Bill Donohue Sharia is the law that is derived from Islamic texts and traditions. Whether it is more of a friend or foe of liberty is disputed, but both sides can't be right. On March 20, the New York Times ran an editorial taking aim at President Trump's "Islamophobia." Without assessing its merits, what interests the [...]
There is nothing phobic about disliking someone, unless it is wholly irrational. For example, lots of people dislike New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and with good reason: they find his policies to be downright inane, even dangerous. Yet he and his supporters never stop accusing his critics of "Islamophobia." A phobia is an "extreme or [...]
Fact checking is a non-stop business at the Catholic League, and we are proud of our record. Michael McDonald, our director of communications, uncovered some aspects of an alleged war between the Pentagon and the Vatican that sets the record straight. It was recently reported that the Department of War threatened the Vatican with military action. [...]
Sarah Mullally has her hands full. The newly installed Archbishop of Canterbury is facing turmoil in her church, much like that of other mainline Protestant denominations in North America. Mullally, who was a nurse before she was ordained an Anglican priest, took over as archbishop after her predecessor, Justin Welby, resigned following his handling of a [...]
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is being sued by nuns because they will not call their trans patients "they," and they will not put those of the opposite sex in the same room in their care facilities. Hochul identifies as Catholic. The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne operate a Westchester facility that serves the sick and dying. [...]
There is nothing new about die-hard secularists trying to game the courts. They typically like to say that their newly found group qualifies as a religion and is therefore entitled to the same First Amendment protections afforded Christians and members of other recognized religions. However, there is something novel about Hoosier Jews for Choice arguing that [...]
We deal with issues all the time that require multiple rounds of fact checking. That's because there are so many bogus comments, stories, reports and studies that have surfaced that it makes us skeptical. There is no substitute for doing your own homework. The latest "arbiter" of truth is AI. From our perspective, AI is a [...]
