CATHOLICS IN THE NEW CONGRESS SPLIT ON ABORTION
Bill Donohue The 119th session of the Congress that began on January 3 is overrepresented by Christians. While most are Protestant, 28 percent are Catholic. Nationwide, Christians make up 62 percent of the population, but [...]
HON. TIM HUELSKAMP JOINS OUR BOARD OF ADVISORS
Bill Donohue Former Kansas Congressman Tim Huelskamp has joined the Catholic League’s board of advisors. A committed pro-life Catholic, he served for 14 years in the Kansas Legislature and six years as a member of [...]
REUTERS SHOWS ITS ANTI-CATHOLIC BIAS
Bill Donohue With one notable exception, news stories on the death of Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, did not fail to mention that he was a convicted sex offender. Only Reuters, the [...]
BIDEN SUCCUMBS TO PRESSURE ON MORAL ISSUES
Bill Donohue For the past four years, the Catholic League has been fighting an array of public policies initiated by the Biden administration that touch on serious moral issues. We are happy to report that [...]
BIDEN HONORS SOROS
Bill Donohue On January 4, President Biden gave the Medal of Freedom to George Soros. It is the nation’s highest civilian award, given to “individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or [...]
THE UBIQUITY OF HATRED
Bill Donohue A decade ago, I ran into Alan Dershowitz in the green room at Fox News, awaiting a TV interview. We exchanged some small talk, and then he said something that has stayed with [...]
2024 YEAR IN REVIEW
The Catholic League's 2024 Year in Review is now available. It contains an overview of some of our most important battles and victories over the last year. To read it, click here.
TRUMP WOULD NOT HAVE WON WITHOUT HIM
Bill Donohue Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision in March of 2021 to launch Operation Lone Star—bussing migrants from Texas to cities across the nation—turned out to be one of the most consequential issues affecting the [...]
CHRISTMAS PRESENT—DISNEY IS WISING UP
Bill Donohue We’ll take a slow learner over one who never learns, which is why we are happy to report that Disney continues to move away from its offensive fare. Are they family-friendly again? Not [...]
THE POLITICS OF COMEDY
Bill Donohue This first appeared in the American Spectator on Oct. 22 They got to Jerry Seinfeld. He received enough blowback from the Left that he caved: he no longer blames humorless left-wing pundits and [...]
MARKETS AND MISSILES ARE NOT ENOUGH
William A. Donohue When I first arrived at The Heritage Foundation in 1987, I was greeted with great skepticism by many who worked there. The D.C. conservative think-tank had chosen me to be in the [...]
THE MORALITY OF DOCTOR-ASSISTED SUICIDE
William A. Donohue This article, which has been slightly revised, was published in the February edition of Legatus magazine. If there was one strain of political thought that was evident in the elections last November, [...]
BEHIND THE CHARLIE HEBDO STORY
William A. Donohue To say 2015 got off to a fast start would be an understatement: it seemed that all I did was grant one interview after another, running from one TV studio to another. [...]
TAKING STOCK IN ABORTION DATA
William A. Donohue Those who are pro-life, as the readers of Catalyst surely are, refuse to take comfort in data that indicate a decline in abortions. That's understandable. But there is a difference between taking [...]
SELECTIVE SENSIBILITIES
William A. Donohue Almost 8 in 10 Americans are Christian and approximately 96 percent celebrate Christmas. That makes for few Scrooges, though one would never know it given the corrosive effect that militant atheist groups, [...]
GAYS AND GAY ACTIVISTS
William A. Donohue According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1.6 percent of Americans are homosexual. Yet that very small minority projects an influence on our culture that is extraordinary. A few years back, gay [...]
THE POLITICS OF THE ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE
William A. Donohue When I became president of the Catholic League in 1993, there was no Catholic League unit in New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade. That soon changed. For the past 20 years we [...]
THE POWER OF HOPE AND PRAYER
William A. Donohue Lately, as the result of a new book I am finishing, I have given a lot of thought to the power of hope and prayer. So when I heard about the travails [...]
FREE SPEECH UNDER FIRE
William A. Donohue Over and over again, I have said that I would prefer to suffer the indignity of having my religion trashed before endorsing the right of the government to censor the offensive speech. [...]
THE MYTH OF DIVERSITY
William A. Donohue The greatest threat to freedom these days comes not from neo-Nazis, or from any other group on the lunatic fringe: it comes from those who tout the virtue of diversity. Unfortunately, they [...]
Why Are We Obsessed with the Destruction of L.A.?
Bill in the News (The New York Times): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, comments on the controversy surrounding the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. READ MORE HERE
Teacher-union head slammed for comparing school-choice backers to segregationists
Bill in the News (Washington Times): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, accused her of “Christian bashing.” “The subject under discussion had nothing to do with religion, so it tells us volumes about Weingarten [...]
The Canadian Holocaust That Never Happened
Bill in the News (Townhall): In 2014, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League wrote about a "mass graves" hysteria in Ireland around a claim that 800 bodies were found outside a home Catholic nuns used [...]
Catholic League ‘disturbed’ by House panel report showing FBI offices targeted Catholics as ‘potential domestic terrorists’
Bill in the News (Christian Post): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, sent a public letter [Thursday] to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, after the panel revealed the FBI's Richmond Field Office [...]
Catholic Leaders Demand Answers from FBI on Bombshell Discovery Agency Probe into Traditional Catholics ‘Bigger than Believed’
Bill in the News (Tennessee Star): National Catholic leaders said the FBI’s probe of Catholics, as revealed by documents obtained by the House Judiciary Committee, went far beyond a so-called rogue agent in a single [...]
New York Governor Hochul To Offer Free Healthcare For Prostitutes, Other Sex Workers
Bill in the News (The Federalist Papers): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, was also highly critical of Gov. Hochul’s policies, including her stance on crime and the homelessness [...]
Hochul facing criticism over new health care program for sex workers: ‘Magnet for more prostitutes’
Bill in the News (NY Post): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, bashed Hochul over her crime policies and the homelessness crisis, adding: “Now she wants the taxpayers to [...]
‘Enlightened’ Progressives Anything But
Catholic League in the News (Newsmax): Mainstream media’s dutiful parroting of the group’s dishonest self-characterization—they dress as Catholic nuns and do charitable work—is not even close to describing the depth of their anti-Catholic depravity. The [...]
The president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue
(Wilmington Catholic Radio): Judi and Tara speak to Dr. Bill Donohue, a sociologist, about his newest book, War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream. In this show, Bill explains how [...]
Social Conservatism Is Rebounding
Bill in the News (The American Spectator): No wonder social conservatism is rebounding — most people are convinced that we are morally troubled, to say the least. There are reasons for optimism, however....READ MORE HERE
Special Reports
SNAP UNRAVELS
Bill Donohue President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights At the end of 2011, a Missouri judge ordered David Clohessy, the president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), to be [...]
ROLLING STONE GETS UGLY: VILE HIT ON PHILLY ARCHDIOCESE
Special Report by Bill Donohue The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church provides grist for the mill to those who harbor an animus against it, so a certain amount of cheap shots are to [...]
SNAP EXPOSED: UNMASKING THE SURVIVORS NETWORK OF THOSE ABUSED BY PRIESTS
Special Report by William Donohue August 22, 2011 The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) held a national conference in Washington, D.C., July 8-10. This report details what happened. Over the past decade, Catholics [...]
John Jay 2011 Study on Sexual Abuse: A Critical Analysis
Special Report by Bill Donohue May 24, 2011 Click here to read Bill Donohue's analysis of the 2011 John Jay Report on the "Causes and Context" of clergy sex abuse.
Response to CNN Documentary on the Pope
Special Report by William A. Donohue, Ph.D. September 28, 2010 The CNN documentary, "What the Pope Knew," which aired September 25, deserves a response. The program begins with music and graphics that set the tone: those [...]
Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience
November 20, 2009 Preamble Christians are heirs of a 2,000-year tradition of proclaiming God’s word, seeking justice in our societies, resisting tyranny, and reaching out with compassion to the poor, oppressed and suffering. While fully [...]
Emulating the European Model: Prescription for Failure
Special Report by Bill Donohue September 2009 To say the Obama administration is enamored of the European model would be an understatement—it positively adores it. That’s why the “Change You Can Believe In” crowd is in [...]
“Angels & Demons”
Special Report by William Donohue March 2009 Click here to read the booklet, "Angels & Demons: More Demonic Than Angelic."
Bill Maher’s Bigotry
"I have hated the Church way before anyone else." -Bill Maher, May 8, 2002 on "Politically Incorrect" Bill Maher is America's Biggest Bigot. How do we know? Consider the following: Bill Maher, comedian and famed [...]
Obama and Infanticide
2008 "When he was in the state senate, Barack Obama worked hard against a bill that would provide health care for a baby who survived an abortion…. This is called 'selective infanticide'.... There’s been a [...]
Annual Reports
HHS MANDATE TARGETS CATHOLICS
This year, for the first time in American history, the federal government waged war on the First Amendment rights of Roman Catholics. When the healthcare bill was being considered, the Obama administration said it would [...]
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS
November 20 Alsip, IL – The Freedom From Religion Foundation used the threat of a lawsuit to force the Village of Alsip to cancel the display of a cross on its water tower, which had [...]
MISCELLANEOUS
January 22 Dorcester, MA – At Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Church, a statue of Jesus was decapitated and moved off its base. February 22 Union City, CA – On Ash Wednesday, vandals attacked St. [...]
PREFACE
There are many ways of writing an annual report: some organizations list a few major accomplishments, while others provide a tally of incidents or events. We don’t quantify—it’s not easy to do so with qualitative [...]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
When 2011 began, we did not expect that we would spend a disproportionate amount of time addressing attacks on the Catholic Church stemming from charges of clergy sexual abuse. But we did. Consider how this [...]
ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS
January 24 Colorado Springs, CO – The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) filed a lawsuit against the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) because they scheduled a prayer luncheon on February 10. The Superintendent of [...]
THE ARTS
January Panel discussions were held in several American cities and in Europe discussing the 2010 decision of the Smithsonian to remove a vile video from the National Portrait Gallery that the Catholic League had objected [...]
BUSINESS/WORKPLACE
February 22 Hilliard, OH – A statue of the Virgin Mary that had been kept in front of a resident’s condo for ten years was ordered to be removed by The Hilliard Village Association. It [...]
EDUCATION
February 17 Davis, CA – The University of California at Davis decided to back away from a school policy that would identify religious discrimination as “The loss of power and privilege to those who do [...]
GOVERNMENT
February 23 Washington, D.C. – Attorney General Eric Holder wrote a letter to members of Congress announcing President Obama’s decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, stating that it was unconstitutional. The president, [...]
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WASHINGTON STATE SHOULD ADOPT CANON LAW
Bill Donohue Respecting separation of church and state is a two-way street. That is the occasion for this letter. Contact: noel.frame@leg.wa.gov May 20, 2025 Sen. Noel Frame 220 John A. [...]
JESUIT COLLEGES HAVE A FREE SPEECH PROBLEM
Bill Donohue The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) periodically does a study of some colleges and universities, rating them on their tolerance for free speech. The 2025 report [...]
MEDIA COVER FOR COMEY’S THREAT
Bill Donohue When patrons tell bartenders it is time to “86” that guy at the end of the bar, they mean he’s drunk and should be cut off. In other [...]
SMEAR MERCHANTS ATTACK POPE LEO XIV
Bill Donohue Few things excite the media more than a juicy sex story about Catholic priests, no matter how half-baked the story is. The latest iteration of this phenomenon came [...]