [...]
DOLORES GRIER—CHAMPION OF THE UNBORN
William A. Donohue On February 22, we lost a good one. Dolores Grier was one of the most committed Catholics I ever met, and one of the nation's strongest defenders of the rights of the [...]
LYING BY THE NUMBERS
Whenever there is a serious social problem, the media turn to experts to diagnose it and provide data. As it turns out, many of these persons are not experts at all—they are activists seeking to [...]
HAPPINESS ELUDES COLLEGE STUDENTS
William A. Donohue The most popular course at Yale these days—enrolling 1,200 students (they had to move the class to a huge building)—is called Psychology and the Good Life. It's not just Yale where courses [...]
BOSTON GLOBE REFUSES TO NAME ABUSERS
William A. Donohue The Boston Globe has been the most merciless attack dog in the media condemning the Catholic Church for the sexual abuse scandal. But when it comes to dealing with its own scandals, [...]
FREDERICK DOUGLASS’ BIGOTED SIDE
William A. Donohue In schools all across America, Frederick Douglass is known as a former slave who became one of the nation's leading abolitionists; he was also a champion of women's rights. Not so well [...]
NUDGING THE NEW YORK TIMES
William A. Donohue When the Catholic League objects to anti-Catholic art, we are routinely labeled censors by the artistic community, but when some of their liberal colleagues object to art that offends them—such as treating [...]
MONUMENT MADNESS
William A. Donohue We live in strange times. Never before in American history have there been fewer victims of oppression, yet never before have more Americans laid claim to victim status. This is especially true [...]
TRUMP WAS RIGHT TO BLAME BOTH SIDES
William A. Donohue President Trump was right to call out the extremists on both sides of the Charlottesville tragedy, but more needs to be said about those on the Left who helped to bring it [...]
RASH OF INCIVILITY HAS DEEP ROOTS
The lead story in this issue of Catalyst is disturbing on many fronts. The rash of incivility is bad enough, but the uneven response to these moral outrages is also a serious problem. The etiology [...]
MAINSTREAMING MEANNESS
William A. Donohue Tony Alamo died on May 2nd. Stephen Colbert made headline news on May 3rd. Bill Maher made headline news on May 5th. Dan Savage was back in the news at the same [...]
Suburban D.C. School System Changes ‘Biological Sex’ to ‘Sex Assigned at Birth’
Bill In The News (CNSNews.com): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, commented on the changes, writing in a column, “The list of changes reads like a page out of the gay rights agenda, so thoroughly [...]
Virginia Parents Overwhelmingly Reject Gender Ideology-Based Sex Ed
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in the United States, weighed in on the Fairfax County FLE advisory committee’s recommendation to omit clergy from [...]
Catholic League: SCOTUS Cakeshop Ruling Big Loss for ‘Gay Bullies’
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Catholic League president Bill Donohue said Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case was a “smashing victory for religious liberty” and a bruising defeat for [...]
Catholic League: Muslim-Run Nations ‘Crush’ Religious Liberty
Bill In The News (Breitbart): In most Muslim-majority nations, “religious liberty is either crushed altogether or it barely exists,” wrote Catholic League president Bill Donohue Monday. Commenting on the findings of the U.S. State Department’s [...]
Samantha Bee apologizes for Ivanka Trump remark as TV Academy shuts press out of ceremony honoring her
Bill In The News (Los Angeles Times): Catholic League President Bill Donohue issued a statement ahead of the ceremony, calling for Bee’s removal from the list of honorees. “The only social change she is inspiring [...]
Samantha Bee to Be Honored by TV Academy One Day After Calling Ivanka Trump ‘C**T’ on TBS
Bill In The News (CNSNews.com): Catholic League President Bill Donohue has issued a statement calling on the Television Academy to drop Bee from its honorees – and Americans to demand that it do so – [...]
Catholic League: Irish Central Celebrates Abortion, Just Like the Nazis
Bill In The News (CNSNews.com): Commenting on Irish Central news' support for legalizing abortion in Ireland and its comparison of the win to the "glorious" victory of gay marriage, Catholic League President Bill Donohue said the publication [...]
House chaplain controversy: Catholic group demands that Ryan’s chief of staff resign
Bill In the News (Journal Times, Racine WI): A Catholic organization is asking House Speaker Paul Ryan’s chief of staff to step down, alleging that he sent the House chaplain an email containing an anti-Catholic [...]
Catholic civil rights group calls for Ryan chief of staff to resign over alleged anti-Catholic remarks
Bill In the News (The Hill): A top Catholic civil rights group has called for Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) chief of staff to resign for allegedly making anti-Catholic remarks to the House chaplain when conveying Ryan's [...]
Catholic League calls for Ryan to fire his chief of staff over handling of House chaplain
Bill In the News (CNN): One of the nation's leading Catholic civil rights groups is calling for House Speaker Paul Ryan's chief of staff to resign after he allegedly made anti-Catholic comments to the House [...]
Special Reports
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 [...]
DONOHUE’S ROLE IN FBI-WEINER PROBE
Bill Donohue comments on his role in the FBI probe of Anthony Weiner: Two months ago to the day, I asked for an investigation of Anthony Weiner on suspicion of sexually abusing his four-year-old child, [...]
MOTHER TERESA EARNED SAINTHOOD
Bill Donohue explains why Mother Teresa deserves sainthood: On September 4, Blessed Mother Teresa will forever be known as Saint Mother Teresa. I know of no one in my lifetime, save for Saint John Paul [...]
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 [...]
SHINING THE LIGHT ON “SPOTLIGHT”
Bill Donohue The movie "Spotlight" is bound to spark more conversation about the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, much of what the American public knows about this issue is derived from the [...]
Annual Reports
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 [...]
Government
February 3 Gresham, OR – The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries found Aaron and Melissa Klein, who run a bakery, guilty of discrimination for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple [...]
Media
October 2 Roseburg, OR – Here is what Chris Harper-Mercer said to his victims just before he killed them at Umpqua Community College: "Are you Christian?" After they stood up he said, "Good, because you're [...]
Papal Visit
The most historic Catholic event of the year was Pope Francis' visit to the United States. While it occasioned much goodwill, and overall very fair media coverage, there were some notable exceptions. A selection will be [...]
Most Shared Posts
CARDINAL McCARRICK’S CROSS
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the news that credible and substantiated accusations of sexual molestation have been made against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, forcing him to resign from ministry: [...]
WENDY’S MUST DROP SAMANTHA BEE
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the TBS show, "Full Frontal," starring Samantha Bee: We were happy to note last week that Verizon and P&G did not advertise on [...]
POPE SAYS GAY COUPLES ARE NOT A FAMILY
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks by Pope Francis that have been censored by the media: Pope Francis says gay couples cannot be considered a family. The media [...]
Suburban D.C. School System Changes ‘Biological Sex’ to ‘Sex Assigned at Birth’
Bill In The News (CNSNews.com): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, commented on the changes, writing in a column, “The list of changes reads like a page out of the [...]
