FRENCH LEADERS COMPLICIT IN BIGOTED OLYMPIC SKIT
Bill Donohue The vulgar parody of the Last Supper at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris was not simply the product of one very sick anti-Christian bigot. There is good reason to [...]
SPINNING DEI FOR KAMALA
Bill Donohue Is diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) a good thing or a bad thing? We have been told by its supporters that it is a good thing, but now that it is being used [...]
KAMALA HARRIS IS NOT RELIGION-FRIENDLY
Bill Donohue In assessing her candidacy for president of the United States, it is instructive to consider the positions taken by Vice President Kamala Harris on several issues of interest to Catholics. She is a [...]
VANCE’S CATHOLICISM UNDER FIRE
Bill Donohue It didn’t take long. J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s pick to be his vice president, is a convert to Catholicism, and already that is a source of anger among the haters. He is being [...]
EXPLAINING TRUMP’S WOULD-BE KILLER
Bill Donohue The media are so fixated on finding a political motive that explains why Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate Donald Trump that they are overlooking other factors. There are psychological and cultural variables [...]
RADIO ADS RUNNING DURING RNC
Bill Donohue The Catholic League is running radio ads during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee; they started July 14 and will run through July 19 (we will do likewise next month when the Democrats [...]
SECRET SERVICE’S CORRUPT CULTURE
Bill Donohue What happened in Butler, Pennsylvania is emblematic of our culture of comfortableness. We are a nation that lacks accountability for misconduct and incompetence, the net result of which is a growing pattern of [...]
OUR PAMPERED ELITES
Bill Donohue When I did the chapter on transgenderism for my new book, Cultural Meltdown, I was struck by the fact that blacks are the least likely to believe in the fiction that the sexes [...]
HARVARD’S PUBLIC POLICY STANCE IS A MODEL FOR ALL
Bill Donohue Harvard University’s decision to officially refrain from taking public policy positions is not only commendable, it is a model for virtually every institution of higher learning. Indeed, it should be adopted by every [...]
THE MEANING OF MORAL RELATIVISM
Bill Donohue Moral relativism is the belief that there are no moral absolutes and that right and wrong vary from one individual to another. Accordingly, disagreements about morality are nothing more than expressions of opinion. [...]
“DA VINCI CODE’S” DECEITFUL GENRE
William A. Donohue When Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code was originally published, we ignored it. We did so because we are generally dismissive of novels. But things began to change when we learned that Brown [...]
RAPING THE CHURCH
William A. Donohue It's time for some straight talk: the Catholic Church is being raped by some alleged abuse victims and their lawyers, and our side is capitulating. Moreover, the rights of the accused, namely [...]
SPINNING INTO DENIAL
As one who debates for living, I find it increasingly difficult to find an honest adversary. It used to be that I was able to engage my opponent in a verbal duel where facts and [...]
CONFRONTING THE CHRISTMAS CENSORS
William A. Donohue John Gibson, who anchors the Fox News Channel's "The Big Story," has written a splendid book about the culture wars over Christmas. It is aptly titled, The War on Christmas: How the Liberal [...]
NOTHING JUSTIFIES COLLECTIVE GUILT
William A. Donohue How many times have we been told—rightly so—that it is wrong to say that all Jews are like Shylock? Or that it is wrong to cast all blacks as Sambo? Or that [...]
ORTHODOXY SELLS
William A. Donohue Forbes magazine published an article in September about an attempt by lay Catholics to help the Church reorganize and get on firm financial ground. That's a noble goal. But when I was interviewed [...]
THE ATTEMPT TO DERAIL JOHN ROBERTS
William A. Donohue Attempts by some Democrats to derail John Roberts' nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court by dwelling on his religion will backfire: the nation has had enough with attempts to impose a veiled [...]
MEET THE NEO-XENOPHOBES
Xenophobia is the fear of strangers, and it typically refers to foreigners or recent immigrants. But there is a new expression of xenophobia afloat in our culture today, and it is one that is harbored [...]
THEY MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE
William A. Donohue The day before he was elected pope, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave a homily before the College of Cardinals warning of a "dictatorship of relativism" that was sweeping much of the world. Obviously, [...]
MEDIA TREATED POPE FAIRLY
William A. Donohue On Thursday, March 31, I addressed some of the law students at Notre Dame University on the subject of media objectivity. But I was distracted all day, listening to reports on how [...]
Catholic League Blasts Joe Biden’s ‘Monumental Ignorance’ of Catholicism
Bill in the news (Breitbart): Catholic League president Bill Donohue slammed President Joe Biden Tuesday for his “monumental ignorance of basic Catholic teachings.” Dr. Donohue’s remarks came in response to recent assertions by Biden that the [...]
Pro-Life Group Wants Republicans to Investigate 250 Cases of Pro-Abortion Violence
Bill in the news (LifeNews.com): Donohue also asked Jordan to specifically investigate Jane’s Revenge, a violent pro-abortion group linked to at least 26 of the attacks, including the firebombings of Wisconsin Family Action in Madison [...]
CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP PUSH JIM JORDAN TO INVESTIGATE VIOLENT RADICAL LEFTISTS ‘JANES REVENGE’
Bill in the news (LIBERTY ONE): The nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization, The Catholic League, sent a letter to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Monday requesting an investigation into those responsible for [...]
Catholic civil rights group asks for House GOP probe into pro-abortion extremist group Jane’s Revenge
Bill in the news (Fox News): According to a copy of the letter obtained by Fox News Digital, Catholic League president Bill Donohue asked Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, "to convene an investigation into the reluctance [...]
Disney’s Disenchanted Kingdom
Bill in the news (Front Page Magazine): Today, Disney movies, shows, and parks are minefields of wokeness, which concerned parents navigate with trepidation to protect their kids from radical messaging and sexual grooming. “Walt Disney [...]
“THE DOM GIORDANO PROGRAM”
Bill in the news ("THE DOM GIORDANO PROGRAM"): Dom welcomes in Catholic League President Bill Donohue to discuss the new film Walt’s Disenchanted Kingdom, which tells how the once beloved company has fallen so far, [...]
The sexual engineering of children. Bill Donohue with Sebastian Gorka on AMERICA First
Bill in the news (AMERICA First-Sebastion Gorka): To listen to Bill Donohue discuss his Disney documentary with Sebastion Gorka click here.
“The Officer Tatum Show”
Bill in the news (Salem): Bill discusses "Walt’s Disenchanted Kingdom" on the "The Officer Tatum Show." Bill begins at the 27:00 min. mark. To listen click here.
“The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”
Bill Donohue talks about the Catholic League's new documentary, "Walt's Disenchanted Kingdom," with Raymond Arroyo. To watch click here.
New Documentary Exposes Disney’s Pro-Sexualization, Anti-Nuclear Family Agenda
Bill in the news (Daily Signal): Disney has adopted a woke “idea of diversity, which sounds innocuous on the face of it, [but] is really an agenda to divide people,” Bill Donohue says. “And that’s [...]
Annual Reports
The Arts
January 17-21 Cincinnati, OH – The Annie Hendy play "The Catholic Girl's Guide to Losing Your Virginity" was performed at the Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park. The play is about a 24-year-old Catholic woman who is [...]
Business
January Los Angeles, CA – Jaguar Distribution, a company that edits movie content for airlines' onboard entertainment, edited the word "God" out of the film "The Queen." After a public outcry, unedited versions of the film [...]
Education
January Fayetteville, AR – A photo of an outhouse that looked somewhat like a church, with the caption "Jesus Saves! And this is where He does it," appeared on a University of Arkansas Press brochure enclosure. [...]
Government
January 9 Lincoln, NE – State Senator Lowen Kruse introduced a bill that sought to curb underage drinking. In addition to banning minors from consuming alcohol in their own homes, the proposed legislation extended to places [...]
Media
Books February Broadway Books released Karl Shaw's 5 People Who Died During Sex And 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists, which contained numerous dubious statements about various Catholic popes. Among the claims: John XXIII was a "former [...]
The Christmas Wars
Activist Organizations November 28 The Anti-Defamation League advised government officials on the placement of religious symbols on public grounds. One of the matters explained by ADL was “Choosing appropriate holiday symbols to decorate school grounds—among [...]
Miscellaneous
January 7 New York, NY – Two 20-year-olds and an 18-year-old were arrested for allegedly stealing statues of the Baby Jesus from nativity scenes over a two-year period. Police said they would not charge them with [...]
Cartoons
This cartoon questions whether presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon faith would hinder his campaign. The Blessed Mother and God the Father are satirized, but the depiction of Jesus, relaxing on the sofa in a crown [...]
The Golden Compass
Over the summer, the Catholic League started hearing about an upcoming film called “The Golden Compass.” The film was to be based on the first book of a trilogy called His Dark Materials written by British children’s [...]
Executive Summary
Every year there is an issue that absorbs a disproportionate amount of Catholic League resources, and in 2006 that issue clearly was "The Da Vinci Code." While many organizations from several faith communities objected to [...]
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