Michael P. McDonald On July 24, Notre-Dame des Champs in Paris suffered two consecutive fires: the first caused by an electrical malfunction; the second was confirmed as arson which burned wood panels and toppled a statue of St. Joseph. No arrests have been publicly reported. The iconic church remains closed while an investigation is ongoing and [...]
Bill Donohue July 29, 2025 Religious liberty in the federal workplace has long been guaranteed in law, but too often violated in practice. Accordingly, the Trump administration’s Office of Personnel Management has issued guidelines that seek to ensure that the law is followed. Federal employees, the guidelines say, “may express their religious beliefs through prayer, personal [...]
Bill Donohue July 28, 2025 On July 22, an Interim Staff Report on President Biden’s FBI Catholic spy ring was released by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan. Thanks to Kash Patel, the current FBI director, some of the information is new. When pieced together what we already knew, the picture that emerges is one of [...]
Bill Donohue July 24, 2025 We recently issued two statements on what is happening at Georgetown University: “Georgetown’s Muslim Problem” and “Why Georgetown Has a Muslim Problem.” We concluded that its astounding tolerance for anti-Semitism is not unrelated to its being greased by Qatar to the tune of over $1 billion. Yet this Jesuit school publicly [...]
Bill Donohue July 22, 2025 Every survey over the past few decades shows that the Democratic Party is overrepresented by secularists, many of whom are anti-religion, especially anti-Christian. That is why its leaders are attracted to someone who might be able to resonate with Christians, yet appeal to their base. They think they have found one [...]
Bill Donohue July 21, 2025 On July 17, we issued a news release, “Georgetown’s Muslim Problem,” that addressed the legacy of one of its professors, Jonathan Brown. To say he has an animus against Jews and Israel would be a gross understatement: he exhibits a greater affinity to Hamas than to Catholicism. Our response came two [...]
Bill Donohue July 17, 2025 Georgetown University, which identifies as Catholic, has a Muslim problem. There is nothing new about this, but now that it is front and center, it can no longer be ignored. On July 15, Robert Groves, the interim president of Georgetown, testified before the House Committee on Education and Workplace. He told [...]
Bill Donohue July 15, 2025 The Catholic League welcomes the announcement that the IRS has altered its policy on non-profit organizations and their participation in political campaigns. We know from our own experience that the 1954 stricture, known as the Johnson Amendment, prohibiting 501 (c) (3) organizations from campaign activity, is both rife for mischief and [...]
Bill Donohue July 14, 2025 We’ve all dealt with scolds, highly judgmental finger-pointing people who are quick to call us out for some alleged moral outrage. They are annoying, to put it mildly. The corrective, however, is not to become the polar opposite, which is to be non-judgmental about practically everything. The extremes, as usual, are [...]
Bill Donohue July 11, 2025 Anyone who has been following the ordeal of Father Gordon MacRae, the falsely accused priest who has been imprisoned since 1994, is aware of the injustice he has had to endure. One of the persons who has contributed to this injustice is U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante. He is back in [...]
