BIDEN HONORS SOROS
Bill Donohue On January 4, President Biden gave the Medal of Freedom to George Soros. It is the nation’s highest civilian award, given to “individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or [...]
THE UBIQUITY OF HATRED
Bill Donohue A decade ago, I ran into Alan Dershowitz in the green room at Fox News, awaiting a TV interview. We exchanged some small talk, and then he said something that has stayed with [...]
2024 YEAR IN REVIEW
The Catholic League's 2024 Year in Review is now available. It contains an overview of some of our most important battles and victories over the last year. To read it, click here.
TRUMP WOULD NOT HAVE WON WITHOUT HIM
Bill Donohue Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision in March of 2021 to launch Operation Lone Star—bussing migrants from Texas to cities across the nation—turned out to be one of the most consequential issues affecting the [...]
CHRISTMAS PRESENT—DISNEY IS WISING UP
Bill Donohue We’ll take a slow learner over one who never learns, which is why we are happy to report that Disney continues to move away from its offensive fare. Are they family-friendly again? Not [...]
THE POLITICS OF COMEDY
Bill Donohue This first appeared in the American Spectator on Oct. 22 They got to Jerry Seinfeld. He received enough blowback from the Left that he caved: he no longer blames humorless left-wing pundits and [...]
INSIDE THE MIND OF LEFT-WING HATERS
Michael P. McDonald Director of Communications Most Americans were shocked to learn that an innocent man, Brian Thompson, was murdered simply because he was an insurance man; he was the United Healthcare CEO. They were [...]
MENORAH PULLED FROM COOP LOBBY
Bill Donohue On December 12, we were contacted by a Catholic League member who sought to have a nativity scene displayed in the lobby of his cooperative building in Larchmont, New York, a town in [...]
OUR CHRISTMAS BILLBOARD DEBUTS TODAY
Bill Donohue Every year the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a group of Christian-hating atheists, likes to erect a silly Winter Solstice exhibit at the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. This year they are in for [...]
U.S. TRAILS U.K. ON PUBERTY BLOCKERS
Bill Donohue It’s time the medical profession in the U.S. caught up with the U.K., and most European nations, by pulling back its support for gender ideology. It’s madness and every sane person knows this [...]
A PABLUM CULTURE?
William A. Donohue This past summer, New York Times columnist Frank Rich accused the Catholic League of being "too thin-skinned." Though we were not the only example he provided, he began and finished his piece with us. [...]
ACCOUNTING FOR SUCCESS
William A. Donohue In the past five years, the Catholic League has grown faster than any other civil rights organization in the country. Inextricably tied to that achievement is our public visibility: it has grown [...]
THEY REALLY DO HATE US
William A. Donohue This past spring, while addressing the Orlando chapter of Legatus, I entered into a discussion with a man who questioned why there was so much Catholic bashing these days. I could have [...]
REDEFINING MORALITY
William A. Donohue A few years ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a brilliant article explaining how our society was "defining deviancy down." What he observed was the disturbing tendency to approve of behavior that previously [...]
THE LIMITS OF ECUMENISM
William A. Donohue After President Clinton took Communion at a South African Roman Catholic church, a well-known journalist, himself not a Catholic, defended the president by saying that what he did was an example of [...]
SHOULD CATHOLICISM BE RELEVANT?
William A. Donohue On a recent television show that I was on, one of the other guests remarked that Catholicism risked becoming obsolete because its message wasn’t relevant enough to today’s Catholics. I [...]
THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE AT 25 (1973-1998)
William A. Donohue On April 16, the Catholic League will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a dinner at The Plaza in New York City (see p. 7 for the details). There is much to celebrate, as [...]
NEO-ANTI-CATHOLICISM
There are many genres of anti-Catholicism, the most well-known of which are discriminatory practices against individual Catholics and bigoted assaults on the institutional Church. Both forms continue to exist, but the contemporary strain of Catholic [...]
WHEN DIALOGUE IS A DISASTER
William A. Donohue Dialogue has become more than a buzz word, it’s become a mantra. Just invoking the word makes some feel good, if not altogether righteous. Like a kid on dope, we expect that [...]
WHY SOME CATHOLICS LIKE “NOTHING SACRED”
William A. Donohue Catholics are not a monolithic entity and it is therefore not surprising that the Catholic reaction to "Nothing Sacred" has been anything but uniform. On the one hand, we have bishops, priests, [...]
Marjorie Taylor Greene Rips Catholic Church For Helping Migrants: ‘Satan’s Controlling the Church’
Bill in the news (Mediaite): Catholic League President Bill Donohue calls for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to apologize for slandering the Church. READ MORE HERE
Catholic League President Knocks Biden for Supporting ‘Transgender Mania’
Bill in the news (Newsmax): Catholic League President Bill Donohue provides "a frank assessment of transgenderism in America" under Biden. READ MORE HERE
Catholic League Slams Biden Administration’s ‘Transgender Mania’
Bill in the news (Breitbart): “There is no more rabid advocate of transgenderism in America than the President of the United States,” laments Catholic League president Bill Donohue Friday. READ MORE HERE
Top Planned Parenthood Official ‘Excited’ about Biden Administration Forcing Healthcare Professionals to Perform Abortions, Transgender Treatments Against Faith Values
Bill in the news (The Star News Network): Catholic League President Bill Donohue wrote that while Americans of faith still have “some two dozen federal rules on the books that provide protection for conscience rights,” Biden’s [...]
BISHOP DISINVITED FROM CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT OVER PRIDE, BLM FLAGS ROW
Bill in the news (Newsmax): Catholic League President Bill Donohue said the two flags were flying next to the American flag. Despite the fact that they had been up for more than a year, it [...]
DISNEY’S CHARM GREATLY TARNISHED OVER INCREASED POLITICAL ACTIVISM, CRITICS SAY
Bill in the news (National Catholic Register): “Walt Disney must be flipping over in his grave,” Donohue told the Register. “He founded Disney so that it would be a great entertainment mega-structure for children and [...]
Catholic League Decries Twitter’s ‘Fascistic’ Censorship of Free Speech
Bill in the news (Breitbart) Catholic League president Bill Donohue slams "Twitter for its censorship of politically incorrect speech that challenges woke ideology." READ MORE HERE
Munich report on sex abuse heightens Catholic Church divide over sexuality
Bill in the news (Religion News Service): Catholic League president Bill Donohue defends Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI from his critics. READ MORE HERE
Disney-Owned Studio to Release Cannibal Horror Movie ‘Fresh’ About Doctor Who Dismembers Women
Catholic League in the news (Breitbart): The Catholic League has long highlighted the fact that Walt Disney Co. is not as family-friendly as they claim, even calling for a boycott over the film "Priest" in [...]
Prior To March For Life, Pro-Choice Catholic Group Sends Message In Favor Of Abortion
Bill in the news (Tampa Free Press): Catholic League president Bill Donohue condemns the actions of Catholics for Choice. READ MORE HERE
Annual Reports
Media
Books | Internet | Magazines | Movies | Music | Newspapers |Radio & Television BOOKS March 30 Glorious Appearing by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins was published. It is the twelfth and final installment of the "Left Behind" series of evangelical Christian thrillers begun in 1995. The [...]
Miscellaneous
January 4 New York, NY—Red paint was smeared on two stone pillars near the sanctuary in St. Patrick's Cathedral. January 4 Canton, MA—A statue of the Infant Jesus was stolen from a nativity scene outside [...]
“The Passion of the Christ”
The following is a list of some of the more incendiary remarks made about the Mel Gibson movie, "The Passion of the Christ." We do not maintain that it is anti-Catholic to criticize a film, [...]
Executive Summary
In 2003, the Catholic League celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1973 by Jesuit scholar Father Virgil Blum, the league is dedicated to defending individual Catholics and the institutional Church against discrimination and defamation. That [...]
Activist Organizations
January On its webpage, the Feminist Majority lists under "Feminist News" news articles of interest to its members. For instance, at the end of January it drew attention to articles titled "Women Sue AT&T for [...]
The Arts
January Seattle, WA—An art exhibit at the Roq la Rue Gallery called "Gods and Monsters" featured a work called "Frankenkreist," which depicted Christ as Frankenstein's monster; and "Naughty Guadalupe," which depicted a topless Our Lady [...]
Business / Workplace
San Francisco, CA—Divine Interventions sells sex toys with a religious theme. On its website it offers sex toys that are in the shape of a crucifix, the Blessed Mother, baby Jesus, a nun, Judas, Moses [...]
Cartoons
This cartoon by Pat Oliphant (syndicated, 2/22/03) equates the charge of pedophilia against Michael Jackson with abuse by priests. Besides accusing all priests of being molesters, it continued the false perception that the abuse crisis [...]
Education
January Westfield, MA—Students at Westfield High School who were suspended in December 2002 for distributing candy canes with messages attached filed suit in federal court claiming school administrators violated their constitutional rights to free speech [...]
Government
January Hightstown, NJ—Town Councilman Eugene Sarafin, known for his atheism and inflammatory remarks about religion, twice used obscene terms to describe his Catholic critics. He labels them "Catholic s---." After a complaint by the Catholic [...]
Most Shared Posts
Catholic Connection
Bill in the News (Catholic Connection): Bill discusses New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his first days in office. To listen, click here.
NATIVITY SCENE TAMPERED WITH
Bill Donohue Last year before we erected our nativity scene in Central Park, I told the staff that this was the first time in 30 years that we have displayed [...]
CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2025 YEAR IN REVIEW
Michael P. McDonald, Director of Communications For the PDF version, click here. As the cultural pendulum swung back towards tradition, reason, and faith, the Catholic League made significant contributions to [...]
2025 YEAR IN REVIEW
The Catholic League’s 2025 Year in Review is now available. It contains an overview of some of our most important battles and victories over the last year. To read it, [...]
