THE CRISIS OF TRANSGENDER VIOLENCE
Bill Donohue It is commonplace for LGBTQ activists, as well as many in the media, education and government, to complain about the high rates of violence that transgender persons experience. But with the exception of [...]
WE LOST AN HONEST LIBERAL SCHOLAR
Bill Donohue Unlike most sociologists, I am not a man of the Left. Moreover, I have little respect for most of what passes as sociology today. But Durkheim was still right—it is the queen of [...]
CULTURAL CORRECTION LONG OVERDUE
Bill Donohue Economists often note that the stock market occasionally goes into spasms, or sudden downturns that gets everyone nervous. But, they caution, such changes are often necessary: they amount to a market correction. Cultures [...]
WASHINGTON STATE WEIGHS ATTACK ON CONFESSIONAL
Bill Donohue The state of Washington is considering a House and Senate bill that would bust the seal of the confessional, without doing anything to check the sexual abuse of minors. To read my letter, [...]
TRUMP NAMES TASK FORCE ON ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS
Bill Donohue President Donald Trump announced today that he is forming a new Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty. To accomplish this goal, he appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi to chair a task force to “eradicate [...]
BUTTIGIEG FLEES WORLD OF THEY/THEM/THEIRS
Bill Donohue Pete Buttigieg, the former Secretary of Transportation, is known in LGBTQ circles as the self-described “Pronoun Warrior.” But now the homosexual politician has removed the “He/Him” pronouns from his social media account. This [...]
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS ADVISES CHURCH ON SCANDAL
Bill Donohue In violation of a court order, someone leaked some 300 email exchanges between the New Orleans Saints and the Archdiocese of New Orleans that show how the football team provided public relations advice [...]
VANCE IS RIGHT ABOUT CHRISTIAN LOVE
Bill Donohue J.D. Vance makes a commonsensical comment about a Christian notion of love and immediately he is subjected to condemnation. Here is what he said that has “progressives” so upset. “There’s this old school—and [...]
THE POLITICS OF THE “NAZI SALUTE”
Bill Donohue At an Inaugural rally on January 20, Elon Musk raised his hand in a celebratory moment to salute the crowd. He was instantly accused of making the “Nazi salute.” Now he has been [...]
THE DEATH OF DEI
Bill Donohue DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) policies are dying. This became inevitable once the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions in 2023. Subsequently, the corporate elite began to reconsider the wisdom [...]
VETTING CATHERINE CORLESS
William A. Donohue To the media in Ireland and England, and to some outlets in the United States, Catherine Corless is an Irish hero, a brave woman who uncovered a "mass grave" outside a Mother [...]
THOSE “EVIL” IRISH NUNS
William A. Donohue When it comes to women, men have learned to be careful not to sound sexist or condescending. If they are perceived as such, they will be stigmatized. There is one exception: they [...]
POLITICIZING THE CULTURE
William A Donohue Politics is everywhere, and it's getting out of control. We now have the likes of LeBron James and Serena Williams, two talented athletes, publicly taking up the cause of Black Lives Matter, [...]
TRUMP WILL BE RELIGION-FRIENDLY
From The President's Desk William A. Donohue January/February 2017 Issue of Catalyst None of the three biggest vote getters in the primaries—Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders—are known for their deeply rooted religious convictions. [...]
THE EGGHEADS BLEW IT
William A. Donohue I tweeted the following on November 4. "Bill Kristol, who has been wrong all along, now says Hillary will win bigger than Obama did in 2012. My takeaway—it's good news for Trump." [...]
WOMEN’S MORAL DESCENT
William A. Donohue In every society throughout history, young men have been the most violent, risk-taking, promiscuous, and reckless segment of society. If men have been the most morally destitute, women have been, or at [...]
SOROS-FUNDED CATHOLIC LEFT IS DISHONEST
Catholics are as divided as the rest of the nation when it comes to voting, and many look to activist Catholic groups for guidance. While there are good people on both sides, not every organization [...]
POLITICALLY HOMELESS CATHOLICS
William A. Donohue Historically, the Republican Party has been associated with Protestants, and the Democrats have been the choice of Catholics. "From the 1840s, when Democratic ward-heelers greeted the first great waves of Catholic immigrants [...]
MOTHER TERESA’S FAILED CRITICS
William A. Donohue On September 4, the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, Mother Teresa will be canonized. Already a saint in the eyes of most persons, regardless of religion, she is clearly deserving of this [...]
LOOKING BACK
July 1 marks my 23rd anniversary as president of the Catholic League. As such, now is a good time to reflect on our record. One of the raps on the Catholic League has been that [...]
Staten Island to hold St. Patrick’s Day Parade welcoming LGBTQ groups for the first time
Bill in the News (2 CBS News NY):The larger Manhattan St. Patrick's Day parade lifted its ban on LGBTQ groups marching in 2014, but Staten Island still hasn't. We tried contacting the organizer, but there [...]
New York Cathedral Holds ‘Mass of Reparation’ After ‘Sacrilegious’ Trans Event
Bill in the News (Breitbart): “At the service, many of those in attendance dressed as hookers, danced in the aisles, sang ‘Ave Cecilia’ when ‘Ave Maria’ was sung, and shouted, ‘St. Cecilia, Mother of All [...]
Archdiocese of New York denounces transgender activist’s funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Bill in the News (FOX 5 NY): Bill Donohue, from the more conservative Catholic League writing: "...men dressed as women and women dressed as men ... At the service, many of those in attendance dressed [...]
Joe Biden: Climate Change Is ‘More Consequential’ Than Nuclear War
Bill in the News (Breitbart): “On Friday, Catholic League President Bill Donohue pointed out that the president’s assessment of the problems facing the nation is wildly out of sync with the views of ordinary Americans." [...]
Joe Biden Appoints Radical Anti-Christian Leftist John Podesta to Replace John Kerry
Bill in the News (LifeNews.com): “In the case of Podesta, not only is his fidelity misplaced, he has actively sought to subvert the Catholic Church,” Donohue continued. “To be specific, we learned in 2016 that [...]
Biden’s New Appointment ‘Aiding and Abetting Sabotage within the Catholic Church’
Bill in the News (The Washington Stand): “If a non-Catholic president chose Podesta for a senior post in his administration, we would brand it as anti-Catholic,” Donohue told TWS. “When a president who identifies as [...]
Letters: The ACLU
Bill in the News (First Things): Helen Andrews’s “What Happened to the ACLU” (December 2023) offers a cogent analysis of the ACLU’s return to left-wing politics. In the course of writing a PhD dissertation, two [...]
Catholic group demands MSNBC apologize for Joy Reid’s ‘white Christians’ comment
Bill in the News (Christian Post): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, wrote a letter to MSNBC President Rashida Jones and Comcast President Michael Cavanagh Wednesday. Donohue’s letter comes [...]
Catholic League Hits MSNBC for Smearing Christians
Bill in the News (Newsmax): Catholic League President Bill Donohue on Wednesday slammed MSNBC for "recent anti-Christian attacks" by network hosts and guests, calling for a "vigorous network response." In a letter to MSNBC President [...]
Catholic League Forum: 2023 Year in Review
In this episode of Catholic League Forum Catholic League president Bill Donohue and director of communications Mike McDonald give an overview of the 2023 Year in Review highlighting the major victories the League has had [...]
Special Reports
BILL DONOHUE’S LETTER OF COMPLAINT TO THE U.N.
Bill Donohue mailed a formal complaint on May 15, 2014, with documentation, to the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations in Geneva regarding the conduct of Felice Gaer, Vice-Chairperson of the U.N. [...]
The Limbaugh Letter, “My Conversation with Bill Donohue”
The following article appeared in the April 2014 edition of The Limbaugh Letter. Reprinted with permission from The Limbaugh Letter, ©2014 Premiere Networks, Inc. For additional information, or to subscribe to The Limbaugh Letter please [...]
BISHOPACCOUNTABILITY’S REPORT ON POPE FRANCIS
According to BishopAccountability.org, "He [the pope when he was a bishop in Argentina] released no documents, no names of accused priests, no tallies of accused priests, no policy for handling abuse, not even an apology [...]
DEBUNKING “PHILOMENA”
To read Bill Donohue's special report on the anti-Catholic film, "Philomena," click here.
ON THE FRONT LINE OF THE CULTURE WAR: RECENT ATTACKS ON THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
To read Bill Donohue's special report,"On the Front Line of the Culture War: Recent Attacks on the Boy Scouts of America," Click here.
MYTHS OF THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES
Bill Donohue President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Prejudice, as the psychologist Gordon W. Allport stressed, is always an “unwarranted” attitude. If someone experiences severe discomfort by eating certain foods, there is nothing [...]
STAR-LEDGER’S WAR ON ARCHBISHOP MYERS
Bill Donohue President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights May 2013 On April 28, an editorial in the Newark Star-Ledger called on Newark Archbishop John J. Myers to resign. There should be a resignation, [...]
OBAMA’S WAR ON RELIGION
Bill Donohue In September 2012, Bill Donohue wrote a four-part series that was featured on Newsmax.com. The series focused on the war on religion that has been waged by the administration of President Barack Obama. [...]
Some Key Misunderstandings Regarding the Child Sexual Abuse Scandal and the Catholic Church
Some Key Misunderstandings Regarding the Child Sexual Abuse Scandal and the Catholic Church William O’Donohue, Ph.D. Olga Cirlugea, B.A. Lorraine Benuto, Ph.D. Department of Psychology University of Nevada, Reno We are clinical psychologists (the second [...]
STATEMENT TO THE DULUTH COMMUNITY: UNIV. OF MINNESOTA DULUTH HOLOCAUST EVENT
Dr. William A. Donohue President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights April 10, 2012 It has come to my attention that the University of Minnesota Duluth is hosting a series of events on the [...]
Annual Reports
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS
The following article by Bill Donohue was published by Newsmax on December 18, 2013: There are signs that the "War on Christmas" is abating. In 1994, a year after I took over as president of [...]
MISCELLANEOUS
January 7 New York, NY – At the New York Film Critics Circle Award, Michael Moore presented the Best First Film to David France for his documentary celebrating gay activism, "How to Survive a Plague." [...]
PREFACE
People often ask me what’s hopping at the Catholic League, and what issue we will be tackling next. After I bring them up to date, they’re usually perplexed to learn that I really don’t know [...]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Anti-Catholicism is as ugly as any other form of bigotry, though many do not agree. That is why some bigots are condemned while others are tolerated, if not commended. Generally speaking, it’s the elites who [...]
ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS
January – February Cranston, RI – The Cranston School Committee voted not to appeal a decision by U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Lagueux mandating the removal of a prayer mural from the wall of an [...]
THE ARTS
February 29 – March 4 Fort Lauderdale, FL – Parker Playhouse featured a five-day run of Matthew Lombardo’s play, “High,” with Kathleen Turner starring as a recovering alcoholic, gutter-mouth nun. Convinced of his special claim [...]
BUSINESS/WORKPLACE
February 24 New York, NY – Rep. Michael Grimm requested that the Empire State Building shine red in honor of the elevation of New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan to cardinal. Grimm’s request was denied by [...]
EDUCATION
January 21 – September 21 Nashville, TN – On January 21, Vanderbilt University administrators announced the new “nondiscrimination” policy that stipulated that religious student groups could no longer require their leaders to agree with the [...]
GOVERNMENT
January 11 Washington, D.C. – In a unanimous decision (Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that churches are entitled to make employment decisions without interference by the government. [...]
MEDIA
MEDIA RESPONSE TO VATICAN INQUIRY OF LCWR Once again, an internal matter of the Catholic Church became fodder for media voyeurs, pundits and talking heads when a number of dissident nuns became the subject of [...]
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