William A. Donohue Unfair judgments are made all the time. But there is a profound difference between judgments that are unfair due to error and judgments that are unfair due to calculation. We must tolerate the former but never the latter. With regard to the work of the Catholic League, it is the difference between those [...]
William A. Donohue It is not enough to have the right intention. Nor is it enough to choose the right side of a controversial issue. Having the right remedy matters. Consider what happened over the summer in Fort Wayne, Indiana, regarding the play, "Corpus Christi." The Terrence McNally play is based on a Christ-like figure, Joshua, [...]
William A. Donohue In 1998, African American author Toni Morrison stunned a lot of people when she declared that Bill Clinton was "our first black president." What she meant was that many African Americans saw in President Clinton characteristics that were generally associated with being black. Though it is too early to say, there is enough [...]
William A. Donohue "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." Kids who repeat such rubbish can be forgiven for mouthing childish statements, but adults should know better. If anything, history is replete with examples where a lot more than bones have been broken by name-calling. Remember what happened when they [...]
William A. Donohue When someone lies, he is guilty of disinformation, the deliberate dissemination of information known to be untrue. When someone mistakenly provides the wrong information, he is guilty of misinformation. Though in both cases truth is a casualty, only those guilty of the former are properly met with moral outrage. And it is precisely [...]
William A. Donohue Scenario: a group of so-called enlightened thinkers assemble to play a word association game. When they hear the term "bigotry," they respond by saying things like "anti-Semitism," "racism," and "sexism." It would never occur to them to say "anti-Catholicism." But why? It’s too easy to say that Jews, blacks and women have done [...]
William A. Donohue Three men whose lives have been wrapped up in the Catholic Church, only to see their relationship torn, are John Cornwell, Garry Wills and James Carroll. Cornwell and Wills spent time in the seminary and quit; Carroll became a priest and quit. They are mostly known these days for writing the most scurrilous [...]
William A. Donohue There is not a school or corporation that doesn’t mouth the mantra of diversity, whether it be in the form of a classroom discussion on multiculturalism or a diversity seminar for employees. What is particularly bothersome about this enterprise is the rank intellectual dishonesty that colors it. In the language of multiculturalism, diversity [...]
William A. Donohue What happened in the presidential election is a mirror of our culture: politically and morally we are a divided people. This isn’t good for anyone and it high time we started the mending process. One way to start is to examine the sociological principles that undergird Catholicism and then see what they have [...]
William A. Donohue The Holy Father has often said that freedom is the right to do what we ought to do. What we ought to do can be found in the Ten Commandments and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Now contrast this with what the dominant culture teaches—that freedom is the right to do [...]
