2021 – December Releases

The Catholic League's 2021 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 outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's last day in office is New Years Eve.  What he has done to the world's greatest city is incalculable: he has been an unmitigated disaster. He is often compared to Mayor David Dinkins, but the [...]

By Don Feder Mazel Tov to the season to be jolly This article originally appeared on, December 8, 2021 in the Washington Times. I once interviewed Elyakim Haetzni, then a member of the Knesset, who told me that he always supported higher subsidies for religious education in Israel. I was puzzled. “Elyakim, you said you’re an [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on those with no religion at Christmastime: A Pew Research Center survey on religion released last week found that 63% of Americans identify as Christian, down from 75% a decade ago. The fastest rising segment of the population, in terms of religious affiliation, are those who answer "none" when asked [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains why Costco has offended Christians: Why do organizations that have a very good family-friendly reputation find it necessary to offend Christians, especially during the Christmas season? As I recently detailed, the Salvation Army did so by adopting the racist ideas imbued in critical race theory. Now Costco has offended Christians [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on how the NFL and Nike came out on the losing side of an anti-slave labor bill: On December 14, the House of Representatives voted unanimously to ban imports from the Xinjiang region in China that uses slave labor. However, on December 15, the bill was blocked in the Senate [...]

Catholic League President Bill Donohue comments on the great work of Archbishop Gomez: The National Catholic Reporter, which works hard to undercut the Church's teachings on many issues, has named Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez as their Newsmaker of 2021. The dissidents are angry at him for a speech he gave on November 4th. Here is [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the never-ending confusion over the meaning of holiday symbols: Last month a Jewish woman asked a New York Times reporter whether it was discriminatory to deny the display of a menorah in the lobby of her luxury co-op while permitting a Christmas tree. The reply she received was not [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a happy ending to a serious issue involving the National Education Association: Last week, we emailed a letter I wrote to the president of the National Education Association, Rebecca S. Pringle, asking her to "terminate [Mollie Paige] Mumau's membership on the board of directors of the NEA." I did [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest wave of lies told by the fans of abortion: Given the prominence of abortion cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the subject is weighing heavily on the minds of those on both sides of this issue. If there is one thing that everyone should insist on it [...]