Catholics are a quarter of the electorate, and they voted for President Barack Obama over Gov. Mitt Romney by the same margin as the total electorate, 50%-48%. Contrary to what many pundits said, this figure suggested that the bishops’ campaign for religious liberty, waged against the Health and Human Services mandate, actually paid off: Obama got [...]
In the wake of the election, practicing Catholics and Protestants of a traditional orientation were inundated with advice from their liberal brethren. The advice generally went like this: to win future elections, conservative Christians need to moderate their views on abortion, gay marriage, immigration, and other issues. In other words, they need to move left so [...]
M. Alex Johnson of NBC News and the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times were quite upset with the pro-Romney clergy leading up to the election. Yet, they had absolutely nothing to say about pro-Obama clergy members. Consider the facts. The Pew Research Center recently released its findings on this: “Black Protestants are twice as [...]
Jessica Lange is mostly known as King Kong’s girlfriend, though she has found a new life bashing nuns in the FX disaster, “American Horror Story: Asylum.” Joining with her recently was the ever sensitive Ellen DeGeneres, a woman who bravely stands up against gay bashing. But when it comes to bashing the Catholic Church, she is [...]
By Bill Donohue This article was originally published at Newsmax.com on December 19, 2013. The “War on Christmas” began in earnest in the 1980s when the American Civil Liberties Union was filing one lawsuit after another attempting to ban manger scenes on public property. In the 1990s, the Christmas wars morphed into the multicultural agenda of [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Christmas vandals: Every year at Christmastime, incidents of vandalism are rampant, and while this year was not as bad as last year, there still were too many instances. The following towns and cities were hit by vandals this year: Birmingham, AL; Madison, AL; Live Oak, CA; Longmont, CA; San [...]
On Saturday, October 27, Bill Donohue gave the keynote address at the 20th anniversary of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists on Long Island. Donohue spoke about his new book, Why Catholicism Matters. Father Philip Eichner, the chairman of the Catholic League’s board of directors, opened the conference on October 26 and spoke on “Marianist Pedagogy [...]
Kenneth D. Whitehead James Hitchcock, History of the Catholic Church: From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium, Ignatius Press. This is a book that we have needed for a good while now: it is a one-volume history of the Catholic Church which goes back to the very beginning and brings everything up to date. We [...]
Raymond Arroyo, New York Times best-selling author and host of EWTN’s “The World Over,” had a chance to preview “Les Misérables.” This incredible movie opens on Christmas Day. Arroyo, who is a member of the Catholic League’s board of directors, offered the following comments on the film: “Tom Hooper’s bold ‘Les Misérables’ is not just a [...]
Click here to see the December 17, 2012 Catholic League ad on the op-ed page in the New York Times.
