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Bill Donohue A recent Pew Research Center survey of Catholics concluded that they want the Catholic Church to be “more inclusive.” But do they? No sooner are we told that “Most U.S. Catholics Say They Want the Church to be ‘More Inclusive’” when we learn how seriously qualified that conclusion is. What matters is whether Catholics [...]

Bill Donohue A group of Christians hold a pro-family rally in Seattle and are attacked by Antifa anarchists for doing so. This is exactly the kind of incident that President Trump’s Commission on Religious Liberty needs to investigate. He set up a task force on anti-Christian bias, and the Catholic League has been working with this [...]

Bill Donohue Last week, Pope Leo XIV addressed Catholic teachers, making plain that his idea of education transcends the ABC’s. He implored them to “dedicate yourselves to the formation of the young with enthusiasm, fidelity and a spirit of sacrifice.” He specifically spoke to the issue of values. “What, in the world of youth today, are [...]

Bill Donohue Respecting separation of church and state is a two-way street. That is the occasion for this letter. Contact: noel.frame@leg.wa.gov May 20, 2025 Sen. Noel Frame 220 John A. Cherberg Building PO Box 40436 Olympia, Washington 98504 Dear Sen. Frame: Your interest in preventing Catholic priests from being excommunicated for violating Canon law if they [...]

Bill Donohue The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) periodically does a study of some colleges and universities, rating them on their tolerance for free speech. The 2025 report on 251 schools found that the University of Virginia ranked #1 and Harvard ranked #251. Jesuit schools generally do poorly, and the latest study is no [...]

Bill Donohue When patrons tell bartenders it is time to “86” that guy at the end of the bar, they mean he’s drunk and should be cut off. In other contexts, it might mean to nix, or to cancel, someone. It might also mean something more serious. When James Comey aligned seashells to read, 86 47, [...]

Bill Donohue Few things excite the media more than a juicy sex story about Catholic priests, no matter how half-baked the story is. The latest iteration of this phenomenon came on the day Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV. Wasting no time claiming he is guilty of covering up priestly sexual abuse was SNAP (Survivors [...]

This article was originally written by Fr. Gordon J. MacRae on Beyond These Stone Walls in May 2018 If there exists a Catholic priest still in denial about the agenda of SNAP, it’s because he has lived with his head in the sand blind to the threat lying in wait for him. In 2009, at the [...]

Bill Donohue Cardinal Robert Prevost chose to be known as Pope Leo XIV partly because he identified with Pope Leo XIII’s interest in meeting the challenges of the industrial revolution. Today, he says, the technological challenge comes from AI, or artificial intelligence. He warns that it poses “new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice [...]