2020 – December Releases

The Catholic League's 2020 Year in Review is now available. It contains an overview of some of our most important battles and victories over the last year. To read it, click here.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on another court victory for religious liberty: On December 28, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Diocese of Brooklyn and the Orthodox Jewish group Agudath Israel in their attempts to overturn the tyrannical edicts of Governor Andrew Cuomo: he loves to impose occupancy limits on houses [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the increase in anti-Catholicism in 2020: There is plenty of empirical evidence to conclude that anti-Catholicism grew by leaps and bounds in 2020: church vandalism, much of it done to make a political statement, was rampant in those parts of the country where mob rule was tolerated; Covid restrictions [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on why minority students are still struggling: It is one of history's greatest ironies: No segment of society punishes the poor more than those who champion their cause. This is true historically in nations claimed by Marxism, and in democratic nations today claimed by liberalism. Rhetoric aside, the left always [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue is asking everyone to push one more time for the release of a Thai man who is still in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): Earlier this month, I asked everyone to appeal to the White House requesting that Pornchai Moontri be released from ICE. For those of [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest battle for conscience rights: "I cannot take the life of a child in one room and guide another child into this world in the next." Those are the words of Regina Frost, a Christian doctor who earlier this year expressed her disdain for Planned Parenthood and the [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on reaction to vandalized Black Lives Matter (BLM) banners: The media and left-wing activists never expressed anger when Catholic churches and iconic Catholic statues were being vandalized and destroyed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter, but now—all of a sudden—they are up in arms over BLM banners being burned outside [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on media reaction to Joe Biden's faith: CNN ran a piece December 13 noting that Joe Biden goes to church, prays, and carries a rosary. Right after the election, America, the Jesuit media outlet, commented that Biden prays and carries a rosary. Back in September, NPR observed that Biden uses [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the Catholic League's nativity scene on public property: Today, the Catholic League erected a life-size nativity scene in Central Park, on a piece of public property in front of the Plaza Hotel, between 58th and 59th Street on 5th Avenue. We received a permit from the New York City [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue shares a Christmas victory: The Catholic League was contacted this week by Knights of Columbus Council #275, in upstate New York, about their being denied the right to erect a nativity scene outside the Ulster County office building, something they had done for many years. On December 9, I wrote a [...]