NORMALIZING TRANSGENDER ABNORMALITIES
Bill Donohue The greatest child abuse scandal of our day is the exploitation of minors who want to “transition” to the opposite sex. Genital mutilation, chemical castration, hormonal manipulation—the very stuff of sex-reassignment surgery—are being [...]
CHURCH-STATE FEUD IN INDIANAPOLIS
Kyle Nazareth Most readers have heard of grand old churches turned into party halls. Holy Cross in Indianapolis should not be one of them. In 2024, St. Philip Neri parish assumed responsibility for the long-closed [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE KILLS, BUT ABORTION DOESN’T?
Bill Donohue The average person is concerned about the environment, and opposes policies that needlessly damage it. But the average person is not an alarmist. This is not true of many climate activists: some are [...]
LEFT IDEOLOGY MARKS VIOLENT TRANS PERSONS
Bill Donohue Violence among transgender persons is a growing phenomenon, and it is being fueled by extreme left-wing ideologies. Their targets vary, but anyone who supports capitalism or Christianity is particularly vulnerable to their attacks. [...]
TRANSGENDER CONDITION IS ABNORMAL
Bill Donohue Transgender persons need all the help they can get, and it is the responsibility of those in government, healthcare and education to provide it. Regrettably too many of those who work in these [...]
ELITES TOUT VIRTUES OF TRANSGENDERISM
Michael P. McDonald This Catholic League report details why the greatest child abuse scandal of our time—“transitioning” the sexual identity of minors—is so prevalent. It exists largely because of the policies adopted by elites in [...]
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY: CHEROKEE LEADER STAND WATIE
Paul Kengor This article was originally published by The American Spectator. Our intrepid progressives have tossed Christopher Columbus and his special day of remembrance to their ash heap of history. They have instead created something [...]
MEDIA INCURIOUS ABOUT D.C. CATHOLIC BOMBER
Bill Donohue What if a bigot, armed with hundreds of explosives, were to turn up at the headquarters of GLAAD, the huge LGBTQ organization, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, and threatened to blow up the [...]
JAMES GUNN’S SICK MORAL COMPASS
Bill Donohue James Gunn is a Hollywood standout. He is a music composer, screenwriter and a director of TV shows and movies. He made it big in 2014 when his Guardians of the Galaxy debuted [...]
THE FREE PRESS SMEARS CATHOLIC CHURCH
Bill Donohue The Free Press enjoys a stellar reputation for accuracy. That is why I was shocked to read an incredible article by Laurie P. Cohen on the Catholic Church. It is one of the [...]
ENVY DRIVES INEQUALITY ISSUE
William A. Donohue When Pope Francis speaks about our "throwaway" abortion culture, or comments on marriage as a union between a man and a woman, he wins no points from those on the left. But [...]
APES AND ABORTION
William A. Donohue For many decades, Steven Wise has been promoting the rights of apes. To be specific, he would like to see chimpanzees awarded "legal personhood." He is most known for championing the Great [...]
CHRISTMAS WITHOUT CHRIST
William A. Donohue Even though roughly 80 percent of Americans are Christian, 96 percent celebrate Christmas. Can non-Christians and non-believers really celebrate Christmas? To some extent they can, just the same way those who are [...]
DIFFERENT WORLDS
William A. Donohue It sometimes feels as though I am living in a parallel universe. Quite frankly, I cannot believe some of the things I am hearing and seeing these days. What follows is an [...]
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 [...]
Donald Trump calls 6-week abortion ban a ‘terrible mistake’
Bill in the News (Catholic News Agency): Though many pro-life advocates condemned Trump’s latest abortion take, Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, told CNA that the former president’s stance is rooted in the difficult [...]
Why Are We Obsessed with the Destruction of L.A.?
Bill in the News (The New York Times): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, comments on the controversy surrounding the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. READ MORE HERE
Teacher-union head slammed for comparing school-choice backers to segregationists
Bill in the News (Washington Times): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, accused her of “Christian bashing.” “The subject under discussion had nothing to do with religion, so it tells us volumes about Weingarten [...]
The Canadian Holocaust That Never Happened
Bill in the News (Townhall): In 2014, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League wrote about a "mass graves" hysteria in Ireland around a claim that 800 bodies were found outside a home Catholic nuns used [...]
Catholic League ‘disturbed’ by House panel report showing FBI offices targeted Catholics as ‘potential domestic terrorists’
Bill in the News (Christian Post): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, sent a public letter [Thursday] to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, after the panel revealed the FBI's Richmond Field Office [...]
Catholic Leaders Demand Answers from FBI on Bombshell Discovery Agency Probe into Traditional Catholics ‘Bigger than Believed’
Bill in the News (Tennessee Star): National Catholic leaders said the FBI’s probe of Catholics, as revealed by documents obtained by the House Judiciary Committee, went far beyond a so-called rogue agent in a single [...]
New York Governor Hochul To Offer Free Healthcare For Prostitutes, Other Sex Workers
Bill in the News (The Federalist Papers): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, was also highly critical of Gov. Hochul’s policies, including her stance on crime and the homelessness [...]
Hochul facing criticism over new health care program for sex workers: ‘Magnet for more prostitutes’
Bill in the News (NY Post): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, bashed Hochul over her crime policies and the homelessness crisis, adding: “Now she wants the taxpayers to [...]
‘Enlightened’ Progressives Anything But
Catholic League in the News (Newsmax): Mainstream media’s dutiful parroting of the group’s dishonest self-characterization—they dress as Catholic nuns and do charitable work—is not even close to describing the depth of their anti-Catholic depravity. The [...]
The president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue
(Wilmington Catholic Radio): Judi and Tara speak to Dr. Bill Donohue, a sociologist, about his newest book, War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream. In this show, Bill explains how [...]
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
GOVERNMENT
February 23 Washington, D.C. – Attorney General Eric Holder wrote a letter to members of Congress announcing President Obama’s decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, stating that it was unconstitutional. The president, [...]
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 [...]
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Representatives of the clergy from several religions were present at the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani. But no Catholic priest was there. Representatives of the clergy from several religions were present [...]
ST. JOHN’S UNIV. REJECTS TURNING POINT
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ROGUE CATHOLIC SHOWN THE GATE
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CAN BOYS CRASH GIRLS’ SPORTS?
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in January on whether boys can compete in girls' sports. The very idea that this has to occupy the time of the high [...]
