Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the Texas A&M professor who is under fire for his anti-Catholicism: Yesterday, I wrote to Texas A&M University President Michael K. Young about the incredibly anti-Catholic social media posts featured by professor Filipe Castro; we also contacted many officials at the university and in government. Now we have received [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a Texas A&M professor: Anti-Catholicism on our nation's campuses is nothing new, but there is an anthropology professor at Texas A&M University, Filipe Castro, who has gone beyond the typical rants against Catholics and Catholicism. What he has posted on social media shows that he does not seek to [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the new school year: For the most part, Catholic schools across the nation have opened normally. For the most part, public schools across the nation have opened abnormally (if at all). The contrast in administrative competence could not be more stark. Here is a representative sample. Atlanta Schools in [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a new Trump directive on religious liberty: For many years now, I have said that there is more free speech allowed in your local pub than there is on your local college campus. Ditto for religious rights. It took the Trump administration, led by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue discusses the racist record of the New York Times: Coming on the heels of a bloody summer, much of it driven by racially charged rhetoric and behavior, the new school year has begun. But not without calls to address racism. Elementary and secondary students are being primed to learn about America's [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Catholics for Choice: In 1973, in the year that abortion was legalized, an anti-Catholic group was founded to promote abortion rights. But it was not the usual anti-Catholic outfit. This one falsely assumed a Catholic identity. Initially called Catholics for a Free Choice, it would later shorten its name [...]
The following article was written by Ronald J. Rychlak, Distinguished Professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He is one of the world's foremost experts on the role of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust. He serves on the board of advisors of the Catholic League. For decades now, critics of the Catholic Church [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on how Covid-19 is affecting mental health: Andrew Copson is the chief executive of Humanists UK. On August 27, he published a piece on the United Kingdom website, Politics, noting that coronavirus presents Brits with a novel challenge. "For the majority of Brits—more than 52% of whom identify as non-religious—this [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on attempts to salvage Margaret Sanger's racist history: Aside from pro-abortion activists, everyone who has taken a serious look at the writings and speeches of Margaret Sanger admits that she was a racist. Indeed, she was as big a racist as any Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan ever [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on new problems for the Democrats: Every survey in the last few decades shows that agnostics, atheists, and those with no religious affiliation have set anchor in the Democratic Party. By contrast, religious Americans are overwhelmingly Republican. The events at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) only made matters worse; a [...]