OSCAR FOR RELIGIOPHOBIA WARRANTED
Bill Donohue It is time for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to award an Oscar for Best Performance of Religiophobia. It would prove to be a very competitive field, and would have [...]
DISNEY’S EXCLUSIONARY IDEA OF INCLUSION
Bill Donohue The diversity industry functions more like a religious cult than a group of professional associations. It has a rigid core set of beliefs, and deviations from them are not welcome. Worse, the application [...]
OUR SCHIZOPHRENIC DRUG POLICIES
Bill Donohue The more states legalize drugs, the more crowded hospital ER’s become. But the liberal elites in charge of dealing with this issue are unable to connect the dots. Their policies are downright incoherent. [...]
BIDENS HONOR WOMAN WHO ABORTED HER BABY
Bill Donohue Most Americans are conflicted about abortion, and most are reluctant to condemn a woman who has had one. But they are also reluctant to honor those who have. Not the Bidens. At the [...]
NY WOMAN GOV. SIDES WITH MISOGYNISTS
Bill Donohue Why does the woman governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, want to destroy women’s sports? Bruce Blakeman is the Nassau County executive. He recently signed an executive order mandating that any sports entity [...]
STATEN IS. ELITES SUBVERT ST. PAT’S PARADE
Bill Donohue Homosexuals not only have a Gay Pride Parade in New York City at the end of June each year, there are gay events throughout the entire month. But that isn’t enough. Their relentless [...]
MARYLAND AG ASKED TO END CHURCH PROBE
Catholic League president Bill Donohue has asked Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown to end the investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. It has yielded not a single indictment and the alleged [...]
MEET THE NEW ADVISORS TO THE SYNOD
Bill Donohue The Catholic League has long criticized Catholic dissidents for their unrelenting condemnations of Catholic Church teachings. When they are selected to serve as advisors to the Vatican, that is even more problematic. Three [...]
LGBT MANIA ABUSING KIDS AND PARENTS
Bill Donohue What started as switching the genitals of minors behind the backs of parents has now evolved to the stage where children are being abducted from their parents if they object. This is the [...]
RELIGIOUS RIGHTS THRIVE IN IOWA
Bill Donohue The Iowa Senate has passed a bill protecting religious liberty. Every Republican voted for it and every Democrat voted against it. The vote was 31-16. The bill is based on the federal Religious [...]
WHEN DIALOGUE IS A DISASTER
William A. Donohue Dialogue has become more than a buzz word, it’s become a mantra. Just invoking the word makes some feel good, if not altogether righteous. Like a kid on dope, we expect that [...]
WHY SOME CATHOLICS LIKE “NOTHING SACRED”
William A. Donohue Catholics are not a monolithic entity and it is therefore not surprising that the Catholic reaction to "Nothing Sacred" has been anything but uniform. On the one hand, we have bishops, priests, [...]
FROM VOYEURISM TO IMPERIALISM
William A. Donohue Perhaps the most aggravating aspect of "Nothing Sacred" is the audacity of the executive producers, David Manson and Richard Kramer, to admit that it is their purpose to create "dialogue" among Catholics [...]
CATHOLIC CONVULSIONS
William A. Donohue The Catholic League is dubbed "pathetic" by Father Andrew Greeley and is called "semiparanoid" and "un-American" by David Carlin of Commonweal, a journal of liberal Catholic opinion. Both claim to be exercised about [...]
MORE THAN JUST A PET PEEVE
by William A. Donohue It is more than just a pet peeve of mine to encounter gratuitous slams against Catholicism. To be sure, what I’m going to describe is hardly the worst of what crosses [...]
Crafting a CATHOLIC Conscience
by William A. Donohue In some Catholic quarters, it has become commonplace to assert that Catholics are free to do what their conscience instructs. But if this were the case, then there is nothing particularly [...]
REPORT FROM HOLLYWOOD
by William A. Donohue My trip to Hollywood proved to be productive. First I met with Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks and then I participated in a conference sponsored by the American Cinema Foundation and the [...]
HOLLYWOOD’S MORAL CODE
At the end of February, I will be going to Hollywood to score a few points for our side. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who is a partner with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen in DreamWorks, has invited [...]
DUMBING-DOWN OF CHRISTMAS
If a Martian were to descend on our shores in the month of December, he would no doubt conclude that Christmas is a fun time. What else he would conclude is uncertain, but it is [...]
POLITICS AND RELIGION: THE DOUBLE STANDARD
We spend much of our time at the Catholic League fighting double standards: there seems to be one set of rules for those who are not Catholic and another for those who are. Nowhere is [...]
Jefferson statue’s fate unclear after vote to remove it from N.Y.’s City Hall
Bill In The News (Washington Times): Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on "the future... of a statue of Thomas Jefferson... after New York City officials voted unanimously to remove it from City Hall’s legislative [...]
Catholic League says Biden’s pick to be Vatican ambassador is ‘at odds’ with Church’s teachings because he is ‘pro life’ and supports gay marriage
Bill In The News (Daily Mail): Catholic League president Bill Donohue condemns "President Biden's pick as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, describing former Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly as a 'rogue Catholic' for his stance on [...]
Biden’s pick for Vatican ambassador is at odds with Catholic teachings, watchdog group says
Bill In The News (Washington Times): “The guy is oppositional to the Catholic Church on every major moral teaching,” Mr. Donohue said. “For him to represent the United States at the Vatican is a disgrace.” Mr. Donnelly did not [...]
Catholic League: Joe Biden Pick for Vatican Post a ‘Rogue Catholic’
Bill In The News (BREITBART): Catholic League president Bill Donohue declares "that Joe Donnelly, President Biden’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, is a 'rogue Catholic' despite reports to the contrary." READ MORE [...]
Women’s March Axes Coat Hangers, Handmaid’s Tale Costumes at Rally
Bill In The News (BREITBART): Catholic League President Bill Donohue wrote Thursday about the ban on coat hangers with the blame placed on the pro-life community: According to the organizers of this year’s Women’s March on [...]
Pediatricians File Lawsuit Against Biden’s Mandate that Doctors Perform Transgender Procedures on Children
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Catholic League president Bill Donohue calls the Biden mandate forcing doctors to preform sex transitions "essentially 'a declaration of war on Catholic doctors and hospitals.'" READ MORE HERE
Catholic League President Unloads on Anti-Catholic Film, Church Attacks, Biden — ‘Attack on Western Civilization’
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Catholic League president Bill Donohue blasts "the recent anti-Catholic Bendetta film, declaring the film’s goals as aligned with those of radical groups Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) in their aims [...]
Vocal Point-Dr. Bill Donohue
Bill in the news (Vocal Point): Dr. William Donohue joins Jerry Newcombe on Vocal Point to discuss the culture wars in America, including cancel culture, the war on America as founded, why reparations are a [...]
Catholic League: Education Establishment Is ‘Mainlining Racism’ in Schools
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Education elites are “indoctrinating students with critical race theory,” Dr. Donohue asserts, the result of which is “mainlining racism in the schools.” READ MORE HERE
Catholic League Blasts Woke Sports Illustrated as ‘Anti-Christian’
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Catholic League president Bill Donohue laments "the inexorable decline of Sports Illustrated into woke ideology and anti-Christianity." READ MORE HERE
Annual Reports
Miscellaneous
January 4 New York, NY—Red paint was smeared on two stone pillars near the sanctuary in St. Patrick's Cathedral. January 4 Canton, MA—A statue of the Infant Jesus was stolen from a nativity scene outside [...]
“The Passion of the Christ”
The following is a list of some of the more incendiary remarks made about the Mel Gibson movie, "The Passion of the Christ." We do not maintain that it is anti-Catholic to criticize a film, [...]
Executive Summary
In 2003, the Catholic League celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1973 by Jesuit scholar Father Virgil Blum, the league is dedicated to defending individual Catholics and the institutional Church against discrimination and defamation. That [...]
Activist Organizations
January On its webpage, the Feminist Majority lists under "Feminist News" news articles of interest to its members. For instance, at the end of January it drew attention to articles titled "Women Sue AT&T for [...]
The Arts
January Seattle, WA—An art exhibit at the Roq la Rue Gallery called "Gods and Monsters" featured a work called "Frankenkreist," which depicted Christ as Frankenstein's monster; and "Naughty Guadalupe," which depicted a topless Our Lady [...]
Business / Workplace
San Francisco, CA—Divine Interventions sells sex toys with a religious theme. On its website it offers sex toys that are in the shape of a crucifix, the Blessed Mother, baby Jesus, a nun, Judas, Moses [...]
Cartoons
This cartoon by Pat Oliphant (syndicated, 2/22/03) equates the charge of pedophilia against Michael Jackson with abuse by priests. Besides accusing all priests of being molesters, it continued the false perception that the abuse crisis [...]
Education
January Westfield, MA—Students at Westfield High School who were suspended in December 2002 for distributing candy canes with messages attached filed suit in federal court claiming school administrators violated their constitutional rights to free speech [...]
Government
January Hightstown, NJ—Town Councilman Eugene Sarafin, known for his atheism and inflammatory remarks about religion, twice used obscene terms to describe his Catholic critics. He labels them "Catholic s---." After a complaint by the Catholic [...]
Media
Movies | Newspapers | Periodicals | Radio | Television |Internet | Books | Video Games MOVIES January 16 The Irish movie "Song for a Raggy Boy" made its United States premiere. Although billed sometimes as a true story, it is a fictionalized account of an Irishman who fights [...]
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