Few Americans will publicly admit that they don't believe in free speech, yet attacks on it are commonplace. How can this be? While some are simply lying, others entertain a notion of free speech that allows them to be censorious while professing allegiance to it. Two years ago, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) [...]
Bill Donohue has decided to address a story that is developing in Anytown USA. The venue is a local gym for adult men and women. Reporter: Why are teenage boys allowed to compete in pre-teen boy games in Anytown? Mayor: They are not. The only boys who can compete in pre-teen sports are those who identify [...]
by Bill Donohue This article originally appeared in the American Spectator on March 20. If there were a proposal to erect a statue of St. Michael the Archangel on a municipal building, it would be understandable if some objected. However, it would not be understandable to object on the grounds that a depiction of St. Michael [...]
It is hard to know what is sicker—a Colorado bill that would gut parental rights or the basis upon which it rests. The bill would punish parents who do not align themselves with the wishes of their transgender children. Indeed, it grants the government the right to take them away from them. All they have to [...]
Theodore McCarrick died April 3 at the age of 94. The defrocked cardinal was known for decades as one of the most influential prelates in America. He was also a masterful fundraiser and a notorious homosexual whose predatory behavior is legendary. Contrary to what the Washington Post editorialized in 2019, it was not the media that [...]
The Catholic League has filed an amicus brief in New Jersey defending the rights of priests. We are represented by the Pittsburgh office of Leech Tishman; our attorney is Russell Giancola. The lead attorneys for the case are from Cooper Levenson in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This case began almost seven years ago. Following the Pennsylvania [...]
In March, a Kansas-based group, The Satanic Grotto, announced that it was planning to hold a "Black Mass" on grounds surrounding the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka at the end of the month. The Satanic Grotto admitted that the purpose of the "Black Mass" is to engage in blasphemy targeted at Catholics. On Facebook, it said, [...]
William A. Donohue On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order declaring there are only "two sexes, male and female." It says a lot about our society that this even has to be said. This same phenomenon—denying the existence of human nature and Biology 101—exists throughout western civilization. At bottom, this is [...]
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 [...]
Bill Donohue As we approached the 10th anniversary of homosexuals marching under their own banner in New York City's St. Patrick's Day Parade, it behooved us to understand how this happened. To begin with, gays were never banned from marching. As I said on radio and TV in New York for two decades, no one ever [...]
