MEET THE CATHOLICS WHO SUPPORT HARRIS
Bill Donohue As we have pointed out numerous times, Kamala Harris has not endeared herself to Catholics. Her policies on abortion, marriage, the family, sexuality, religious liberty and school choice are all contrary to Catholic [...]
WASHINGTON POST NEEDS A REALITY CHECK
Bill Donohue Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, lives in the real world, but many of his readers and writers do not. He knows the media have lost their credibility but the others [...]
KAMALA’S RACIST IDEA OF BLACK MEN
Bill Donohue We all possess several statuses. For example, Kamala Harris is Vice President of the United States, a woman, and a descendant of slavemasters. Furthermore, we all have a master status, the one that [...]
KAMALA CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT ABORTION
Bill Donohue When Trump was in office, the average year-over-year inflation rate was 1.9 percent. It has soared under Biden-Harris, making it the number-one issue for voters. Under Trump, illegal immigration was tamed, but under [...]
CATHOLIC CHURCHES TARGETED IN NYC
Bill Donohue In the last six months, four Catholic churches in New York City have been vandalized, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral was invaded during Mass for the second time this year. Here are the data. [...]
LAUGHING AT ABORTION
Bill Donohue Can abortion be funny? Some think so. While most liberals would not agree that it is, it remains true that the only ones who do are secular liberals. Some are prominent Americans. If [...]
NEW “CATHOLIC” FILM CONCLAVE TO DEBUT
Michael P. McDonald On October 25, Conclave will appear in movie theaters across the country. This thriller about a fictitious papal-election has garnered glowing reviews on the film festival circuit. In fact, the movie has [...]
HARRIS AND “Dr.” JILL COMPETE FOR HONORS
Bill Donohue The literary credentials of Kamala Harris and Jill Biden are quite a spectacle. Not sure who is more impressive. Harris claims to be the author of a 2010 book, Smart On Crime. Jill [...]
WHY KAMALA STIFFED AL SMITH DINNER
Bill Donohue None of us like to go to a party where we feel out of place. This explains why Kamala Harris decided to stiff New York Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan and skip the Al [...]
WHITMER’S PHONY APOLOGY
Bill Donohue Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer dug herself a new hole when she offered a fundamentally dishonest apology, and then had her press secretary lie about what happened. Whitmer said she would “never do something [...]
MEDIA MANTRAS
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William Donohue One might think that in this day and age of multiple news sources—newspapers, broadcast TV, free tabloids, radio, cable, pay-per-view, magazines, the Internet—that it would be harder for faulty [...]
IDEOLOGICAL BLINDERS
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William Donohue It is not easy to be objective, but it is not impossible. Judges in the courtroom, along with Olympic judges in diving and ice skating events, generally do a [...]
SMITHSONIAN MADNESS
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William Donohue By now, everyone knows that we objected to the video that showed large ants crawling all over Jesus on the Cross, but what is less well known is that [...]
OBAMA, CATHOLICS AND ABORTION
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William Donohue When Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, the Republican Party was the pro-abortion party, and the Democrats were the party of life. There was a very strong WASP [...]
ARE THERE NO PRINCIPLES LEFT?
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William Donohue Catholic League members are not unfamiliar with the raging hypocrisy that governs our cultural elites. We know all about their unlimited tolerance for Catholic bashing, and their equally unlimited [...]
GROUND ZERO MOSQUE IS MORALLY WRONG
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William Donohue As president of the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization, and as a strong advocate of religious liberty, I am instinctively pulled towards support for building a mosque near [...]
HOMOSEXUALITY AND SEXUAL ABUSE
The conventional wisdom maintains there is a pedophilia crisis in the Catholic Church. Popular as this position is, it is empirically wrong: the data show it has been a homosexual crisis all along. The evidence [...]
UNDERSTANDING ANTHONY MALKIN
In New York, like all big cities, there are public notables, superstar athletes, entertainers, politicians, community leaders, businessmen, venture capitalists, clergymen, artists, media personalities, actors, musicians—celebrities of all kinds—persons who stand out and are well [...]
CULTURAL TOXINS
There are times when it would be great to be a fly on the wall, listening to how an unseemly discussion unfolds. I felt this way recently when I learned that Mother Teresa was being [...]
WHAT INSPIRES FATHER RICK
n last month’s edition of Catalyst, I discussed the heroics of Father Richard Frechette, the priest/physician who has labored among the dispossessed in Haiti for over two decades. Now I want to explain what inspires this [...]
“Catholic Connection”
Bill in the News ("Catholic Connection"): “The Los Angeles Dodgers threw Catholics and conservatives a curveball on Monday by reversing their decision not to spotlight the blasphemous anti-Catholic drag group known as the “Sisters of Perpetual [...]
After Dodgers reinstate plan to honor group, LA archdiocese calls on Catholic to support women religious
Bill in the News (Detroit Catholic): Catholic groups, including the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, and Catholic Vote, as well as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, had criticized the group for mocking the Catholic [...]
Catholic League: Joe Biden Is Dividing Americans ‘Along Racial Lines’
Bill in the News (Breitbart): Catholic League President Bill Donohue said Monday that Joe Biden and his administration are “stoking the fire” of racism in America. READ MORE HERE
Los Angeles Dodgers reverse course and re-invite drag charity group to Pride Night event
Bill in the News (CNN): Among those who balked at the Sisters’ recognition were Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio and Bill Donahue, the president of the Catholic League, an organization that says it protects religious and [...]
Dodgers Apologize, Reverse Ban on Drag Group the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Bill in the News (Hollywood Reporter): The original decision to disinvite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and rescind its award came in response to complaints made by the Catholic League and other Catholic groups and [...]
Dodgers apologize, reverse course on Pride Night exclusion
Bill in the News (The Washington Post): Rubio and Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, had written public letters to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred expressing their displeasure. Both argued that including the sisters, who [...]
Dodgers disinvite anti-Catholic drag performers from Pride Night after backlash
Catholic League in the News (Catholic News Agency): San Francisco’s Archbishop Cordileone also shared the Catholic League’s statement on Twitter. He added the comment: “‘Community Heroes’ for this?” READ MORE HERE
“Vocal Point” with Jerry Newcombe
Bill in the News ("Vocal Point" with Jerry Newcombe): In Bill Donohue's new book, The War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class Is Killing the American Dream, one of the issues he deals with is [...]
LA Dodgers blasted for plans to honor ‘queer and trans nuns’: ‘Diabolical’
Bill in the news (New York Post): Catholic League president Bill Donohue also wrote to Manfred “about this unprovoked assault on Catholics.” “Don’t believe the lie that the ‘Sisters’ mean no harm,” he said, accusing the Dodgers [...]
Catholic League Decries L.A. Dodgers’ Award to LGBT Group Known for Drag Queens in Nun Habits
Bill in the news (Breitbart): Catholic League president Bill Donohue denounced the L.A. Dodgers’ decision to give the Community Hero Award to “an obscene anti-Catholic group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.” READ MORE HERE
Annual Reports
Media
Media Archbishop Dolan’s Critics Freak Out In November, following the election of Archbishop Timothy Dolan as the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, critics of the New York archbishop went ballistic. Here [...]
The War on Christmas
November We sent all 50 governors a manger scene to be displayed during the Christmas season, and most did not have the courtesy of even replying. As you can see from the list below, we [...]
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous January 5 Joliet, IL – A large painting depicting the history of Jesus Christ, displayed for the Christmas season, was stolen from a home. January 10 Wilkes-Barre, PA – A student of Kings College was found [...]
Papal
PAPAL WITCH-HUNT In the spring of 2010, there was a concerted effort by the media, led by the New York Times, to blame Pope Benedict XVI for the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. [...]
Executive Summary
Executive Summary Every year in the Catholic League’s history has its similarities and unique qualities. What made 2009 so different from past years was the extent to which government threatened the rights of Catholics and [...]
Activist Organizations
Activist Organizations January 3 San Francisco, CA – Opponents of Proposition 8 vandalized Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, in the heart of San Francisco’s gay Castro community; the California resolution, passed by voters in November 2008, [...]
The Arts
February 12 – 14, 26 – 28 Orlando & Tampa, FL – The art show “Nude Nite” appeared over two weekends in two separate cities. The exhibition featured a couple of pieces that were disturbing. A [...]
Business
March 25 New York, NY – The manager of the New York Palace Hotel was fired after ordering an employee to remove ashes from his forehead on Ash Wednesday. The managing director of the posh hotel—located [...]
Education
January 22 Spokane, WA – Officials at the Community Colleges of Spokane and Spokane Falls Community College threatened pro-life students with expulsion if they held a pro-life event on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The [...]
Government
January 23 Bills were introduced in both houses of the Maryland legislature—sponsored by Delores Goodwin Kelley in the Senate and C. Sue Hecht in the House—that would have continued the duplicitous way private and public [...]
Most Shared Posts
Catholic leaders respond to President Trump over AI image of himself as pope
Bill in the News (Catholic News Agency): In a news release, Bill Donohue, the president of the Catholic League, called the image “dumb, but not bigoted.” “What Trump did was [...]
TRUMP POSING AS POPE WAS DUMB, NOT BIGOTED
Bill Donohue When I learned of President Trump posting an AI-generated image of himself dressed as the pope, I told a CBS reporter that it was dumb, but not bigoted. [...]
FRANCIS’ LEGACY: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY | BILL DONOHUE
Conor Gallagher, CEO of TAN Books (Saint Benedict Press), recently interviewed Bill Donohue at their headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was a wide-ranging and thought-provoking conversation about the legacy [...]
“The Conor Gallagher Show”
Conor Gallagher, CEO of TAN Books (Saint Benedict Press), recently interviewed Bill Donohue at their headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was a wide-ranging and thought-provoking conversation about the legacy [...]