ANOTHER JESUIT-RUN SCHOOL TANKS ON FREE SPEECH
Bill Donohue For the past several years, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has published a survey on the status of free speech on college campuses. In my remarks on the 2021 study, [...]
FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS: JESUIT-RUN SCHOOLS DO POORLY
Bill Donohue The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has published the results of a comprehensive survey of over 37,000 students at over 150 colleges and universities; the survey was taken in 2021. [The [...]
CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE DISAPPEARING
Bill Donohue The clergy sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church has long been over and now it is practically non-existent. To be sure, there continues to be a tiny fraction of the clergy who [...]
DISNEY STILL REELING FROM BLOWBACK
Bill Donohue Bob Iger has been hanging around Disney seemingly forever, and every time he quits, he re-retires (he’s done so at least three times). When he left as CEO in 2021, he managed to [...]
MEDIA MISLEAD ON ABORTION POLL
Bill Donohue Media bias is nothing new, and this is especially true when it comes to hot button issues such as abortion. An AP-NORC poll on abortion conducted in late June, and released this week, [...]
PUBLIC SOURS ON HIGHER EDUCATION
Bill Donohue The public appears to be souring on higher education. The level of confidence that Americans have for colleges and universities today is at its lowest level, as determined by Gallup. It is also [...]
SOCIAL CONSERVATISM IS REBOUNDING
Bill Donohue This article originally appeared in The American Spectator on July 3, 2023. It was just a matter of time. Decent Americans have had a radical race and LGBT agenda shoved in their face [...]
CATHOLIC THEOLOGIANS HONOR DISHONORED MAN
Bill Donohue If you asked 100 Catholics who Roger Haight is, less than one percent would know. That’s the way it should be. Truth to tell, the man is one of the most dishonored Catholic [...]
SCOTT WIENER: A RISING STAR?
Michael P. McDonald At the end of 2022, Rep. Nancy Pelosi announced she would not seek a leadership position in the House Democratic Caucus, signaling she might retire soon. While we can only hope that [...]
VICTORY IN SUPREME COURT
Bill Donohue In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment rights of a Colorado woman, Lorie Smith, must be respected when it comes to forcing her to express beliefs that [...]
Utah bill requiring clergy to report child abuse confessions draws criticism
Bill In The News (KUTV, Utah): An organization dedicated to defending and protecting the Catholic Church is speaking out against a new bill that is set to be discussed in Utah's 2020 Legislative session. President [...]
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Mocked the Nativity Scene…and Boston Sports Fans
Bill In the News (Newsbusters): It's not surprising that ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live would think it's high-larious to make fun of Nativity scene. Catholic League president Bill Donohue made the case that Kimmel probably wouldn't consider [...]
Bloomberg Foundation Has Given More Than $13 Million to Planned Parenthood
Bill In The News (CBN News): The foundation set up by new Democrat presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has been donating millions of dollars to the nation’s leading abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. In a recent column [...]
Surge of new abuse claims threatens church like never before
Bill In The News (AP): AP interviews with more than a dozen lawyers and clergy abuse watchdog groups offered a wide range of estimates but many said they expected at least 5,000 new cases against [...]
Questions Of Faith: Exclusive Survey of Catholic Church Employees
Bill In The News (NBC Connecticut): NBC Owned Television Stations across the country conducted an anonymous survey of Catholic Church employees. The results provide a unique perspective on how Catholics in America are served by their [...]
Inside Catholic Church, Many Satisfied With Response to Clergy Abuse, NBC Survey Finds
Bill In The News (NBC Boston): Revelations of clergy abuse have shaken many Catholics across the country, including in Massachusetts, where 17 years ago, journalists exposed a wide-ranging effort by local church leaders to cover [...]
Local Abuse Survivors React to NBC Survey of Catholic Church Employees
Bill In The News (NBC Washington): For the roughly two million Catholics who live in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, clergy sex abuse has caused heartache and distrust within an institution gripped by scandal for nearly [...]
Survey Reveals Employees of Catholic Church Divided on Clergy Abuse and Reforms
Bill In The News (nbcmiami.com): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, a nonprofit that defends the church in the media, said the NBC survey results show employees are falsely conflating old headlines with modern [...]
Australian High Court to Hear Appeal by Cardinal Pell in Abuse Case
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Australia’s High Court announced its decision Wednesday to hear an appeal of Cardinal George Pell, who was found guilty in late 2018 of sexually abusing a choirboy in the mid-1990s. [...]
Catholic League Decries Democrats’ Growing Hostility Toward Religion
Bill In The News (Breitbart): One message resounding loudly and clearly from the latest televised Democrat debate is how hostile the party has become toward people of faith, Catholic League President Bill Donohue said on [...]
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Arts
1996 Michael McConnell’s artwork appeared in the Gallery. One of his best known paintings is "Celibate Sacrifice"; it features a ghostly skeleton dressed as the pope walking on top of masses of people who appear to [...]
Cartoons 1996
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Commercial Establishments
1996 In a catalog of its books, Barnes & Noble featured a long description of a book called The Love Affairs of the Vatican. Calling the book "controversial," it read: "He [the author] also reveals that [...]
Government
February The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Army violated the First Amendment by denying couples who provided day care in their homes the right to engage in religious activity as part [...]
Criminal Behavior
1996 President Clinton's veto of the legislation banning Partial-Birth Abortion.
Education
January A Catholic high school student applied for the Jefferson Scholars Program at the University of Virginia. He was asked the following questions about his religion during the course of an interview: "What is your [...]
Media
1996 Austin, TX - Living Truth Ministries distributed a video, The Pope Over Jerusalem, which discusses the "unholy" plans of the Pope to reign over Jerusalem. Among the topics explored are the "hidden agenda of a high-ranking [...]
Workplace
January Louisville, CO - Video Training Source made two videos about workplace violence prevention in which being religious was portrayed as a key characteristic. In "A Strategy for Prevention" the narrator said, "Many perpetrators are described as [...]
Executive Summary
Before introducing the evidence, a few words are in order regarding some of the highlights of the year. While it is true that there are activist organizations that are clearly aligned against the Catholic Church [...]
Activists
January 2 San Francisco, CA - About 200 members of the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights, the Women's Action Coalition and other pro-choice groups demonstrated outside St. Mary's Cathedral, blocking the street to protest [...]
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