Michael P. McDonald, Director of Communications For the PDF version, click here. As the cultural pendulum swung back towards tradition, reason, and faith, the Catholic League made significant contributions to the culture war in 2025. There are critical battles still raging, but we gained significant ground this year. As a parting gift, Joe Biden would give [...]
The Catholic League’s 2025 Year in Review is now available. It contains an overview of some of our most important battles and victories over the last year. To read it, click here.
Unsurprisingly, in-coming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stacked his inaugural committee with hard-core leftists, many of whom have no use for Catholics and Jews. Here’s a look at some of his choice picks. Alvaro Lopez—NYC Democratic Socialists of America Lopez is a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) electoral organizer. He has been heavily involved [...]
After Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race, he chose quite a number of people to work on his transition team. This is a list of some of his more prominent appointees, many of whom will likely be given a job in his administration, starting January 1. Not all of these people are of [...]
Bill Donohue This Christmas we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of our nativity scene in Central Park. I vividly remember, as do Bernadette Brady-Egan, our VP, and Alex Mejia, our Director of Data Services, what happened on December 19, 1995. Here is what I said about it on December 14, 2015. “In 1995, when we displayed [...]
Kyle Nazareth As Catholics prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ, America faces record-low marriage and birth rates that expose the anti-family biases embedded in secular culture. Bowling Green State University’s National Center for Family & Marriage Research reports that the U.S. marriage rate in 2022 fell to its lowest level on record, 54 percent below [...]
Bill Donohue It is an understatement to say that the Catholic League will miss Cardinal Timothy Dolan—he is a very special man. He always fought for justice, and his amiable character won the applause of Catholics and non-Catholics alike. He was certainly very kind to me. We met for the first time on April 15, 2009, [...]
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 not a nativity scene. They failed because we intervened. What makes this story so bizarre is that the same issue took [...]
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 journalist and businessman had spent over four years in solitary confinement for “destabilizing” the ruling party. Judge Esther Toh said, “There [...]
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: Mario.Vasquez@kcmo.org
