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TRUMP’S RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PANEL UNDER ATTACK

By |2026-07-02T11:47:32-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Ever since President Trump announced on May 1, 2025 that he wanted a Religious Liberty Commission to make recommendations on how to protect our most important freedom, critics have tried to discredit it. The same is true of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias; it was created on February 6, 2025, under the aegis of [...]

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KEY RELIGIOUS LIBERTY CASE ADVANCES

By |2026-07-02T11:46:49-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Three of the most anti-Catholic legal organizations in the nation are the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom From Religion Foundation. All three have sued the City of Quincy, Massachusetts and its mayor, Thomas Koch, over the proposed placement of statues of Saint Florian and Michael the [...]

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RELIGIOUS PROFILING IS BIGOTED

By |2026-07-02T11:41:25-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

We have previously noted that Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha has decided to conduct an investigation only of sexual misconduct by priests, allowing the clergy of every other religion a pass. Worse, he is giving a free pass to the public schools, where the problem—unlike that in the Catholic Church—is ongoing. Neronha is conducting a [...]

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SEXUAL ABUSE IN NYC SCHOOLS

By |2026-07-02T11:39:58-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

No institution today has a better record handling the sexual abuse of minors than the Catholic Church. Its record from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s was bad, but given the reforms initiated in 2002, it has all but eradicated this offense. The same is not true of other institutions, and none has made less progress than [...]

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CHURCH IS RIGHT ABOUT SAME SEX ATTRACTION

By |2026-07-02T11:35:53-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Jennifer Roback Morse and D. Paul Sullins This is a slightly abbreviated version of what we posted online. The full report, "Refuting the Top 5 Gay Myths," is available online at the Ruth Institute. If you thought that persons who are sexually attracted to the same sex must be gay or lesbian and can only enjoy [...]

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TED TURNER, R.I.P.

By |2026-07-02T11:35:00-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Ted Turner, founder of CNN, died May 6 at 87. He had been suffering from dementia for several years. Turner and Bill Donohue clashed a few times. But after they did, he acted responsibly. In 1999, he said that everyone should promise to have no more than two children. He failed to mention that he had [...]

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WHY MENTAL HEALTH IS NOT GETTING BETTER

By |2026-07-02T11:34:09-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

If ever there were a decided secular bias that is evident in our culture, it's the way elites continue to address mental health and wellbeing. They just don't get it. Read the personal advice column in a newspaper or magazine, and you will quickly learn how to guard against loneliness and depression, and how to ensure [...]

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DON’T FORGET SPLC’S ANTI-CATHOLIC LEGACY

By |2026-07-02T11:33:22-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Racism is a curse, and it is therefore understandable that news stories about the corrupt Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are focused on its funding of the Ku Klux Klan. What is frequently overlooked is its record of targeting Christians, especially Catholics. Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, nailed it when he said SPLC was guilty [...]

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WAS POPE LEO XIV HOODWINKED?

By |2026-05-21T13:53:29-04:00|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Last April, Bill Donohue wrote a scathing review of a book that smeared the Catholic Church, and Opus Dei, in particular. The following letter to the pope explains why he felt compelled to write to him. March 18, 2026 Secretariat of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV 00120 Vatican City Your Holiness: Your service to the Catholic [...]

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