William A. Donohue Entertainment critic Harvey Levin recently tried to convince Bill O'Reilly that the current wave of coarseness in our culture wasn't entirely new; he made the point that there were plenty of examples of incivility in the 1920s, etc. O'Reilly wasn't buying it: he replied that back then they didn't celebrate such in-your-face assaults [...]
William A. Donohue In New York City schools, it is legal to ban the display of a Christian nativity scene while permitting depictions of the Islamic crescent and stars. There are no vouchers or tuition-tax credits for Catholic parents who elect to send their children to parochial schools, but a taxpayer-funded Arabic school has opened in [...]
William A. Donohue It was Marx who said that religion was the "opiate of the masses," and it was the late French sociologist Raymond Aron who once said that Marxism was the "opiate of the intellectuals." With slight emendation, it can be proffered that atheism is today's "opiate of the intellectuals." Christopher Hitchens is not just [...]
William A. Donohue How many times have we been lectured by elites that the U.S. needs to get its laws in line with the Europeans on everything from welfare to the environment? Well, on April 18 our laws moved in a European direction, but the elites weren't applauding. That's because the U.S. Supreme Court moved the [...]
William A. Donohue Every time I think I've heard it all, I'm proven wrong. There is never a dull moment at the Catholic League. Consider what happened during Lent alone. James Cameron of "Titanic" fame threw the first major salvo of the season by arguing, along with Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino, that the Jesus family [...]
William A. Donohue Frances Kissling recently stepped down as president of Catholics for a Free Choice. It was not a quiet exit. In fact, she stormed out the door in total anger. The source of her anger made me smile. You're going to smile, too, when you read this article. "The Catholic right is uglier and [...]
William A. Donohue The cultural elite reek of hypocrisy so bad it's nauseous. In this issue of Catalyst alone, there are three huge examples of just how bad this duplicity is; they involve Hollywood, CBS and the New York Times. In each instance, there was a confrontation with the Catholic League, and in each case we won. On January [...]
William A. Donohue Those of us who are pro-life have two major advantages over our adversaries: a) the scientific evidence is on our side—life begins at conception, and b) we don't have to lie. It is this second advantage, the moral advantage, that is the subject of this article. The other side has a difficult time [...]
William A. Donohue The late comedian Rodney Dangerfield, was famous for his one-liner, "I don't get no respect." If many Catholics, and Protestants, feel the same way today—that we don't get the respect we're due—it may be time to look inwards and ask why. Jews and Muslims get respect. Why? Because Jews, having been kicked around [...]
William A. Donohue As a trained sociologist, my academic experience leans heavily towards nurture-based explanations of human behavior. But a lot of social science scholarship has evolved since I received my doctorate in sociology from New York University in 1980, and much of it shows that nature-based explanations have been too easily dismissed. No matter which [...]
