NEW POPE IS WELL-KNOWN ABROAD
Bill Donohue The voting members of the College of Cardinals elected an Augustinian priest, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, to be the new pontiff. He chose the name Pope Leo XIV. While he is the first [...]
MOTHERHOOD YIELDS HAPPINESS
Bill Donohue As we approach Mother’s Day, it is inspiring to note that mothers are among the happiest persons on earth. Interestingly, this has nothing to do about being a woman: It is women who [...]
PAM BONDI TARGETS MEDICAL PROFESSION
Bill Donohue U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is zeroing in on the medical profession’s role in providing services to sexually confused minors. She will focus on “the medical community’s fraud and exploitation of parents and [...]
NEW YORK TIMES MALIGNS IRISH NUNS AGAIN
Bill Donohue In 2013, I published a monograph, “Myths of the Magdalene Laundries,” that debunked the myths about the rotten living conditions in homes for unwed mothers run by Irish nuns from the mid-eighteenth to [...]
TRUMP POSING AS POPE WAS DUMB, NOT BIGOTED
Bill Donohue When I learned of President Trump posting an AI-generated image of himself dressed as the pope, I told a CBS reporter that it was dumb, but not bigoted. Here’s why. What Trump did [...]
FRANCIS’ LEGACY: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY | BILL DONOHUE
Conor Gallagher, CEO of TAN Books (Saint Benedict Press), recently interviewed Bill Donohue at their headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was a wide-ranging and thought-provoking conversation about the legacy of Pope Francis, the rise [...]
DAVID HOROWITZ, R.I.P.
Bill Donohue David Horowitz, the former radical turned conservative, died April 29 after battling cancer. He was 86. He was a good friend, a brilliant speaker and writer, and a man of tremendous courage. David [...]
MAHER MOCKS EUCHARIST
Michael P. McDonald While most people treated the news of the passing of Pope Francis with somberness and dignity, notorious Catholic-basher Bill Maher could not keep himself from making crude and irreverent comments. On the [...]
MISSION CREEP IN LEFT-WING ORGANIZATIONS
Bill Donohue What happens when an organization achieves its goal? It either folds or it develops a new one. The March of Dimes was founded to cure polio, and when the Salk vaccine proved effective, [...]
POPE FRANCIS AND THE POOR
Bill Donohue Here’s a thought experiment. There are two teachers. One is known for his compassion for struggling students, but he is not a gifted teacher, and as a result his students do poorly in [...]
SELECTIVE OUTRAGE
William A. Donohue Few things are more annoying, if not downright disgusting, than witnessing selective outrage. In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has instituted an array of edicts and laws banning smoking in restaurants, [...]
HELPING THE POOR
William A. Donohue If there is one thing that Pope Francis and President Obama have in common, it is their professed interest in helping the poor. Both talk a great deal about this issue, and [...]
TWENTY YEARS AS PRESIDENT
William A. Donohue July 1 marked my 20th anniversary as president and CEO of the Catholic League. The vice president, Bernadette Brady, started 18 years ago on the same day. Father Philip Eichner, the chairman [...]
SLEIGHT OF HAND
William A. Donohue The collectivization of guilt, and the individualization of merit, is a common media trick, especially when covering Catholics. For example, if there is a wayward cop, and he is Catholic, look for [...]
DIVERSITY OR INCLUSION?
William A. Donohue On virtually every college campus there is an office of diversity, or an office of diversity and inclusion. No candidate for an administrative post at any college can be expected to win [...]
SPARKS FLY OVER PAPAL TRANSFER
William A. Donohue The lead story in this edition of Catalyst covers the effusive praise heaped on Pope Francis, and the warm reception he received from leaders of other religions. But we would be remiss [...]
OUR ANTI-CHILD CULTURE
William A. Donohue Jonathan V. Last is a senior writer at the Weekly Standard, the prominent conservative magazine that features Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes. He is also a gifted writer, a strong pro-life advocate, [...]
INTERPRETING ABORTION DATA
From The President's Desk William A. Donohue The most controversial social issues of our day, namely abortion and gay marriage, are overwhelmingly funded and researched by those who are advocates for these causes. Similarly, those [...]
SANDY’S UNSUNG HEROES
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William A. Donohue In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we need something to cheer about, especially as we approach the holiday season. I bring you good news, but first a word [...]
MASTERS OF INTOLERANCE
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK William A. Donohue Why is it that the same people who boast of their open-mindedness tend to be the most close-minded of all? Do they not see how utterly hypocritical they [...]
NYS provides $500K funding to Mt. Sinai, others for transgender medical care pilot program as critics cry ‘morally irresponsible’
Bill in the News (NY Post): But critics blasted the funding, saying New York should not be encouraging residents to undergo life altering transgender surgeries. “At a time when European nations are quickly moving away from [...]
Thousands of protesters descend upon Dodger Stadium, take over entire block as team honors ‘drag nun’ group
Bill in the News (NY Post): After the team initially invited the Sisters, Catholic League president Bill Donohue also wrote to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred calling the invitation an “unprovoked assault on Catholics.” “Don’t believe [...]
Catholic Groups Step Up Protests of ‘Hate’ Group’s MLB Honor
Bill in the News (Newsmax): The Catholic League debuted another round of 25 radio ads this week after the positive response to an initial blast that urged KABC Los Angeles listeners not to attend the [...]
‘I Stand With Clayton Kershaw’: Tim Scott Condemns Dodgers’ ‘Shameful and Disgusting’ Stunt With Anti-Catholic Drag Group
Bill in the News (The Daily Signal): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, compiled a list of the group’s most outrageous acts of anti-Catholic bigotry, including a 1987 “Condom [...]
Archbishop to pray for L.A. hours before Dodgers honor Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Catholic League in the News (Los Angeles Times): In an email sent to The Times last week, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights referred to the Sisters as “an anti-Catholic group” and called [...]
US culture wars come to baseball as MLB celebrates Pride month
Catholic League in the News (The Guardian): So the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights launched what it termed an “ad blitz” on local radio in Los Angeles urging fans to boycott the game. [...]
WHY THE LA DODGERS CHOSE ANTI-CATHOLICISM
Catholic League in the News (First Things): The Dodgers' decision to honor the “Sisters” led to a protest from the Catholic League and others. The Catholic League had been following the “Sisters” for decades, and [...]
LA Dodgers’ ‘Drag Nuns’ Honor Marks a ‘Tipping Point’ in Religious Bigotry
Catholic League in the News (National Catholic Register): While a slew of secular media stories offered a benign portrait of the organization as a “charity and satirical protest organization,” the Catholic League for Civil and [...]
San Francisco Bay Times Implicated in Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence/ Dodgers Pride Controversy
Bill in the News (San Francisco Bay Times): During the back-and-forth, Bill Donohue, President of the Catholic League, published a piece entitled the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (A timeline of anti-Catholic actions committed by these [...]
Catholic League launches radio ad campaign urging boycott of Dodgers’ PrideNight
Catholic League in the News (Los Angeles Times): The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights says it will run 25 ads on KABC-AM (790) during a five-day stretch, starting Tuesday, calling for fans to [...]
Special Reports
“Angels & Demons”
Special Report by William Donohue March 2009 Click here to read the booklet, "Angels & Demons: More Demonic Than Angelic."
Bill Maher’s Bigotry
"I have hated the Church way before anyone else." -Bill Maher, May 8, 2002 on "Politically Incorrect" Bill Maher is America's Biggest Bigot. How do we know? Consider the following: Bill Maher, comedian and famed [...]
Obama and Infanticide
2008 "When he was in the state senate, Barack Obama worked hard against a bill that would provide health care for a baby who survived an abortion…. This is called 'selective infanticide'.... There’s been a [...]
Golden Compass: Agenda Unmasked
Fall/Winter 2007 Click here to access the Catholic League's booklet "The Golden Compass: Agenda Unmasked. Watch a video of the Catholic League's Bill Donohue discussing this issue here. A film called "The Golden Compass" opens December 7. It is [...]
Child Molestation by Homosexuals and Heterosexuals
Special Report by Brian W. Clowes and David L. Sonnier May 2005 Click here to view article.
Sexual Abuse in Social Context: Clergy and Other Professionals
Special Report by Special Report by Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights February 2004 PREFACE The purpose of this special report is to put the recent scandal in the Catholic Church in perspective. It does [...]
An Open Letter to the Jewish Community
I have seen the Mel Gibson movie, “The Passion of the Christ,” on two occasions and consider it to be the most moving dramatization of the death of Jesus Christ ever made. It is magnificent [...]
Report on Newsday (NY) and the Church
January 2004 Part 1: General Catholic Church Coverage January 2002-December 2003 Columnists Dick Ryan: “The laity must begin to convince those Catholics who seem asleep that their church is in a terminal crisis that involves everybody. [...]
Maligning Mel Gibson
March 2003 - Present The following quotes represent some of the most unfair statements on Mel Gibson and his film, "The Passion of the Christ." The selections in each category are in reverse chronological order. [...]
“Dogma”
Special Report by William Donohue August 1999 Click here to access the league's booklet on "Dogma."
Annual Reports
MEDIA
Media Response to John Jay Report On May 18, we addressed what the media said about the 2011 John Jay Report on the “Causes and Context” of clergy abuse. Bill Donohue’s analysis of the report is [...]
ATTACK ON BISHOP FINN
Beginning late October, we rallied behind Kansas City-St. Joseph Bishop Robert Finn with vigor: we saturated the community with an ad that the Kansas City Star rejected for political reasons. Indeed, we hit virtually every Catholic church, [...]
WAR ON CHRISTMAS
WAR ON CHRISTMAS November Bellevue, WA – Shortly after Thanksgiving, Bob McLean, a United States Postal Service letter carrier, was taken off his route by his supervisor because someone complained about his Santa Clause uniform. [...]
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS January 20 The president of Al-Azhar, an Egyptian university, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, along with the leading members of the Islamic Research Academy, announced they were breaking off dialogue with the Vatican in response to [...]
Executive Summary
Executive Summary Anyone who seeks to have an impact on the culture is bound to be controversial: it comes with the territory. Moreover, this is not a job for wimps. Judging from the reactions that [...]
Activist Organizations
Activist Organizations January 12 In an article posted on TheWeek.com, Democratic consultant Bob Shrum took a shot at Catholic bishops for their opposition to abortion in the proposed health care bill: “Having abetted thousands of [...]
The Arts
February 11 – 28 Tampa, FL – The Shimberg Playhouse hosted “Agnes of God,” a play based on the notoriously anti-Catholic movie by the same name. In the play, a novice nun gives birth in a convent [...]
Business / Workplace
January 4 Celebrity Cruises announced that it would no longer have priests on board to celebrate daily and Sunday Masses. We immediately followed up by questioning the cruise line about its new policy. Celebrity replied [...]
Education
Education January 17 Colorado Springs, CO – A wooden cross was placed at a prayer circle for Wiccans and pagans at the United States Air Force Academy. The reaction of the Academy was boilerplate. Air Force [...]
Government
Government January-August San Francisco, CA – On January 20, a judge in a San Francisco court allowed attorneys David Boies and Theodore B. Olsen to submit e-mails they obtained between the director of the U.S. Conference [...]
Most Shared Posts
SPINNING THE CATHOLIC KILLER’S BIO
FBI Director Kash Patel got it right when he labeled the Minneapolis mass shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and an anti-Catholic hate crime. Did Robert Westman (who changed [...]
THE INAUTHENTICITY OF ZOHRAN MAMDANI
Bill Donohue Privileged Background Many politicians are chameleons who walk back their positions with alacrity, but it is not every day when someone comes along whose biography and stated policies [...]
WE STAND WITH JEWS AGAINST MAMDANI
Bill Donohue The Jewish Majority, an organization that seeks to offer an accurate rendering of Jewish priorities, has elicited the support of more than 900 rabbis across the country stating [...]
AMERICANS MORE POSITIVE ABOUT RELIGION
Bill Donohue A new Pew Research Center survey on the role of religion in American society is good news for believers, but not for non-believers. From the perspective of the [...]
