MEDIA BLACKOUT ON CLERGY ABUSE DATA
Bill Donohue Whenever there is a whiff of bad news about the Catholic Church, the mainstream media never miss a beat in reporting it. But when there is good news, they go mute. The latest [...]
POPE AND RICHARD DREYFUSS IN THE HOT SEAT
Bill Donohue Pope Francis and Richard Dreyfuss are both in the hot seat for making remarks that some interpret as offensive. The pope has apologized but not Dreyfuss. Are they guilty as charged, or are [...]
NFL GOES MUTE ON McMANUS AND JAGUARS
Bill Donohue Brandon McManus, the kicker for the Washington Commanders, has been hit with a lawsuit by two flight attendants who claim that when he was the kicker for the Jacksonville Jaguars he made unwelcome [...]
BIDEN ADMIN FUNDS ATHEISTS ABROAD
Bill Donohue Congressional investigators recently uncovered that the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor awarded a $500,000 grant to Humanists International (HI), an organization that promotes atheism. While this money was supposed [...]
BOY SCOUTS SURRENDER
Bill Donohue Effective in February, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) will be called Scouting America. The name change was occasioned by years of harassment, lawsuits and bad decisions. The policy changes that the BSA [...]
CATHOLIC KID SCOLDED FOR PATRIOTIC SPEECH?
Bill Donohue wants to share with the public his letter to the principal of a Catholic school. If you would like to contact the school, here is its email address: office@stbonaventureschool.org [...]
TRADITIONALISM SCARES LIBERAL CATHOLICS
Bill Donohue Liberal Catholics joined with the Catholic haters in slamming Kansas City Chiefs’ Harrison Butker after he touted traditional Catholic moral theology in his commencement address at Benedictine College on May 11. The bigots [...]
NORAH O’DONNELL MISREPRESENTS THE POPE
Bill Donohue In her CBS interview with Pope Francis, Norah O’Donnell made it appear that the pope approves of homosexuality. He does not. This is a serious misrepresentation. She mentioned, in a voiceover, that during [...]
PEARL JAM SINGER UNLOADS ON BUTKER
Bill Donohue When Kamala Harris recently dropped the F-bomb, in her sitting capacity as vice president of the United States, her descent to the gutter was noticed by millions. But when low-class rockers call Harrison [...]
WE ARE CLUELESS IN COMBATING SUICIDE
Bill Donohue The latest data show that a record number of Americans are committing suicide. Almost 50,000 killed themselves in 2022, up by 2.6 percent from the year before. We have a mental health crisis [...]
THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE AT 30
William A. Donohue Were it not for Father Virgil Blum, there would have been no Catholic League. A Jesuit professor of political science at Marquette University, Father Blum founded the Catholic League in 1973 as [...]
NOT ALL SEXUAL ABUSERS ARE EQUAL
William A. Donohue It was Jesus who said that “whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around [...]
DISSENT AND DOUBLE STANDARDS
William A. Donohue One of the most spectacular canards of our day is the notion that the Catholic Church is a dictatorship. Not only is this patently untrue, the fact of the matter is that [...]
CONSPIRATORIAL MADNESS
William A. Donohue We live in stressful times but that doesn’t give anyone the right to espouse madness. Yet crazy ideas abound these days and they typically emanate from the keyboards of intellectuals. Just consider [...]
NOTHING COVERT ABOUT ANTI-CATHOLICISM
William A. Donohue I regard the prejudice against your Church as the deepest bias in the history of the American people.” This comment was made by historian Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. to Msgr. John Tracy Ellis. [...]
BIGOTS LYING IN WAIT
William A. Donohue “I can’t think of a time when the Catholic Church had a lower esteem than it has now.” This was not said in regret by one of our friends. It was said [...]
THE REDISCOVERY OF EVIL SINCE 9-11
William A. Donohue Before the horror of September 11 a year ago, only those branded intolerant would dare use the word evil to describe evil. Now every airhead from the Hamptons to Hollywood uses it. [...]
THE DEEDS OF DALLAS
William A. Donohue When the cardinals left Rome in April, they came away with a statement that most branded inadequate. The same judgment befell the draft document of the bishops prior to the Dallas meeting. [...]
A CRISIS OF FAITH
William A. Donohue No figure in the Church sexual abuse scandal is more notorious than Rev. Paul Shanley. Though defrocked priest John Geoghan may be the biggest pervert (he is accused of molesting 130 children), [...]
WE HAD TWO CHOICES: SHUT UP OR SPEAK UP
William A. Donohue The Catholic League had two choices in dealing with the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church: shut up or speak up. I decided we should speak up. To shut up would [...]
Catholic League Decries Joe Biden’s Anti-Catholic Regime
Bill in the news (Breitbart): “Never before in American history has there been a president of the United States who has worked harder to oppose Catholic teachings on marriage, the family, abortion, school choice, conscience [...]
New Details, Strong Reaction To Greenwich School Official’s Comments
Bill in the news (Patch): The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights President Bill Donahue said in a statement that the outpouring of support from so many elected officials has been "heartening." READ MORE [...]
Connecticut AG launches civil rights investigation into Greenwich school hiring of Catholics, conservatives
Bill in the news (Hartford Courant): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said a wide-ranging investigation is needed to get the answers. READ MORE HERE
Greenwich assistant principal put on leave for advocating discrimination in hiring
Bill in the news (westfaironline.com): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, demanded that Boland be fired and threatened to bring legal action against the school system if he was retained. READ MORE HERE
Connecticut School District Suspends Administrator After He Admits to Discrimination Against Catholics/Conservatives
Bill in the news (The New American): “There is no role for an admitted anti-Catholic bigot in any school in the nation. What makes this case a legal slam dunk is that Boland is not [...]
Greenwich assistant principal placed on leave for comments captured in viral video
Bill in the news (NEWS 8 wtnh.com): There is no role for an admitted anti-Catholic bigot in any school in the nation. What makes this case a legal slam dunk is that Boland is not [...]
Greenwich wants investigation after video suggests discrimination in town against Catholics, conservative teachers
Bill in the news (Hartford Courant): Bill Donohue, president of the national Catholic League, said Boland should be fired immediately. READ MORE HERE
Catholic League: White Liberals Are the Real ‘White Supremacists’
Bill in the news (Breitbart): ...white liberals express a deep belief in “the inherent inferiority of blacks,” Dr. Donohue wrote. While right-wing white supremacists are too few to really matter, the nation teems with “well-educated [...]
Catholic dioceses’ pronoun, gender rules cheer conservatives, sadden transgender allies
Bill in the news: (Washington Times): Bill Donohue, president of the conservative Catholic League, praised the Sioux Falls document as “fair, yet firm, and in complete agreement with Catholic moral theology and social teachings.” READ [...]
Why Is Justice Department Investigating Southern Baptist Convention?
Bill in the news (Daily Signal): “One reason the DOJ probe went nowhere is because [Pennsylvania] Attorney General Josh Shapiro (now running for governor) had just finished a witch-hunt grand jury investigation that did nothing [...]
Annual Reports
Government
January 6 Tallahassee, FL — A Florida Supreme Court's 5-2 ruling ended the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which used public money to pay tuition for students who have left failing schools. The ruling ratified the anti-Catholic Blaine [...]
Media
BOOKS January 19 Raymond Khoury's novel The Last Templar was released. The novel is about a couple that tracks down the diaries of Jesus. The diaries reveal that Jesus' Resurrection, miracles and the idea of salvation are [...]
Pope’s critics unload
On September 12, Pope Benedict XVI lectured at the University of Regensburg in Germany. During this lecture, he quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor who said, "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, [...]
The War on Christmas
Activists: A curmudgeon in Warwick, New York, kicked up a fuss about a "Breakfast with Santa" fundraiser held each year by the PTA of Sanfordville Elementary School. One parent claimed that the popular fundraiser, which [...]
Miscellaneous
January 7 Yonkers, NY — Vandals shattered a five-foot-tall statue of St. Bartholomew in front of St. Bartholomew's Catholic Church. The statue was valued at $2,500. January 8 Baton Rogue, LA — Six hundred crosses, erected by [...]
Executive Summary
"The Catholic Church is going to own the month of April." That's what I told Fox News anchor Shepard Smith on April 2, the day Pope John Paul II passed away. Events soon validated my [...]
Activist Organizations
January 3 Madison, WI—In a split decision, a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against a 2002 suit brought by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The panel found that the [...]
The Arts
January New York, NY—The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, headquarters for the Episcopal Diocese of New York, featured a South African art exhibit by Diane Victor titled, "The Eight Mary's." A writer named C.J. [...]
Business / Workplace
January 18 Dawn Eden Goldstein, a copy editor with the New York Post, was fired when it was discovered that she ran a pro-life website in her spare time. In an interview with Gilbertmagazine, Goldstein claimed that [...]
Cartoons
This cartoon obscenely assaults Our Blessed Mother, Jesus and the pope. That a mainstream newspaper would dare to print this shows how debased the journalism industry has become. (San Francisco Chronicle, March 9, 2005) The assessment [...]
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POPE FRANCIS, R.I.P.
Bill Donohue Catholics around the globe are mourning the death of Pope Francis. He touched millions of the faithful, including non-Catholics and non-believers. When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio assumed the role [...]
EASTER BRINGS SIGNS OF HOPE
Bill Donohue Mention the word Easter and what comes to mind is redemption. Ultimately, it’s all about salvation. After the darkness of Good Friday comes the light of Easter. It’s [...]
COLUMBIA TARGETS CATHOLIC STUDENTS
This is the article that appeared in the May 2025 edition of Catalyst, our monthly journal. The date that prints out reflects the day that it was uploaded to our [...]
COLUMBIA TARGETS CATHOLIC STUDENTS
Columbia has a problem with Jewish and Catholic students. April 16, 2025 Ms. Claire Shipman Acting President Columbia University Office of the President 202 Low Library, 535 W. 116 St., [...]