William A. Donohue When Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code was originally published, we ignored it. We did so because we are generally dismissive of novels. But things began to change when we learned that Brown was selling his work as an authentic historical account. In October 2003, ABC-TV invited the Catholic League to send a staff [...]
William A. Donohue It's time for some straight talk: the Catholic Church is being raped by some alleged abuse victims and their lawyers, and our side is capitulating. Moreover, the rights of the accused, namely priests, are being sacrificed on the altar of forgiveness. Don't get me wrong. Any priest, plumber, pediatrician or painter who violates [...]
As one who debates for living, I find it increasingly difficult to find an honest adversary. It used to be that I was able to engage my opponent in a verbal duel where facts and logic determined the outcome, but this seldom happens anymore. That's because so many debaters really don't want to debate the issue [...]
William A. Donohue John Gibson, who anchors the Fox News Channel's "The Big Story," has written a splendid book about the culture wars over Christmas. It is aptly titled, The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought. Gibson recounts a series of anti-Christmas cases that have [...]
William A. Donohue How many times have we been told—rightly so—that it is wrong to say that all Jews are like Shylock? Or that it is wrong to cast all blacks as Sambo? Or that it is wrong to say that all gays are promiscuous? Or that it is wrong to brand all Italians as gangsters? [...]
William A. Donohue Forbes magazine published an article in September about an attempt by lay Catholics to help the Church reorganize and get on firm financial ground. That's a noble goal. But when I was interviewed for the piece, I was asked whether the answer to matters like declining vocations and declining attendance at Mass could be [...]
William A. Donohue Attempts by some Democrats to derail John Roberts' nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court by dwelling on his religion will backfire: the nation has had enough with attempts to impose a veiled litmus test on Catholic nominees to the federal bench. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Steven Breyer were nominated by President Clinton [...]
Xenophobia is the fear of strangers, and it typically refers to foreigners or recent immigrants. But there is a new expression of xenophobia afloat in our culture today, and it is one that is harbored by many of our cultural elites: it is the fear of the faithful. This new strain of xenophobia is evidenced by [...]
William A. Donohue The day before he was elected pope, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave a homily before the College of Cardinals warning of a "dictatorship of relativism" that was sweeping much of the world. Obviously, they liked what they heard, otherwise he would still be a cardinal. It is also obvious that there are many in [...]
William A. Donohue On Thursday, March 31, I addressed some of the law students at Notre Dame University on the subject of media objectivity. But I was distracted all day, listening to reports on how the pope was doing. That night, I was interviewed by Aaron Brown of CNN at the local NBC affiliate, a studio [...]
