This is the article that appeared in the June 2023 edition of Catalyst, our monthly journal. The date that prints out reflects the day that it was uploaded to our website. For a more accurate date of when the article was first published, check out the news release, here. As we went to press, we learned [...]
Disney has seen better days. The latest financial data shows that these are bad times for the once family-friendly giant. In mid-May, it was reported that Disney+ subscriptions had taken a nose dive, plummeting by 4 million customers around the world. Its streaming business lost $659 million during the first three months of this year. It [...]
William A. Donohue On April 27, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Catholic League at the New York Athletic Club. In attendance was the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Bishop Peter Byrne, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York, Bishop Joseph Coffey of the Archdiocese for the Military, and several priests, including [...]
To view photos from the Catholic League's 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner click here.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue wrote the following letter to Brendan Whitworth, the CEO of Anheuser-Busch, explaining his concerns about the Human Rights Campaign pressuring him to stand by Dylan Mulvaney, the transgender person who ignited the Bud Light controversy. May 1, 2023 Dear Mr. Whitworth: Anheuser-Busch's reputation has been taking a beating lately, due exclusively [...]
The decision by the Navy to feature a drag queen as a recruitment model impelled Catholic League president Bill Donohue to write a strong rebuke to General Mark A. Milley; several others were copied. May 4, 2023 Dear Gen. Milley: News stories abound about the decline in enrollment in the armed forces, yet conditions worsen by [...]
On March 27, Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old female (who misidentified herself as a male), shot and killed six innocent people in Nashville, Tennessee. The local police said she was planning the attack "over a period of months," and that she had studied other mass murderers. They emphasized that the attack was "calculated and planned." Importantly, they [...]
The Supreme Court is expected to rule in June on a very important religious liberty case; we filed a friend-of-the-court brief. At issue is whether Colorado law can force someone to violate his sincerely held Christian beliefs on the subject of marriage. Lorie Smith is a web designer who filed suit against a law that would [...]
One of the most significant findings in a recent survey by KFF/Washington Post on transgender persons is not even discussed in the Washington Post (WAPO) news story on the poll. The 2517-word story, published May 5, covers just about every aspect of the 26-page survey except for the issue of mental health. It is hard to [...]
Judicial Watch announced in late April that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, along with CatholicVote, seeking communications the FBI may have engaged in concerning conservative Catholic organizations. The Catholic League was among those listed. Judicial Watch is asking for all emails, Lync messages, and text messages sent to and from top [...]
