WHAT NATIONAL PRAYER DAY MEANS TO BIDEN
Bill Donohue In 1952, Congress designated the first Thursday in May as the National Day of Prayer; this year it falls on May 2. Predictably, every president since has said something positive about religion on [...]
THE RACIAL POLITICS OF SMOKING
Bill Donohue Democrats in many parts of the country have endorsed the legalization of marijuana, and the Biden administration is pushing hard to deemphasize its negative effects. Ironically, the Biden team is hell bent on [...]
CATHOLIC COLLEGES GONE ROGUE
Bill Donohue The Catholic Church is opposed to segregation, homosexuality and gender ideology. Yet many Catholic colleges and universities are holding graduation ceremonies that segregate students on the basis of their sexual identities. St. John’s [...]
BIDEN “RED FLAGS” EVANGELICALS
Bill Donohue President Biden showed his bigoted side on April 23 when he spoke in Tampa, Florida about the glory of abortion. It wasn’t abortion, per se, that got him going—it was those whom he [...]
FBI’S PROBE OF CATHOLICS: UNFINISHED BUSINESS
The following letter by Bill Donohue is in response to the Inspector General’s report on the FBI probe of Catholics: April 24, 2024 Hon. Jim Jordan Chairman House Committee on the Judiciary 2056 Rayburn House [...]
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND THOUGHT CONTROL
Bill Donohue No administration in American history has tried harder to promote thought control than the Biden administration. Orwellian at its finest, the goal is to induce the public to accept its highly politicized vocabulary [...]
WHY ARE LEFTISTS SO MISERABLE?
Bill Donohue It was the day after Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election. I was smiling (I had run Reagan’s campaign in the North Hills of Pittsburgh), but most of the [...]
FBI PROBE OF CATHOLICS STILL UNRESOLVED
Bill Donohue On Thursday, April 18, 2024, the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) Michael E. Horowitz released his report on the FBI's leaked memo targeting Catholics, and once again the loyal sons and [...]
NY AG MISREPRESENTS BROOKLYN DIOCESE
Bill Donohue The Diocese of Brooklyn, ably led by Bishop Robert J. Brennan, has entered into an agreement with the Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James regarding the diocese’s two-decade child protection [...]
WHY IS THE POPE’S FAVORABILITY RATING TANKING?
Bill Donohue The latest Pew Research Center poll on Catholics reveals that Pope Francis’ favorability rating is tanking. The survey does not attempt to explain why, though its findings are suggestive of what’s happening. In [...]
JUSTIFYING ANTI-CATHOLIC BIGOTRY
William A. Donohue Scenario: a group of so-called enlightened thinkers assemble to play a word association game. When they hear the term "bigotry," they respond by saying things like "anti-Semitism," "racism," and "sexism." It would [...]
NOTHING LEFT TO COME HOME TO
William A. Donohue Three men whose lives have been wrapped up in the Catholic Church, only to see their relationship torn, are John Cornwell, Garry Wills and James Carroll. Cornwell and Wills spent time in [...]
DISHONEST DEBATE OVER DIVERSITY
William A. Donohue There is not a school or corporation that doesn’t mouth the mantra of diversity, whether it be in the form of a classroom discussion on multiculturalism or a diversity seminar for employees. [...]
A NATION DIVIDED
William A. Donohue What happened in the presidential election is a mirror of our culture: politically and morally we are a divided people. This isn’t good for anyone and it high time we started the [...]
SEXUAL ROULETTE
William A. Donohue The Holy Father has often said that freedom is the right to do what we ought to do. What we ought to do can be found in the Ten Commandments and in [...]
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
William A. Donohue The Catholic League has moved to 450 Seventh Avenue, right across the street from Macy’s and up the block from Madison Square Garden and Penn Station. We occupy the entire 34th floor on [...]
THE ROAD MOST TRAVELED: FROM BOB JONES UNIVERSITY TO THE PLAYBOY MANSION
William A. Donohue In February we objected to George W. Bush’s visit to Bob Jones University. Six months later we objected to Al Gore’s refusal to stop a fund-raising event at the Playboy Mansion. Subsequently, [...]
THE “AUTHORITARIAN” CATHOLIC CHURCH
William A. Donohue One of the more common complaints about the Catholic Church is that it is an “undemocratic” institution. Indeed, many go so far as to label the Church “authoritarian.” While the first charge [...]
THE CARDINAL O’CONNOR I KNEW
William A. Donohue It was Sunday, October 3, 1993, and I had been on the job for just three months. That afternoon, I went for a walk in mid-town Manhattan and stumbled upon a street [...]
THE IRRELIGIOUS LEFT
William A. Donohue The fact that the term Irreligious Left sounds strange, but Religious Right does not, is a function of media bias. No one uses the former term while the latter is part of [...]
Marjorie Taylor Greene Clarifies How ‘Satan Is Controlling’ Catholic Church
Bill in the news (Newsweek): Catholic League President Bill Donohue calls for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to apologize for slandering the Church. READ MORE HERE
The Complicated Feud That Started When Marjorie Taylor Greene Said Satan Was Controlling the Catholic Church
Bill in the news (Salon): Catholic League President Bill Donohue calls for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to apologize for slandering the Church. READ MORE HERE
Marjorie Taylor Greene says Catholic Church is ‘controlled by Satan’ in remarks on bishops and the Catholic League
Bill in the news (America): Catholic League President Bill Donohue calls for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to apologize for slandering the Church. READ MORE HERE
Marjorie Taylor Greene feuds with conservative Catholics over ‘Satan’ remarks
Bill in the news (Religion News Service): Catholic League President Bill Donohue calls for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to apologize for slandering the Church. READ MORE HERE
Rep. Greene, Catholic League President Spar Over Immigration Charity
Bill in the news (Newsmax): Catholic League President Bill Donohue calls for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to apologize for slandering the Church. READ MORE HERE
Conservative Catholic group calls Greene a ‘disgrace’ over comments about Church
Bill in the news (The Hill): Catholic League President Bill Donohue calls for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to apologize for slandering the Church. READ MORE HERE
GREENE VS. … CATHOLIC BISHOPS!
Bill in the news (Politico): Catholic League President Bill Donohue calls for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to apologize for slandering the Church. READ MORE HERE
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene just slammed the US Catholic Church’s leadership in a 700-word statement, calling them ‘monsters’ who are ‘controlled by Satan’
Bill in the news (Insider): Catholic League President Bill Donohue calls for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to apologize for slandering the Church. READ MORE HERE
MTG touts the Hanseatic vs. Catholic League match-up in the World Series, because Satan
Bill in the news (Daily Kos): Catholic League President Bill Donohue calls for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to apologize for slandering the Church. READ MORE HERE
Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on linking Catholic Church leaders to ‘the Devil’ in new rant
Bill in the news (Raw Story): Catholic League President Bill Donohue calls for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greeneto apologize for slandering the Church. READ MORE HERE
Annual Reports
Education
January Washington, DC—Richard Sternberg, a prominent researcher at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (and a practicing Catholic), was punished by the Smithsonian for publishing a scholarly article by a prominent biologist, Stephen [...]
Government
January Valhalla, NY—Westchester County Executive Andrew J. Spano and other officials attacked New York Medical College (which has been affiliated with the Archdiocese of New York for more than 25 years) for refusing to sanction [...]
Media
Internet | Magazines | Movies | Radio | Newspapers |Television INTERNET January 13 Syndicated radio host Rabbi Shmuley Boteach accused Pope Pius XII of "mass kidnapping" of baptized Jewish children who were saved from the Nazis by the Catholic Church. He based his charge [...]
Papal
Pope John Paul II May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 Christopher Hitchens made an accusation on Slate.com that is totally without evidence: "And it has been conclusively established that the Vatican itself—including his holiness—was part [...]
The Golden Compass
MSNBC "The Situation with Tucker Carlson," July 19; Rachel Maddow: "I think the abortion stuff is going to be a big deal. I think the fact that he said we want to get rid of Roe [...]
The War on Christmas
October 26 New York, NY—In 2005, the Children's Museum of Manhattan honored holidays for Hispanics, Jews, Muslims and African Americans, but not for Christians. In October the museum featured Hispanic Heritage Month, as well as [...]
Miscellaneous
January 10 Detroit, MI—A decades-old tabernacle containing the Blessed Sacrament was ripped from the back altar of St. Augustine-St. Monica Church. After the parish posted a $1,750 reward, the tabernacle, along with a ciborium and [...]
Executive Summary
The year began with the release of three major statements by the Catholic League: a) a report on the Long Island dailyNewsday, b) a comparative study of sexual abuse among professionals, and c) an open [...]
Activist Organizations
January 8 Des Moines, IA—The local ACLU complained that only one version of the Ten Commandments (the King James version) was posted in the Iowa Statehouse. What made the ACLU's complaint so bogus was the [...]
The Arts
January 24 Los Angeles, CA— "A Comfortable Truth: The Story of a Boy and His Priest" opened in the West Hollywood Lee Strasberg Creative Center. The play's website said the work addresses "the controversial subject of [...]
Most Shared Posts
COLORADO’S SICK WAR ON PARENTAL RIGHTS
Bill Donohue It is hard to know what is sicker—a Colorado bill that would gut parental rights or the basis upon which it rests. The bill would punish parents who [...]
FAILED ATTEMPT TO MALIGN OPUS DEI
Bill Donohue This is an abbreviated version of a longer article, “Why The Need To Bash Opus Dei?”, that appears in the April edition of “Catalyst,” our monthly journal that [...]
McCARRICK’S DEATH DOESN’T RESOLVE EVERYTHING
Bill Donohue Theodore McCarrick died April 3 at the age of 94. The defrocked cardinal was known for decades as one of the most influential prelates in America. He was [...]
OPEN LETTER TO DC BISHOP WHO LECTURED TRUMP
January 22, 2025 Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Episcopal Church House Mount St. Alban Washington, D.C. 20016 Dear Bishop Budde: At the January 21 prayer service at Washington National Cathedral that [...]