Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on impending threats to religious liberty: Left-wing advocacy organizations are wasting no time pressing Joe Biden to do away with the religious liberty protections afforded by the Trump administration. As we have previously detailed, no president has done more to secure religious liberty than Donald Trump. The three most prominent [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a story by the Associated Press about the way lay Catholics allegedly responded to Archbishop Gomez's statement on Joe Biden: Most of the news stories on the alleged widespread division in the ranks of the Catholic laity are bogus. How do I know? Because most writers, and many pollsters, [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue is asking newly elected Rep. John Jacob (R) from Indiana to renounce the anti-Catholic remarks he posted on Facebook prior to taking office. To read Donohue's letter, click here. Contact Jacob's press secretary: samantha.holifield@iga.in.gov
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the U.S. bishops and their relationship with Joe Biden: Assuming Joe Biden is chosen as president next month by the Electoral College, he will pose a problem for the bishops. Indeed, the head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Archbishop José Gomez, indicated this week that [...]
Bill Donohue This is my analysis of the "Report on the Holy See's Institutional Knowledge and Decision-Making Related to Former Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick," or what is commonly known as "The McCarrick Report." Much of what follows is a summary overview designed to spare readers the necessity of reading the 461-page document. It also includes my [...]
Bill Donohue comments on an editorial from the National Catholic Reporter slandering St. John Paul II: Over the years, I have documented the attacks by the dissident Catholics at the National Catholic Reporter against the Church. Hardly a day goes by that they do not impugn at least one aspect of the Faith. However, their editorial [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a lawsuit filed by the Diocese of Brooklyn: Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, who heads the Diocese of Brooklyn, has a lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court that could prove to be historic. All reasonable persons understand the right of government to impose limited restrictions on the public during a pandemic, [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the "self-identity" craze plaguing our culture: To prove his own existence, Descartes famously said, "I think, therefore I am." To prove their own identity, we now have people saying, "I identify as X, therefore I am X." In my lifetime, never have I seen more intellectual dishonesty than exists today. Many live [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on critics of the Vatican-released report on former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick: Having read the 449-page report by the Holy See on former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, and having completed a manuscript on the subject of clergy sexual abuse (it is scheduled to be published later next year), I am in a [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest episode of the Fox TV show, "Family Guy" (Fox entertainment is owned by Disney): I wrote today to the ten members of the Walt Disney Company Board of Directors about the November 8 episode of "Family Guy." This episode featured a scene where two Catholic sacraments, Baptism [...]