ELECTION LESSONS FOR PRO-LIFERS
Bill Donohue Election day was a bad day for pro-lifers. They need to learn some lessons if progress is to be made. It is not easy to win when the pro-life side is outspent by [...]
CHRISTIAN BASHERS AIM BEYOND MIKE JOHNSON
Bill Donohue The all-out assault on Rep. Mike Johnson, the newly elected Speaker of the House, is about much more than his evangelical roots: the unrelenting attacks are meant to discourage younger Christian conservatives from [...]
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS SHOULD LEARN FROM BRANDEIS
Bill Donohue Students who support the Palestinian cause at Brandeis University can still do so, but they have to choose a student group other than Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). That’s because this group [...]
PRO-HAMAS AND PRO-LGBT CRAZIES TIED AT THE HIP
Bill Donohue In the late 1960s, while on leave from the Air Force, I came home to see my family in New York City. At that time, I was following the political upheaval that had [...]
SMUTTY MUSIC VIDEO SHOT AT BROOKLYN CHURCH
Bill Donohue Sabrina Carpenter is a diminutive, immature 24-year-old who likes to wear t-shirts with the inscription, “You Act Like a B****”; it’s in reference to a lyric from her song, “Feathers.” She is in [...]
HAMAS DRAWS WIDESPREAD LEFT-WING SUPPORT
Bill Donohue Michael McDonald, our director of communications, has prepared a report detailing the support that so-called progressives have given to Hamas. It puts to rest the notion that those who are critical of Israel [...]
GOV. SHAPIRO’S DUPLICITY IS ASTOUNDING
Bill Donohue When Josh Shapiro was the Pennsylvania Attorney General he went after the Catholic Church with a vengeance for allegations of sexual abuse made against priests, most of whom were either kicked out of [...]
ACTIVISTS ATTACK CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS
Bill Donohue Catholics and Protestants who take their religion seriously have long been the target of dissidents in their ranks who seek to manipulate public opinion. The malcontents were quite busy over the weekend. On Sunday [...]
CHURCH MALIGNED IN CANADA AND USA
Bill Donohue In the 1980s, Jeane Kirkpatrick, foreign policy advisor to President Ronald Reagan and the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was fond of saying that the critics of the United States always blame [...]
ANTI-CATHOLIC HALLOWEEN COSTUMES: A TALE OF THE FETISHIZED AND MACABRE
Michael P. McDonald Halloween should be a time for youthful joy when children don fanciful costumes and collect candy. Unfortunately, because of the endless adolescence of so many adults, it has morphed into a night [...]
Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn appeals to Supreme Court over COVID-19 church closures
The Catholic League In The News (WGN TV’s Newsnation): The Catholic League’s Director of Communications Mike McDonald spoke in defense of the Diocese of Brooklyn challenging Cuomo in the Supreme Court. CLICK HERE TO WATCH
Supreme Court Hears Key Religious Liberty Case
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Catholic League President Bill Donohue provides background on the Fulton v. City of Philadelphia case before the Supreme Court. READ MORE HERE
Traditional religion is seemingly shifting
Bill In The News (The Standard): Catholic League President Bill Donohue states "'It's not going to change doctrine... He doesn’t have authority to do that anyhow,'" in regards to Pope Francis speaking on same-sex civil-unions. [...]
Pope Francis Gives Shout-Out to Knights of Columbus
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Catholic League President Bill Donohue highlights Kamal Harris' Catholic bashing of members of the Knights of Columbus. READ MORE HERE
Catholic League: Joe Biden on a Collision Course with U.S. Bishops
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Catholic League President Bill Donohue opines that "Joe Biden continues moving further away from the beliefs of the Catholic Church." READ MORE HERE
Trump could win again; election polling could die as a profession
Bill In The News (Manila Times): Catholic League President Bill Donohue notes the similarities between the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. READ MORE HERE
Why Trump Will Win Again
Bill In The News (Newsmax): Catholic League President Bill Donohue delves into detail about the polling in the upcoming presidential election. READ MORE HERE
When the rich cry poverty
The Catholic League in the News (Catholic Culture): The Catholic League is cited as a leading voice in the Catholic public policy arena. READ MORE HERE
For Trump, Conservative Catholics Are The New Evangelicals
The Catholic League in the News (NPR): The Catholic League is cited as an influential force in public policy circles. READ MORE HERE
Philly Catholics process pope’s call for legal protections of same-sex unions
Bill in the News (WHYY): Catholic League president Bill Donohue calls for greater clarity in the pope's recent comments about civil-unions. READ MORE HERE


Annual Reports
Media
Movies January The movie "Boondock Saints" portrayed two Irish Catholic twins who decide to go on a killing spree after hearing a sermon at Mass. The sermon is about the results of good men doing [...]
Miscellaneous
January Brooklyn, NY — A new wooden welcome sign at St. John Cantius Church was ripped off the building and smashed into pieces. January 4 San Jose, CA — Vandals struck a synagogue, defacing the house of [...]
Executive Summary
Some of the highlights of 1999 are recounted here, drawn from the various thematic sections that make up this report. There are many activist organizations in the nation which pursue goals that are in opposition [...]
Activists Organizations
January 21 Staten Island, NY – American Atheists announced plans to greet Pope John Paul II with a protest when he arrived in St. Louis the following week. Charging that "the Vatican’s Political Agenda for America" [...]
The Arts
January Chicago, IL – "The Madonna In Spite of Herself," billed as a spoof on the Nativity, continued its Christmas season run at the Sweet Corn Playhouse. According to a review in the Chicago Tribune, the [...]
Business / Workplace
1999 Off The Wall, a greeting card subsidiary of West Graphics, featured a Christmas card with a parody of the Nativity scene transposed onto a modern-day talk show. Joseph is seated next to Mary, who [...]
Education
January 28 - February 20 New Haven, CT – The program for the Yale Repertory Theatre’s presentation of Shakespeare’s "Measure for Measure" was filled with Scriptural references and Catholic imagery, juxtaposed with lewd images and what [...]
Government
January 22 Washington, DC – A Catholic priest entering the Library of Congress was ordered by a security guard to remove a sweatshirt he was wearing that read: "St. Jerome Church Marches for Right to Life." [...]
Media
Movies January "The Ogre," a film about a naïve Catholic man in the Paris suburbs who is seduced into the pagan lifestyle of Nazi Germany, contained "minor attacks on the Catholic clergy," according to a [...]
Miscellaneous
January Watchtower, the official website of Jehovah’s Witnesses, published an article falsely accusing Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church of "silence" during the Holocaust. The article sought to contrast this "silence" with the suffering [...]
Most Shared Posts
DEMS WEDDED TO TRANSGENDER AGENDA
Bill Donohue Eight-in-ten Americans are against boys and men competing against girls and women in sports and showering with them. Even two-in-three Democrats take this position. But the elected Democrats [...]
VATICAN FINALLY DOES RIGHT BY ACCUSED PRIESTS
Bill Donohue Six years after Pope Francis rejected the practice of publishing the names of accused priests, the Vatican has finally codified his plea. Henceforth, dioceses are discouraged from publishing [...]
ST. PAT’S NYC MILESTONE MARCH; TEN YEARS OF BETRAYAL
March 17 marks the tenth anniversary of homosexuals marching under their own banner in New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. When the decision was reached in September 2014 that [...]
MICHIGAN AG REPORT ON LANSING DIOCESE IS FLAWED
Bill Donohue Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released a report in December on sexual abuse in the Diocese of Lansing. It is seriously flawed, though she received no pushback from [...]