2019 – December Releases

 The Catholic League’s 2019 Year in Review is now available. It contains an overview of some of our most important battles and victories over the last year. To read it, click here.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the recently released report on the founder of the Legionaries of Christ: We have known for some time that Father Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, was one of the most notorious sexual abusers in the history of the Catholic Church. Now a report by his order [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the response of the United Nations to the Vatican's new reforms governing sexual abuse: The United Nations Human Rights Commission commended the Vatican for its new directives governing the sexual abuse of minors—the rules closely parallel those adopted by the bishops in the United States—but it could not stop [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on renewed funding for a religious freedom panel: The Senate has reauthorized funding for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an important global watchdog that monitors religious persecution. Those who support religious liberty are delighted with the news, but there are some, such as Mark Silk, who are [...]

Here is a list of some acts of vandalism at Catholic churches that have come to our attention in the past month. We usually see vandals attack crèches this time of the year; the fact that churches are being targeted is even more disturbing. Cranston, RI: St. Paul Catholic Church was vandalized twice in just over [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the conviction of another Church-suing top cop: Thomas Spota, who served as the District Attorney of Suffolk County for many years, was convicted yesterday of covering up for a police chief who brutally beat a handcuffed man for stealing sex toys and pornography from his car. If this were [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on how the left interprets religious liberty: When conservative religious persons speak about religious liberty, they have in mind a robust interpretation of the free exercise provision of the First Amendment. This view is not shared by the comparatively few religious persons on the left. On December 15, Melissa Rogers, [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on reaction to a Christmas display that some find funny: A 24-year-old woman from Kansas took down her Christmas display after neighbors complained for four days. But many liked it. On the roof of her house was a huge image of male genitalia; she used a string of lights to [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on gay-themed Christmas events: We've never heard of gay-themed Hanukkah events, and we sure never heard of gay-themed Ramadan events, but there is a slew of Christmas ones. Maybe that's because the boys like us best. The Ru Paul Drag Race show is being performed at various cities across the [...]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an executive order that President Trump will sign today combating anti-Semitism: One way to stop the barrage of anti-Semitism on college campuses is to withhold federal funds from institutions that tolerate it. This is what motivated President Trump to issue an executive order that will allow Jewishness to be [...]