Bill Donohue President Trump ignited his critics again, such as Huff Post, when he opined on May 19, “When you have religion, you have less crime. It’s like, ‘Gee, I want to go to heaven, so I’m not going to do this or that.’ Who knows?” His observation about religion and crime is accurate: there is [...]
Bill Donohue A new Pew Research Center survey, “How Americans Feel About Religion’s Influence in Government and Public Life,” reveals that Republicans and Democrats seriously disagree on the public role of religion. What the survey does not disclose is why. Before addressing this issue, it is important to recognize areas of general agreement. Most Americans (8-in-10) [...]
Bill Donohue There is something seriously wrong with a large swath of self-identified Democrats. If the nutty things they believe were true of others, calls for deprogramming would be everywhere. But the only ones pleading for deprogramming are contemporary Democrats (they are not at all like the Democrats of old). In October 2021, failed presidential candidate [...]
Bill Donohue Ever since President Trump announced on May 1, 2025 that he wanted a Religious Liberty Commission to make recommendations on how to protect our most important freedom, critics have tried to discredit it. The same is true of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias; it was created on February 6, 2025, under the [...]
Bill Donohue If ever there were a decided secular bias that is evident in our culture, it’s the way elites continue to address mental health and wellbeing. They just don’t get it. Read the personal advice column in a newspaper or magazine, and you will quickly learn how to guard against loneliness and depression, and how [...]
Bill Donohue The founder of Mother’s Day was one for the books. The day she founded she later sought to abolish, largely because she disapproved of the way families came to celebrate their mothers. In 1914, President Woodrow Woodrow signed a bill that made the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. The person who successfully [...]
Bill Donohue On May 5, a mob of 100 anti-Israel protesters showed up outside the same Manhattan synagogue that 200 of them descended upon last November. Many of the radical Muslims hid their faces, wearing scarves and masks. As Jews entered the synagogue, they shouted, and carried signs, saying, “from the river to the sea,” “long [...]
Bill Donohue Ted Turner, founder of CNN, has died at 87. He had been suffering from a form of dementia, a brain disorder, for several years. He was certainly a titan in the television industry, literally putting cable television news on the map. I enjoyed being a guest on CNN’s “Crossfire" and “Larry King Live” in [...]
Fr. Gordon J. MacRae (This story originally appeared on Beyond These Stone Walls) I wrote a post recently entitled “Book of Tobit: The Angel Raphael on the Road with Pornchai Moontri.” It was an allegory, like the Book of Tobit itself. An allegory is a sort of genre of Sacred Scripture in which a story is [...]
Bill Donohue No institution today has a better record handling the sexual abuse of minors than the Catholic Church. Its record from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s was bad, but given the reforms initiated in 2002, it has all but eradicated this offense. The same is not true of other institutions, and none has made less [...]
