POPE OPINES ON HARRIS AND TRUMP
Bill Donohue Pope Francis recently ripped into Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, saying American voters were stuck with choosing “the lesser evil.” He condemned Harris’ support for abortion rights as being an “assassination,” and he [...]
MEDIA DISTORT TRUMP ON ABORTION
Bill Donohue On September 11, we detailed how Kamala Harris and the media were wrong, and former president Donald Trump was right, in assessing the exchange on abortion during the presidential debate. Their “fact-checking” is [...]
TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT ABORTION
Bill Donohue Vice President Kamala Harris and ABC moderators made comments about abortion during the presidential debate that were factually incorrect. Former President Donald Trump was correct. Worse, the media, by and large, are siding [...]
SCHOOL CHOICE MARCHES ON
Bill Donohue Those who scream the loudest about helping minorities are almost always the same ones who are doing everything they can to keep them in their place. Proof: It is mostly Democrats who champion [...]
TIM WALZ’S IDEA OF EDUCATION
Bill Donohue Minnesota Gov. and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has some very bizarre, even repugnant, ideas about education. He has been reluctant to talk about them, and the media have shown no interest in [...]
WRONG SMOKING PRIORITIES FOR TEENS
Bill Donohue “I want to be unequivocally clear that this continued decline in e-cigarette use among our nation’s youth is a monumental public health win,” said Brian King, the director of the Food and Drug [...]
NASHVILLE MANIFESTO PROVES REVEALING
Bill Donohue On March 27, 2023, Audrey Elizabeth Hale, murdered three adults and three 9-year-old children at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. A transgender person, who mistakenly thought she was a boy, Hale had been [...]
THE MYTH OF CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST VIOLENCE
Part II Bill Donohue Part I of this installment exposing the myth of Christian nationalist violence focused on six purported incidents of this phenomenon as described by Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint [...]
THE MYTH OF CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST VIOLENCE
Part I Bill Donohue As a sociologist and a Catholic advocate, I am quite interested in the left-wing accusation that Christian nationalists are a violent-ridden threat to America. Those who make this charge are mostly [...]
SURGEON GENERAL FRETS OVER PARENTING
Bill Donohue U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy’s recent piece on parenting that was posted in the New York Times has received considerable media coverage. Politico titled its article on his op-ed, “Parents Can’t Function, [...]
THE SELF-IDENTITY SCAM
William A. Donohue To prove his own existence, Descartes famously said, "I think, therefore I am." To prove their own identity, we now have people saying, "I identify as X, therefore I am X." In [...]
OUR ELITES HAVE FAILED US
William A. Donohue Where does all the hatred come from? Beginning in the spring, we have seen violent thugs take to the streets from Lancaster to Los Angeles. They have killed cops, murdered innocent bystanders, [...]
THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER
William A. Donohue Over the summer, Raymond Arroyo interviewed me a couple of times on his EWTN show, "The World Over." On one occasion he asked me what I thought about Black Lives Matter. "There [...]
THE BANE OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS
William A. Donohue "Confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others." That dictionary definition of self-righteousness aptly describes the way so many people have behaved [...]
THE CRACKUP OF THE CHATTERING CLASS
William A. Donohue For almost four decades, I have given countless interviews to reporters and have appeared on thousands of television and radio shows. Most of the people I have met have been wonderful; others [...]
THE POWER OF PRAYER
William A. Donohue The coronavirus pandemic led to thousands of deaths, overrun mortuaries, untold suffering, burnt-out hospital staff, economic hardship, and psychological distress. It also gave millions a time to renew their faith, or come [...]
ABORTION’S SATANIC TOUCH
Animals have no rights—they cannot be held morally responsible for their behavior—but they certainly deserve our respect. Indeed, those who abuse them should be punished: animal cruelty should never be tolerated. It should be axiomatic [...]
THE REAL WHITE-BLACK DIVIDE
What separates whites and blacks the most these days is not race or class, it's religion. But don't expect to hear this from commentators or scholars. That's because most of them are well-educated white people, [...]
MEDIA MAKE UP DIRT THEY CANNOT FIND
A recent NBC poll of Catholics who work for the Church found that 64 percent do not believe the media have been fair in their coverage of the clergy sexual abuse scandal. If you want [...]
GEORGETOWN’S PITIFUL CONFERENCE ON ABUSE
William A. Donohue In November, a report was released based on the proceedings of a Georgetown University event that took place in June. Titled, "National Convening on Lay Leadership for a Wounded Church and Divided [...]
FrontPage Magazine
Bill in the News (The Right Take): Bill discusses Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, on “The Right Take with Mark Tapson.” To listen click here.
The Todd Starnes Show
Bill in the News (The Todd Starnes Show): Bill discusses Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, with Todd Starnes. To listen click here. (Bill begins at the 1:42:50 mark)
“The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”
Bill Donohue discusses the decline of Western culture and his new book Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis. To watch, click here.
Catholic Connection
Bill in the News (Catholic Connection): Bill discusses Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, with Teresa Tomeo. To listen click here.
Faith and Freedom with Shemane
Bill in the News (Faith and Freedom with Shemane): Bill discusses Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, on "Faith and Freedom with Shemane." To listen click here.
Jesuit Father James Martin: Church Would Be ‘Immeasurably Poorer’ Without Gay Priests
Bill in the News (Breitbart): When the news broke, the Vatican was swift to offer an apology, insisting that the pope “never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms,” while notably not denying [...]
Catholic Connection
Bill in the News (Catholic Connection): Bill discusses the recent attack on Catholic NFL football player, Harrison Butker, with Teresa Tomeo. To listen, click here. (Bill begins at 16:15 minute mark)
Epoch Times
Bill in the News (Epoch Times): To watch Bill Donohue's 5/19/24 appearance on Epoch Times TV, click here.
CATHOLIC LEAGUE: WAR ON HARRISON BUTKER ‘DRIVEN BY ANTI-CATHOLICISM’
Bill in the News (Breitbart): Donohue points out that the notoriously bigoted Associated Press (AP), for instance, unleashed a string of red flags about Benedictine College being “part of a constellation of conservative Catholic colleges [...]
Pro America Report
In the News: (Pro America Report): Bill Donohue discusses his upcoming book, Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, with Ed Martin on "Pro America Report." To listen click, here.
Special Reports
The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse
To read Bill Donohue's analysis of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church that appeared in an international social science journal, click here.
NYS CHILD VICTIMS ACT IS FLAWED
Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains the flaws in the Child Victims Act, a measure included in this year's budget by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. It is being widely distributed to lawmakers, bishops, and [...]
PRESS CONFERENCE ON “JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA”
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an anti-Christian play that previews on January 23: On January 23, "Jerry Springer: The Opera," a New Group production, will preview at the Pershing Square Signature Center, an [...]
SEXUAL DEVIANTS AND ENABLERS – PARTS I & II
PART I MEN ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WHO HAVE A RECORD OF ANTI-CATHOLIC OFFENSES ENTERTAINMENT: Ben Affleck—After speaking out against Weinstein, the Oscar winner became the subject of his own sex assault narrative [...]
THE WAR AGAINST CARDINAL PELL
Bill Donohue, Ph.D. President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights July 20, 2017 Meet the Accusers Cardinal George Pell's appearance before a Melbourne court on July 26 will be watched carefully all over the [...]
SNAP IMPLODES
Bill Donohue The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) has been sued before, and while it has been hurt by those filings, the latest one suggests the end is near. It can't come [...]
BBC, CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND SEXUAL ABUSE
Bill Donohue has written an in-depth analysis of sexual abuse at the BBC, and the BBC’s coverage of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. He explains the similarities and dissimilarities, focusing on why the scandals [...]
When the Pope Tried to Kill Hitler
Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling Basic Books, New York, 2015 375 pages, $29.99. Ronald J. Rychlak Pope Pius XII and the Nazis: far too many writers have wandered [...]
SHINING THE LIGHT ON “SPOTLIGHT”
Bill Donohue The movie "Spotlight" is bound to spark more conversation about the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, much of what the American public knows about this issue is derived from the [...]
POPE FRANCIS QUOTES ON KEY ISSUES
Abortion "It is God who gives life. Let us respect and love human life, especially vulnerable life in a mother's womb." "A pregnant woman isn't carrying a toothbrush in her belly, or a tumor…We are [...]
Annual Reports
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
It is a sign of great progress that the Catholic League spends relatively little time defending Catholics from defamation or discrimination. It is not a good sign that we are busier than ever combating anti-Catholicism [...]
ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS
January 14 Searcy, AR – Police Chief Jeremy Clark refused to remove a small white cross that sits outside his private entrance to the police station, despite being pressured to do so by the Freedom [...]
THE ARTS
May 15 New York, NY – Sotheby's auctioned the Andres Serrano masterpiece "Piss Christ." The taxpayers were forced to fund this "art" in 1987 to the tune of $15,000; it was supported by the National [...]
BUSINESS/WORKPLACE
April 20 Seattle, WA – A local restaurant, Lunch Laboratory, created an advertising campaign that showed Jesus smoking marijuana and eating a cheeseburger. The advertisement read, "Buy One Burger of the Gods & Get the [...]
EDUCATION
March 10 Oviedo, FL – A 5-year-old kindergarten student was told that she was not allowed to pray during lunch at Carillon Elementary School. According to the girl's account, a lunch teacher approached her as [...]
GOVERNMENT
January 16 – September 26 The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child released a report on how the Vatican has responded to the sexual abuse of minors by priests. The 15-page report [...]
MEDIA
February The Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song was revoked from the film "Alone Yet Not Alone." The film and the song of the same title had a strong evangelical Christian theme, and the [...]
WAR ON THE BISHOPS
The following is an excerpt of a Special Report by Bill Donohue, originally published in the September edition of Catalyst. The Catholic Church has many enemies these days, some of whom are ex-Catholics who left [...]
WAR ON CHRISTMAS
The annual "War on Christmas" continued in 2014 with both sides having achieved roughly the same number of wins and losses. This is certainly an improvement over the days when the anti-Christmas side appeared to [...]
MISCELLANEOUS
January 23 Vineland, NJ – Religious statues at two parishes, located two miles apart, were vandalized in the middle of the night. At Sacred Heart Church, the outstretched arms of baby Jesus were broken off, [...]
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THE PROBLEM WITH ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr.
Bill Donohue Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been chosen by president-elect Donald Trump to be Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). From a Catholic perspective, there are serious problems [...]
FORD FOUNDATION FUNDING BEDLAM IN NYC
Bill Donohue The Ford Foundation, located in New York City, is funding left-wing groups that are protesting attempts to clean up a non-white neighborhood in Queens that has been overrun [...]
CHRISTIAN BASHERS RIP HEGSETH AND HUCKABEE
Bill Donohue They’ve started already. One week after the election and the Christian bashers are foaming at the mouth over president-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary [...]
BAR FOR SCREENING NOMINEES DIPS LOWER
Bill Donohue Now that Donald Trump is announcing his choices for various posts, some of the nominees are bound to have their personal lives held under a microscope. Assuming something [...]
