This is the article that appeared in the July/August 2024 edition of Catalyst, our monthly journal. The date that prints out reflects the day that it was uploaded to our website. For a more accurate date of when the article was first published, check out the news release, here. Bill Donohue Bill Donohue, Cultural Meltdown: The [...]
Mary Ann Glendon Mary Ann Glendon, In the Courts of Three Popes: An American Lawyer and Diplomat in the Last Absolute Monarchy of the West (Penguin Random House Image Books, 2024) Veteran Vatican journalist John Allen once wrote, after years of observing the Holy See, that "You could make a pretty good case that your odds [...]
Msgr. Robert J. Batule Russell Shaw and David Byers, Revitalizing Catholicism in America (Our Sunday Visitor, 2023) Authors Russell Shaw and David Byers in their new book Revitalizing Catholicism in America (Our Sunday Visitor, 2023) present evidence for the nation's largest religious body to be in a decline. To revitalize Catholicism in America, they say, we [...]
Bill Donohue Bill Donohue, War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class Is Killing the American Dream (Sophia Institute Press, 2023) This book is about the making of the American dream and attempts to thwart it by the ruling class. Having studied why some people are a success, as measured by educational and economic achievement, I came [...]
Thomas D. Williams Thomas D. Williams, The Coming Christian Persecution:Why Things are Getting Worse and What You Can Do About It (Sophia Institute Press, 2023) Christian persecution is the sleeper story of the decade. It is perhaps the most newsworthy and least reported of any phenomenon in the world today. Let me begin with an example. [...]
Bill Donohue When the clergy sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is discussed, the focus is usually on the two principal parties to it, namely the molesting priests and their enabling bishops. In my new book, The Truth About Clergy Sexual Abuse: Clarifying The Facts And The Causes, I call this Scandal I. It is [...]
Mike McDonald As the new school year begins, what children learn has become one of the biggest flash points in the culture war. From curricula to textbooks in elementary schools to high schools and beyond, these are now battlegrounds hotly contested by activist mobs and parents. So, with this as our backdrop, the Catholic League decided [...]
Bill Donohue Russell Shaw, Eight Popes and the Crisis of Modernity (Ignatius Press) Today we turn on the Internet to do our research. Those researching the Catholic Church would find their job easier if they simply called Russell Shaw. Not for nothing do I call him a walking encyclopedia of the Catholic Church. Shaw has done [...]
Bill Donohue Robert Cardinal Sarah, The Day Is Now Far Spent (Ignatius Press) Many observers have commented on the decline of Western civilization, but among Catholic students of this subject, no one captures the essence of what has happened better than Robert Cardinal Sarah. What makes his analysis so potent is that he is not of [...]
Deal W. Hudson Deal W. Hudson, How To Keep From Losing Your Mind: Educating Yourself Classically to Resist Cultural Indoctrination (TAN Books) What I call losing your mind is not about those moments when you throw up your hands in disgust, it's about losing your mind to a lie. When you buy into a false worldview, [...]
