This article originally appeared in The American Spectator on September 26, 2024 Bill Donohue Vice President Kamala Harris has turned down an invitation to speak at the Al Smith Dinner in New York City. Her staff says she will be busy campaigning, but that is a poor excuse: every presidential candidate, save for Walter Mondale in [...]
Bill Donohue Every survey shows that most Americans do not consider Donald Trump to be a particularly devout Christian. Indeed, only 14 percent of U.S. adults say the word “Christian” describes the former president. Even among evangelical Protestants who think favorably of Trump, only one in five strongly associates the term “Christian” with him. This obviously [...]
Bill Donohue At every level, non-Catholics are flocking to Catholic schools. The reasons vary, but no one argues with the numbers. The rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses, many of them at elite institutions, has driven Jewish students to seek a more welcoming environment at Catholic colleges and universities. Earlier this year a Jewish student and [...]
Bill Donohue There is a ballot initiative in New York State this November that is downright dangerous. I wrote a lengthy rebuttal and it is now available online in English and Spanish. It is also published in booklet form, in both languages. We are doing a mass mailing to our allies across the state. Most will [...]
Bill Donohue Depending on the survey, there are between 52 and 62 million Catholics in the United States; they make up roughly 20 percent of the population. That’s a significant demographic, made all the more serious given the fact that whoever wins the Catholic vote generally wins the presidential election. Therefore, one would think that a [...]
Bill Donohue As a political sociologist, I have been studying electoral politics for decades. There is a fancy name for what is called “the scientific study of elections.” It is called psephology, or what is more commonly known as survey research. To what extent we can seriously say it qualifies as a science is open to [...]
Bill Donohue Pope Francis recently ripped into Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, saying American voters were stuck with choosing “the lesser evil.” He condemned Harris’ support for abortion rights as being an “assassination,” and he condemned Trump for his position on illegal immigration, saying “not welcoming the migrant is a sin.” The Catholic Church regards certain [...]
Bill Donohue On September 11, we detailed how Kamala Harris and the media were wrong, and former president Donald Trump was right, in assessing the exchange on abortion during the presidential debate. Their “fact-checking” is abysmal. The media found fault with Trump for his claim that former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, and vice presidential candidate Tim [...]
Bill Donohue Vice President Kamala Harris and ABC moderators made comments about abortion during the presidential debate that were factually incorrect. Former President Donald Trump was correct. Worse, the media, by and large, are siding with the false narrative. Harris was asked by Linsey Davis if she supported any restrictions on a woman’s right to an [...]
Bill Donohue Those who scream the loudest about helping minorities are almost always the same ones who are doing everything they can to keep them in their place. Proof: It is mostly Democrats who champion minority rights, and it is mostly Democrats who want to force minorities to attend schools they wouldn’t send their own children [...]
