We live in a time when crackpots on the left and the right are surging, conjuring up conspiratorial theories about everything from the January 6 riot to the design of "racist" highways. The nice thing about devil's theories is that they appear to provide conclusive answers to complex problems. The drawback is that they're the work [...]
On August 4, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra declared monkeypox a national public health emergency. This decision was not based on medical conditions; rather, it was purely political. On August 10, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported there were 9,492 cases of monkeypox in the United States. On August 6, a news story [...]
As Bill Donohue pointed out in Common Sense Catholicism, higher education corrupts our capacity to exercise common sense. This is most glaringly obvious among white people; they have spent more time in school than blacks. The latest Pew Research Center survey on transgender persons unwittingly offers more proof of this observation. Respondents were asked whether being [...]
The World Health Organization (WHO) released its updated manual on Gender Mainstreaming for Health Managers. WHO officials boast that they now have "new gender, equity and human rights framework and tools" that will enable them to counter gender discrimination and related issues. The new features go "beyond non-binary approaches to gender and health to recognize gender [...]
In the run-up to the release of the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, those associated with the pro-life movement were targeted by domestic terrorists. On June 17, Bill Donohue wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, asking for his intervention. Here is an excerpt. We have witnessed a rash of vandalism against Catholic [...]
For a half century, abortion has been legal across the United States. Those days are over: the Supreme Court has overruled the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. What is not over is the issue of abortion—the states will now decide how to address it. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the 5-4 majority, held that "Roe [...]
In the May issue of Catalyst, I wrote how elites in our society are bent on dividing us. This month I want to look at technology's contribution to polarization. Not to be misunderstood, I am not against technology; my observations deal exclusively with its ineluctable effects on our culture. When I was growing up on Long [...]
Bill Donohue Few persons have done more damage to free societies than George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire. Yet in left-wing circles, the 91-year-old is regarded as a hero. That may have something to do with the fact that his Open Society Foundations have been greasing them for decades. Soros' fans in the media and education consider [...]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who has been told by her bishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, not to present herself for Holy Communion, has been begging for a confrontation with him for many years. Now she has succeeded. Less than two years after Cordileone was installed as the new archbishop in 2012, Pelosi, who [...]
After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proved to be insubordinate, continuously rebuffing her bishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, she was told not to present herself for Communion. On May 24, she went on MSNBC to say that not only is the archbishop wrong, the entire Church is wrong. She said the Church is wrong about abortion, [...]
