William A. Donohue Scenario: a group of so-called enlightened thinkers assemble to play a word association game. When they hear the term "bigotry," they respond by saying things like "anti-Semitism," "racism," and "sexism." It would never occur to them to say "anti-Catholicism." But why? It’s too easy to say that Jews, blacks and women have done [...]
William A. Donohue Three men whose lives have been wrapped up in the Catholic Church, only to see their relationship torn, are John Cornwell, Garry Wills and James Carroll. Cornwell and Wills spent time in the seminary and quit; Carroll became a priest and quit. They are mostly known these days for writing the most scurrilous [...]
William A. Donohue There is not a school or corporation that doesn’t mouth the mantra of diversity, whether it be in the form of a classroom discussion on multiculturalism or a diversity seminar for employees. What is particularly bothersome about this enterprise is the rank intellectual dishonesty that colors it. In the language of multiculturalism, diversity [...]
William A. Donohue What happened in the presidential election is a mirror of our culture: politically and morally we are a divided people. This isn’t good for anyone and it high time we started the mending process. One way to start is to examine the sociological principles that undergird Catholicism and then see what they have [...]
William A. Donohue The Holy Father has often said that freedom is the right to do what we ought to do. What we ought to do can be found in the Ten Commandments and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Now contrast this with what the dominant culture teaches—that freedom is the right to do [...]
William A. Donohue The Catholic League has moved to 450 Seventh Avenue, right across the street from Macy’s and up the block from Madison Square Garden and Penn Station. We occupy the entire 34th floor on the corner of 34th Street and Seventh Avenue. Why the move? We’ve moved because we’ve run out of room at the Catholic [...]
William A. Donohue In February we objected to George W. Bush’s visit to Bob Jones University. Six months later we objected to Al Gore’s refusal to stop a fund-raising event at the Playboy Mansion. Subsequently, Bush made a public statement of regret regarding his handling of the Bob Jones matter and Gore saw to it that [...]
William A. Donohue One of the more common complaints about the Catholic Church is that it is an “undemocratic” institution. Indeed, many go so far as to label the Church “authoritarian.” While the first charge is true, the second is false. If by democracy it is meant what Lincoln meant, government by, for and of the [...]
William A. Donohue It was Sunday, October 3, 1993, and I had been on the job for just three months. That afternoon, I went for a walk in mid-town Manhattan and stumbled upon a street fair. The hot sausage was great and so was the beer. Then I heard some music coming from 5th Avenue, so [...]
William A. Donohue The fact that the term Irreligious Left sounds strange, but Religious Right does not, is a function of media bias. No one uses the former term while the latter is part of every pundit’s vocabulary. Yet in reality there is more reason to use the former than the latter. A recent Gallup poll [...]
