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WHY THE NEED TO BASH OPUS DEI?

By |2025-08-27T10:24:59-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

Bill Donohue Opus Dei is loved by millions of Catholics all over the world for its yeoman efforts in getting Catholics to practice their religion more seriously. Founded in 1928 by a Spanish priest, Josemaria Escrivá, it is a spiritual home to lay Catholics and clerics who are committed to living the faith on a daily [...]

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YEAR IN REVIEW 2024

By |2025-08-27T15:03:54-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

Michael P. McDonald 2024 will go down in American history as a pivotal year. The people standing for tradition, reason, and faith fought to reclaim their country, and the Catholic League was right there in the thick of it. By far, the biggest story of 2024 was the presidential election, and as history unfolded, we tirelessly [...]

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PEOPLE OF FAITH MAKE THE BEST CITIZENS

By |2025-10-31T15:37:55-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

Bill Donohue Citizenship is central to a free society. Without men and women acting responsibly, and giving of themselves to others, freedom is jeopardized for everyone. The attributes that make for good citizenship include such virtues as self-discipline, self-responsibility, community service and patriotism. These virtues do not come naturally to us—they must be carefully nourished. Those [...]

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THE MYTH OF CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST VIOLENCE

By |2025-10-31T15:34:48-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Essay, Features|Tags: |

Bill Donohue As a sociologist and a Catholic advocate, I am quite interested in the left-wing accusation that Christian nationalists are a violent-ridden threat to America. Those who make this charge are mostly academics and activists. I was skeptical about their claim, so I decided to fact check their work. I am no longer skeptical: I [...]

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CATHOLIC ASSESSMENT OF KAMALA HARRIS

By |2025-10-31T15:30:45-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

Bill Donohue There are many ways to assess any public person. My interest here is to assess Kamala Harris from a Catholic perspective. Before issuing an abbreviated rendition of this article at the end of July, the last news release I wrote about Harris was in May. It was occasioned by her foul mouth. Everyone concedes [...]

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BIDEN AND TRUMP ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

By |2025-10-31T15:25:44-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

Bill Donohue In 1952, Congress designated the first Thursday in May as the National Day of Prayer; this year it fell on May 2. Predictably, every president since has said something positive about religion on this day. To judge their sincerity, however, we need to look at the policies they initiated that touch on religious liberty. [...]

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Catholic League Report: Biden Administration and Thought Control

By |2025-10-31T15:22:04-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

No administration in American history has tried harder to promote thought control than the Biden administration. Orwellian at its finest, the goal is to induce the public to accept its highly politicized vocabulary as a means of controlling its thought patterns. Here are some examples of how this is being done. (Links to the evidence are [...]

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THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

By |2024-04-18T13:55:24-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

Fr. D. Paul Sullins For years, as a faithful Catholic social scientist, I have experienced embedded, irrational opposition to the expression in scientific settings of evidence and truths that support the Catholic faith or the natural law. Like today's often-noted two-tier system of justice, more permissive for progressives and more rigorous for conservatives, there are two [...]

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2023 YEAR IN REVIEW

By |2025-10-31T15:13:34-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: |

Michael P. McDonald For 50 years the Catholic League has led the charge in every major cultural battle, and in 2023, we continued this tradition. We started the year off with a bang when we released our documentary, "Walt's Disenchanted Kingdom: How Disney is Losing its Way." The film explores how the once family-friendly media titan [...]

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