“The Catholic League called Mr. Oliphant ‘one of the most viciously anti-Catholic cartoonists ever to have disgraced the pages of American newspapers.’ The New York Times, The Washington Post and other papers declined to run the priest-pedophilia cartoon on the web or in print. The Troy (N.Y.) Record apologized for publishing the drawing on its editorial page.”

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Bill Donohue

It is one thing to disagree with those who hold to contrary political views, quite another to label them crazy. Doing so should not be done with abandon, lest it diminish the credibility of the accuser. But these days, there is no shortage of public office holders, and candidates for public office, who sound more like the inmates in the asylum than they do serious persons.

Two such characters are Abdul El-Sayed and James Talarico; the former is seeking a senatorial seat in Michigan, and the latter wants to be a U.S. senator from Texas. Both are Democrats who suffer from a Manichean worldview that is pathological.

El-Sayed divides the world with childlike innocence, distinguishing between the good guys and the bad guys. What makes him different is who he defines as good and who he defines as bad.

The good guys are criminals and the bad guys are the cops. “Any and all efforts to get people out of jails and prisons and to keep people out of jails and prisons is a policy that we need to be investing in.” This obviously would include mass murderers and child rapists.

The bad guys are those who lock these people up. He says most cities “spend way too much on police departments” and not enough on such things as public schools that “eliminate poverty.” In fact, we spend a pittance on the police and a small fortune on the public schools, most of which—at least in the inner-city—are incubators of poverty. The urban schools that deliver for poor minorities—charter schools and Catholic schools—he opposes.

The good guys are also those who crash our borders and the bad guys are those trying to round them up. “There is no reforming, there is no retraining, there is only abolishing ICE.”

In his mind, both terrorists and their victims are morally wrong. “Hamas: evil. Israeli government: evil.” This is worse than moral equivalency—it is morally irresponsible to equate those who intentionally kill innocents with those who seek to deter them.

Talarico’s black-and-white Manichean dualism expresses itself in a peculiar form of self-loathing.

“I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity, right?” Now it is not normal to turn inward on one’s self, and to do so in public is even more bizarre. For him, however, it is a way of showing the world how “open-minded” he is. By attacking his personal bona fides, he is assuming a moral mantle reserved for himself. How pathetic.

“God is non-binary” and “there are six genders.” He has since taken back these comments, but the real issue is why he felt obliged to say them in the first place. He did so because, again, he wants to show open-minded he is, hoping to impress secularists.

He said a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in the public schools was “deeply un-Christian.” More open-mindedness. Imagine a Muslim objecting to a display of the Koran in a public library because it is “deeply un-Islamic.”

His fawning of Muslims even allows him to lie about history. To wit: he maintains that Christianity—not Islam—is the “most violent” religion.

What do El-Sayed and Talarico want? They want to turn America inside out and upside down. Their hatred extends beyond our borders—they loathe Western civilization. But unlike radicals of yesteryear, who at least had a blueprint—however flawed—to remake society, they are more like little boys who are so dumbfounded by Erector Sets that all they can do is take a hammer to them.

These are the neo-nihilists of the Democratic Party in 2026.

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Georgetown University have established a very tight relationship. In this episode of “Catholic League Report” president Bill Donohue and director of communications Mike McDonald discuss why this raises serious moral issues for Georgetown, a school that identifies as a Catholic institution committed to human rights.

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Bill Donohue

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Georgetown University have established a very tight relationship. This raises serious moral issues for Georgetown, a school that identifies as a Catholic institution committed to human rights.

CAIR reportedly has connections with the Holy Land Foundation, an entity that has seen several of its leaders convicted of raising money for Hamas. Nihad Awad, the head of CAIR, said he was “happy” about the slaughter of 1,200 innocent Jews on October 7, 2023. He interpreted the massacre as an example of Palestinians fighting for their rights.

A new investigation of the events of that day reveals that Hamas terrorists raped women repeatedly, all the while laughing out loud. What happened was evil. “Female bodies were found naked or partially naked, in some cases with aluminum cans, grenades, nails, blunt objects, rods, household tools and spike-like instruments, inserted into genitals and other parts of the body, as well as multiple gun-shot wounds, cutting injuries and targeted burning in genitals and breasts, or the face.”

CAIR’s co-founders, Awad and Omar Ahmad, were leading members of the U.S.-Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, which became the base of the Hamas infrastructure. Today, CAIR receives millions of dollars from the far-left Tides Foundation, using some of this money to fund anti-Israel “protesters” on American campuses.

CAIR has been accused of being a terrorist organization by several states, prominent members of Congress, and the United Arab Emirates; the FBI named it as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Holy Land Foundation trial. In fairness, the U.S. Department of State does not list it as such.

Georgetown and CAIR are joined at the hips. The former supplies the intellectual cover for the latter’s activities, and in this regard no one has done more to soften the public’s view of CAIR, and for that matter Hamas, than John L. Esposito, the founding director of The Bridge Institute at Georgetown; it focuses on what it calls “Islamophobia.”

Esposito is the darling of CAIR. He has spoken at their conferences on many occasions, often as the keynote speaker. More important, he calls CAIR a “mainstream organization” that fights for human rights. His goal is to polish CAIR’s public image as a responsible American Muslim group, though this is an uphill battle: CAIR is widely seen as a Hamas front group.

Esposito is not deterred by such accusations. His defense of Hamas is so strong that he deliberately dumbs down the way jihad is interpreted by these terrorists. “To some,” he says, “Jihad is the struggle to remain devout and obedient to Islamic ethics. To others, it is a validation for warfare and to struggle against an oppressive force.” This is a classic way to normalize genocidal maniacs—treat them as if they are good Muslim boys.

Hamas, Esposito tells us, is “a social and political movement” that unfortunately has received a lot of bad publicity.” Small wonder. He blames the bad image on “the Israeli occupation” and on a “sense of oppression and victimhood.”

Truth be told, the investigative report said it was Hamas men who sexually tortured Jewish women on October 7, 2023. Not surprisingly, Esposito blames “Israel’s war on Gaza” for the atrocities.

What about 9/11? Esposito decries it, but not for the actions of Muslim radicals who bombed the U.S., but because so many Americans concluded that “Islam and Muslims” are “a global threat.” In other words, stereotyping is the problem, not Muslim barbarism. Indeed, he even goes so far as to condemn those who compare Hamas to ISIS!

Georgetown is second only to Cornell in being bankrolled by Muslim-majority nations. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are its biggest donors, nations that violate the rights of women and gays with abandon. But don’t look for this Jesuit institution to raise this issue in public. It is too busy apologizing for slavery hundreds of years ago.

The CAIR-Georgetown nexus is obscene. The media could report on this link but they are too busy writing about unfounded fears of “Christian nationalism” to pay much attention.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham passed away suddenly on Saturday, June 11. In this episode of “Catholic League Report” president Bill Donohue and director of communications Mike McDonald discuss Graham’s morals and his defense of the rights of the unborn, marriage (properly understood), and religious liberty endeared him to people across faith lines.

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Bill Donohue

Senator Lindsey Graham was an astute advocate of traditional moral values: his defense of the rights of the unborn, marriage (properly understood), and religious liberty endeared him to people across faith lines.

He was not a man to compromise his principles. He strongly disagreed with the position of President Trump on the Dobbs decision, saying that this elementary life issue should not be a matter for states to decide. As he put it, “the pro-life movement has always been about the wellbeing of the unborn child—not geography.”

Graham voted for the Defense of Marriage Act when he was a member of the House in 1996; it defined marriage as the union between a man and a woman. When the Respect for Marriage Act was up for a vote—it was written to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act—he voted against it. His support for a proposed constitutional amendment securing marriage as the exclusive union of a man and a woman showed how strongly he believed in the traditional understanding of marriage.

Unlike some education reformers, Graham was an advocate for school choice initiatives that included funding for parochial schools; he co-sponsored the Educational Choice for Children Act that covered Catholic schools.

When New York State Democrats sought to force Chick-fil-A, an evangelical-run company, to open its restaurants on Sundays along the New York State Thruway, the South Carolina senator pushed back, threatening to withhold federal funds from any state or city that demands that Chick-fil-A to open on Sundays.

When Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a Catholic conservative, was unjustly trashed by Democrats—spurious accusations designed to destroy his character were floated with abandon—Graham proved to be his most ferocious defender. He pleaded with the American people to “see through this charade.” They did, and Kavanaugh was confirmed.

In 2019, I wrote to Senator Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging him to reject the Trump nomination of Michael Bogren for a federal district judge appointment. He had testified that there is no difference between Catholic farm owners who refuse to rent their property for the purpose of a gay wedding and the Ku Klux Klan’s right to discriminate against blacks. When he was asked to clarify his remarks, he stuck to his guns, holding that the teachings of Christianity on marriage are morally equivalent to the Klan’s racist ideology. Bogren was defeated.

In 2024, I wrote to Graham again, this time asking him to pursue the notorious FBI spying program that was launched against innocent Catholics. This Biden administration policy was one of the most egregious violations of religious liberty ever conducted by the federal government in the history of the United States. Graham was on the side of Catholics.

The people of South Carolina will eventually choose his replacement. One thing is for sure—Senator Lindsey Graham’s legacy as a champion of traditional moral values is uncontested.

If anyone has any doubt about just how radical New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is, consider the list of people whom he has embraced. In this episode of “Catholic League Report” director of communications Mike McDonald and senior policy analyst Nick Palczewski discuss the list of dangerous radical characters Mayor Mamdani has endorsed or added to his team.

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Bill Donohue discusses his book, Christianity in the Crosshairs, on “The Front Line With Joe & Joe.” To listen, click here.

Michael P. McDonald

If anyone has any doubt about just how radical New York City Zohran Mamdani is, consider the following list of people whom he has embraced.

Darializa Avila Chevalier

Chevalier is the Democratic nominee for New York’s 13^th Congressional. Thanks to Mamdani’s endorsement, she was able to defeat Representative Adriano Espaillat.

• In 2019, Chevalier wrote “seize the means of production” in a social media post.
• In 2020, Chevalier posted online that most of her political philosophy she read was communist but “the pyromania associated with anarchism is very intriguing to me.”
• In another 2020 post, Chevalier took umbrage with the phrase “defund the police” stating “F*** you. We’re gonna defund and abolish. You don’t get to water down our movement.”
• In another post, Chevalier rejected that abolishing the police meant only ending policing “as we know it.” Instead, she posited that “it means ending the police full stop. Period. No more police ever.”
• Chevalier argued that “A world without borders—just like a world without prisons or police—is possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward.”
• Chevalier lambasted black and Arab men for “fetishizing ugly colonizer women.”
• Chevalier founded the Columbia University Apartheid Divest organization, a group that is “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”
• Chevalier boasted that “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.”
• Chevalier called American military veterans “child murderers” guilty of “war crimes.”
• Chevalier proclaimed America to be “a f****** disgrace.”

Claire Valdez

Currently serving in the New York State Assembly, with Mamdani’s endorsement, Valdez secured the Democratic nomination for the New York 7^th Congressional District.

• Valdez describes herself as a “union organizer and a proud democratic socialist.”
• Valdez supports “unions for all,” forcing workers to give part of their paychecks to union bosses.
• Valdez has argued for nationalizing the airline industry.
• Valdez campaigned on the slogan “housing for all.”
• Valdez supports “Medicare for all,” effectively nationalizing healthcare.
• Valdez has called for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
• Valdez received the endorsement of the anti-American streamer turned activist Hassan Piker, who described Valdez as one of the “brilliant fighters” championing a socialist revolution in America.
• Valdez has accused America of being “an empire” complicit in “genocide and apartheid.”

Brad Lander

Lander secured the Democratic nomination for New York’s 10^th Congressional District thanks to Mamdani’s endorsement.

• On the campaign trail, Lander described his brand of democratic socialism as focusing on core progressive values.
• Lander supports nationalizing healthcare through “Medicare for all.”
• Lander endorsed “universal child care.”
• Lander is a proponent of expanding public housing and supports a national rent control program.
• Lander wants to abolish ICE.
• Lander favors taking funds away from the police and investing in “non-police crisis intervention” teams.

Aber Kawas

Kawas won the Democratic primary for a New York State Senate seat thanks to Mamdani’s endorsement.

• In a 2017 podcast, Kawas said, “The system of capitalism and racism and White supremacy… and Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people and so this is a long trajectory, and we’re just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9/11.”
• Kawas went on to say, “The idea we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple of people did and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery, et cetera, is something I find reprehensible.”
• In a 2025 interview, Kawas promotes the idea that Muslims were the real victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks by arguing that “I’ve always been outspoken about the wrongful scapegoating of Muslim Americans, both before and after 9/11.”
• Kawas reportedly has been affiliated with the Council of American Islamic Relations, which has been designated as a terrorist group.
• Kawas’ father overstayed a tourist visa in 1989 and went on to be convicted of real estate fraud. He was subsequently deported after a stint in prison for his crimes. However, the facts of the case have not prevented her from making her father’s legal troubles an important pillar of her campaign claiming it is the saga of a poor immigrant facing persecution.

Cea Weaver

Weaver currently serves as the Director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants.

• Weaver urged supporters to “elect more communists.”
• Weaver once wrote that “private property including any kind of especially homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.”
• Weaver said, “We’ll transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good—whites especially will be impacted.”
• Weaver posted online that she wanted to “impoverish the *white* middle class.” 

Afua Atta-Mensah 

Atta-Mensah currently serves in the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice as the Chief Equity Officer.

• Atta-Mensah endorsed the idea that there is “NO moderate way to black liberation.”
• Atta-Mensah wrote “Tax Them To The White Meat!!!”

Ramzi Kassem

Kassem currently serves as Mamdani’s Chief Counsel.

• Kassem provided the legal defense for an Al Qaeda terrorist.

These are the people Mamdani wants to run New York City. It is a lineup of lunatics, and if they get their way they will destroy the city.

Just prior to the festivities surrounding the 250 anniversary of the founding of America, President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission released a draft of its final report. In this episode of “Catholic League Report” director of communications Mike McDonald and senior policy analyst Nick Palczewski discuss this broad ranging report highlighting the most appalling infringements of the rights of faithful Americans. The report offers suggestions on how to ensure that these abuses never happen again.

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