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
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 with them. The latest example is cable news commentator Joy Reid. Her MSNBC show was thrown off the air earlier this [...]
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 seems to die. Survey data back this up. It is true that Americans are less religious today than they have been [...]
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 insurance coverage and service, and to pay our claims fairly and quickly.” That’s how it describes its organizational culture. Anyone who [...]
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: I like cops and he hates them. This wouldn’t mean much if he never left his Brooklyn College classroom. But now [...]
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 marriage and the family as positive goods than liberals are. It is therefore not surprising to learn that “a majority of [...]
