On May 8, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected by the voting Cardinals of the College of Cardinals to be the new pontiff. The Augustinian priest chose the name Pope Leo XIV. He is the first American pope— he was born in Chicago—though he is not well known to most American Catholics. That is partly because [...]
To some, June is Gay Pride Month, but to Catholics, and to traditionalists who belong to other religions, it is Fidelity Month. Bill Donohue was very pleased that he was invited to participate in this event. Begun two years ago by Princeton Professor Robert George, Fidelity Month is a time to celebrate why we are proud [...]
William A. 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. No sooner had Cardinal Robert Prevost [...]
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is zeroing in on the medical profession's role in providing services to sexually confused minors. She will focus on "the medical community's fraud and exploitation of parents and children who have fallen prey to radical gender ideology." She said the Department of Justice (DOJ) will not sit back and allow doctors [...]
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression 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 exception. Fordham ranked [...]
In 2013, Bill Donohue published a monograph, "Myths of the Magdalene Laundries," that debunked the myths about the rotten living conditions in homes for unwed mothers run by Irish nuns from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. In 2014, Donohue published another monograph, "Ireland's 'Mass Grave' Hysteria," that debunked the myths about a mass grave [...]
"In creating men 'male and female,' God gives man and woman an equal personal dignity." That is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches. Pope Francis not only agreed with this fundamental Catholic tenet, he said that those who deny there are only two sexes, male and female, are fostering a false anthropology. Evidently, the [...]
While most people treated the news of the passing of Pope Francis with somberness and dignity, notorious Catholic-basher Bill Maher could not keep himself from making crude and irreverent comments. On the April 25 episode of "Real Time," the bigoted HBO host used the eve of the papal funeral to insult a central tenet of the [...]
Fr. James Martin, the Jesuit champion of gay and transgender rights, recently wrote a column in the New York Times that was intellectually dishonest. He cites the case of Sister Jeannine Gramick as testimony to Pope Francis' outreach to "L.G.B.T.Q. people." He notes that "Her saga began in 1999, during the papacy of St. John Paul [...]
There is so much to say about a pope besides his position on contemporary public policy issues, but since the media are focused on this subject, it is important to know exactly what our new pope has said. Abortion As a student at Villanova in the 1970s, he helped found a pro-life group on campus. (The [...]
