2025 – May Releases

POPE LEO XIV STRESSES CHARACTER FORMATION

By |2025-05-22T11:06:22-04:00May 22nd, 2025|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue Last week, Pope Leo XIV addressed Catholic teachers, making plain that his idea of education transcends the ABC’s. He implored them to “dedicate yourselves to the formation of the young with enthusiasm, fidelity and a spirit of sacrifice.” He specifically spoke to the issue of values. “What, in the world of youth today, are [...]

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WASHINGTON STATE SHOULD ADOPT CANON LAW

By |2025-05-21T08:30:31-04:00May 20th, 2025|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue Respecting separation of church and state is a two-way street. That is the occasion for this letter. Contact: noel.frame@leg.wa.gov May 20, 2025 Sen. Noel Frame 220 John A. Cherberg Building PO Box 40436 Olympia, Washington 98504 Dear Sen. Frame: Your interest in preventing Catholic priests from being excommunicated for violating Canon law if they [...]

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JESUIT COLLEGES HAVE A FREE SPEECH PROBLEM

By |2025-05-19T10:53:25-04:00May 19th, 2025|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) periodically does a study of some colleges and universities, rating them on their tolerance for free speech. The 2025 report on 251 schools found that the University of Virginia ranked #1 and Harvard ranked #251. Jesuit schools generally do poorly, and the latest study is no [...]

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MEDIA COVER FOR COMEY’S THREAT

By |2025-05-19T08:21:23-04:00May 16th, 2025|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue When patrons tell bartenders it is time to “86” that guy at the end of the bar, they mean he’s drunk and should be cut off. In other contexts, it might mean to nix, or to cancel, someone. It might also mean something more serious. When James Comey aligned seashells to read, 86 47, [...]

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SMEAR MERCHANTS ATTACK POPE LEO XIV

By |2025-05-15T08:22:38-04:00May 14th, 2025|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue Few things excite the media more than a juicy sex story about Catholic priests, no matter how half-baked the story is. The latest iteration of this phenomenon came on the day Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV. Wasting no time claiming he is guilty of covering up priestly sexual abuse was SNAP (Survivors [...]

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FATHER GORDON J. MACRAE ON SNAP’S DECEPTION

By |2025-05-14T08:16:21-04:00May 13th, 2025|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

This article was originally written by Fr. Gordon J. MacRae on Beyond These Stone Walls in May 2018 If there exists a Catholic priest still in denial about the agenda of SNAP, it’s because he has lived with his head in the sand blind to the threat lying in wait for him. In 2009, at the [...]

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POPE LEO XIV CITES AI AS A FORCE TO RECKON WITH

By |2025-05-12T12:56:02-04:00May 12th, 2025|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue Cardinal Robert Prevost chose to be known as Pope Leo XIV partly because he identified with Pope Leo XIII’s interest in meeting the challenges of the industrial revolution. Today, he says, the technological challenge comes from AI, or artificial intelligence. He warns that it poses “new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice [...]

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POPE LEO XIV IS NOT FRANCIS II

By |2025-05-09T12:25:34-04:00May 9th, 2025|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue Lots of people are wondering whether Pope Leo XIV is a reformer in the same vein as Pope Francis, or more of a traditionalist like Francis’ two predecessors. It depends on the issue, but to those who think he is a clone of Francis, they are wrong. Importantly, he is not an ideologue. It [...]

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NEW POPE IS WELL-KNOWN ABROAD

By |2025-05-09T08:22:27-04:00May 8th, 2025|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue The voting members of the College of Cardinals elected an Augustinian priest, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, to be the new pontiff. He chose the name Pope Leo XIV. While he is the first American pope—he was born in Chicago—he is not well known to most American Catholics. That is partly because the 69-year old [...]

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MOTHERHOOD YIELDS HAPPINESS

By |2025-05-08T10:31:53-04:00May 8th, 2025|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Bill Donohue As we approach Mother’s Day, it is inspiring to note that mothers are among the happiest persons on earth. Interestingly, this has nothing to do about being a woman: It is women who have families who are the happiest. Indeed, the obverse is also true: single women are among the least happy. The most [...]

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