NEXT UP—NEW SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
Bill Donohue According to the Washington Post, Donald Trump won the Catholic vote 56 percent to 41 percent. That’s a great triumph for religious liberty. As we previously documented, there were far more victories for [...]
HARRIS HAS A PROBLEM WITH CHRISTIANS
This article appeared in The American Spectator on Oct. 25 Bill Donohue Vice President Kamala Harris occasionally attends a Baptist church, but she still has a problem with Christians. So does her boss. Biden attends Mass [...]
ROGAN’S COMMENTS ON ABORTION DISSECTED
Bill Donohue When J.D. Vance sat down with Joe Rogan for a three-hour interview, the subject of abortion came up. Rogan expressed concern about the different state laws on abortion, saying the issue “is essentially [...]
MEDIA COVER-UP FOR HARRIS
Bill Donohue Our normally curious media are noticeably incurious regarding several serious matters involving Kamala Harris. Why the silence on issues that the voters have every right to know about? Harris is rarely asked when [...]
MEET THE CATHOLICS WHO SUPPORT HARRIS
Bill Donohue As we have pointed out numerous times, Kamala Harris has not endeared herself to Catholics. Her policies on abortion, marriage, the family, sexuality, religious liberty and school choice are all contrary to Catholic [...]
WASHINGTON POST NEEDS A REALITY CHECK
Bill Donohue Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, lives in the real world, but many of his readers and writers do not. He knows the media have lost their credibility but the others [...]
KAMALA’S RACIST IDEA OF BLACK MEN
Bill Donohue We all possess several statuses. For example, Kamala Harris is Vice President of the United States, a woman, and a descendant of slavemasters. Furthermore, we all have a master status, the one that [...]
KAMALA CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT ABORTION
Bill Donohue When Trump was in office, the average year-over-year inflation rate was 1.9 percent. It has soared under Biden-Harris, making it the number-one issue for voters. Under Trump, illegal immigration was tamed, but under [...]
CATHOLIC CHURCHES TARGETED IN NYC
Bill Donohue In the last six months, four Catholic churches in New York City have been vandalized, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral was invaded during Mass for the second time this year. Here are the data. [...]
LAUGHING AT ABORTION
Bill Donohue Can abortion be funny? Some think so. While most liberals would not agree that it is, it remains true that the only ones who do are secular liberals. Some are prominent Americans. If [...]
POPE WELCOMES CATHOLIC DISSIDENTS
This is the article that appeared in the October 2023 edition of Catalyst, our monthly journal. The date that prints out reflects the day that it was uploaded to our website. For a more accurate [...]
HATING #1
William A. Donohue The United States is the richest and most powerful nation on earth. New York City is largely regarded as the number-one international city. The New York Yankees have the most World Series [...]
SOCIAL CONSERVATISM IS REBOUNDING
William A. Donohue This article originally appeared in The American Spectator on July 3, 2023. It was just a matter of time. Decent Americans have had a radical race and LGBT agenda shoved in their [...]
30 YEARS AND COUNTING
William A. Donohue July 1 marked my 30th year as president and CEO of the Catholic League. Bernadette Brady-Egan, our vice president, celebrated her 28th anniversary on the same day. We've had a good run, [...]
50th ANNIVERSARY DINNER WAS A HIT
William A. Donohue On April 27, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Catholic League at the New York Athletic Club. In attendance was the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Bishop Peter Byrne, [...]
WHY I WROTE WAR ON VIRTUE
William A. Donohue War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream is a book I had to get off my chest. To be blunt, I am seething mad at the smug, [...]
CELEBRATING OUR 50th ANNIVERSARY
William A. Donohue Fr. Virgil Blum founded the Catholic League in April 1973. On April 27, we will celebrate our 50th anniversary. Fr. Blum was a Jesuit professor of political science at Marquette University, and [...]
WHEN DISHONESTY IS THE NORM
Being ethically inconsistent is a trait that is universal, no matter how hard we try to be consistent. Usually, it doesn't matter too much, and that is because our shortcomings are limited to a small [...]
ABORTION IN THE POST-ROE ERA
William A. Donohue No institution in American history has been more resolute in its opposition to abortion than the Catholic Church. Protestants and Jews were almost in lockstep praising Roe v. Wade in 1973, largely [...]
WHY WE DID THE DISNEY MOVIE
William A. Donohue When I was in the 7th grade, I was asked by one of my nun teachers who was the person I most admired. I said Walt Disney. When asked why, I simply [...]
Catholic League Rips Gov. Whitmer for Mocking Eucharist
Bill in the News (Newsmax): The Catholic League said Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer committed political suicide by mocking the Eucharist in a video on Instagram. In the video, Whitmer, wearing a Harris-Walz camo hat, places [...]
Catholic League blasts Whitmer for mocking Eucharist
Bill in the News (The Hill): The Catholic League criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Friday for posting a video showing her feeding a Dorito to a podcaster, with the group accusing her of [...]
Kamala Harris Has a Catholic Problem
Bill in the News (Beyond These Stone Walls): Beyond These Stone Walls has had an ever-increasing presence in the work of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. In the July/August, 2024, issue of [...]
A God Shift Podcast
Bill in the News (A God Shift Podcast): Bill Donohue discusses his new book, Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, on "A God Shift Podcast" with Shayna Rattler. To listen, click here.
Catholic League: Kamala Harris Is ‘Smart’ to Skip the Al Smith Dinner
Bill in the News (Breitbart): “Trump is pro-life, pro-school choice and pro-religious liberty,” Donohue writes, while Harris is “anti-life, anti-school choice and anti-religious liberty.” Harris supports abortion-on-demand, never favoring a single restriction on what she [...]
Catholic League Boss: Harris Ill-Suited for Al Smith Dinner
Bill in the News (Newsmax): Catholic League President Bill Donohue skewered Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris for skipping the Al Smith charity dinner next month while noting she "talks like a preschooler," is short on [...]
Cardinal Dolan: Harris received ‘bad advice’ to skip Catholic charity dinner
Bill in the News (Catholic News Agency): Meanwhile, Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, told CNA that the dinner plays to Trump’s strengths and Harris’ weaknesses, creating what he [...]
Harris to skip Catholic charity dinner bucking decades-long tradition
Bill in the News (Catholic News Agency): Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, a national Catholic civil rights group, told CNA that Harris’ decision is “probably a good move” given the format of the [...]
“EWTN Live”
Bill Donohue discusses his new book, Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, on "EWTN Live" with Fr. Mitch Pacwa. To watch, click here.
Catholics for Trump Launches to Help Former President Defeat Pro-Abortion Radical Kamala Harris
Bill in the News (LifeNews): Catholic League President Bill Donohue explained, “Most practicing Catholics are pro-life (the non-practicing ones are more in tune with the secular pro-abortion side), but they also want to win, and [...]
Special Reports
GOV. ABBOTT MADE IMMIGRATION #1 ISSUE
Bill Donohue Whether one agrees with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to bus illegal aliens to sanctuary cities around the country or not, it is indisputable that he is responsible for making immigration the Number [...]
Catholic League Campaign Against The Dodgers
To read the special report on the Catholic League's campaign against the LA Dodgers click here.
SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE
Bill Donohue (A timeline of anti-Catholic actions committed by these bigots) 1979: This was the beginning of the Sisters. In San Francisco’s Castro District three men dressed in traditional nun’s habit walked the streets. One [...]
Sexualizing Children in Schools
This report by the Catholic League shows beyond a doubt how morally corrupt many of our public schools have become. Perversely, it is not suitable to read by the very audience that is being targeted. [...]
SURVEY OF CATHOLICS IS MOSTLY PROMISING
Bill Donohue The Catholic League commissioned McLaughlin & Associates to do a national survey of Catholics. From September 3-12, they polled 800 Catholics in an online survey. What follows is an abbreviated analysis of what [...]
CHURCH VANDALISM
Over the past few years, beginning with the urban riots that took place in 2020, there was a rash of anti-Catholic crimes across the nation. Monuments were destroyed, iconic statues were bludgeoned, gravesites were desecrated, [...]
COLUMBUS BASHING IS UNWARRANTED
In recognition of Columbus Day, we are offering a three-part series on this subject. In the first part we will address the origins of the assault on Columbus. In the second part, we will offer [...]
TRANSGENDER REPORTS ARE STARTLING
Bill Donohue Now that the new school year is upon us, it is important for parents to understand how the sexual engineers in education are trying to program students into accepting gender ideology. To that [...]
PRESIDENT BIDEN’S POLICIES: DEPARTURES FROM CATHOLIC TEACHINGS
This is an ongoing documentation of President Biden's policies that clash with Catholic teachings. January 9, 2024—The Biden administration rescinded a 2019 Trump administration rule that provided conscience protections to doctors and health care providers [...]
REPORT SENT TO BISHOPS ON BIDEN’S POLICY DEPARTURES
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a Catholic League report: We have prepared a report, "President Biden's Policies: Departures from Catholic Teachings," that outlines many instances where his decision-making on important moral issues is [...]
Annual Reports
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW Bill Donohue Victory is sweet, even if it takes what seems like an eternity to secure. In January, we protested the most obscene anti-Catholic [...]
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2017 YEAR IN REVIEW
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2017 YEAR IN REVIEW Bill Donohue "The election of Donald Trump may signal a change for the better on religious liberty issues. We will know in due course." [...]
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2016 YEAR IN REVIEW
Bill Donohue Twenty years ago, I wrote that "the most invidious form of anti-Catholicism is that which emanates from elite circles." I also noted that "there is also a brand of anti-Catholicism that comes from [...]
PREFACE
By any index, we had a very good year in 2015. That is largely due to our employees, and to our members who make it happen. We are fortunate to have a very competent staff. [...]
Executive Summary
The Catholic event of the year—at least for Americans—was also the Catholic League event of the year, namely, the pope's historic visit to Washington, D.C., New York City, and Philadelphia. Pope Francis electrified the nation, [...]
Activist Organizations
January In 2013, Rebecca Randles, an attorney who works with supreme Catholic-suing lawyer Jeffrey Anderson, sued Bill Donohue and the Catholic League for allegedly libeling a man who had made accusations against a priest in [...]
The Arts
March Grants Pass, OR – Jim Ingraham's picture was selected as the Caveman Camera Club's image of the month for March. Given the theme of "contradiction,'' Ingraham shot a photograph he titled "Bad Nun." The [...]
Charlie Hebdo Controversy
A week into the new year saw the horrible death of 12 people, most of whom worked at the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo; a police officer was among the dead. The weekly publication is [...]
Education
February 9 Yulee, FL – A student at Yulee High School ended the school's morning announcement with "God Bless America." This caused the American Humanist Association to contact the school and the Nassau County School [...]
Government
February 3 Gresham, OR – The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries found Aaron and Melissa Klein, who run a bakery, guilty of discrimination for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple [...]
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