Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on how Covid-19 is affecting mental health: Andrew Copson is the chief executive of Humanists UK. On August 27, he published a piece on the United Kingdom website, Politics, noting that coronavirus presents Brits with a novel challenge. "For the majority of Brits—more than 52% of whom identify as non-religious—this [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on attempts to salvage Margaret Sanger's racist history: Aside from pro-abortion activists, everyone who has taken a serious look at the writings and speeches of Margaret Sanger admits that she was a racist. Indeed, she was as big a racist as any Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan ever [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on new problems for the Democrats: Every survey in the last few decades shows that agnostics, atheists, and those with no religious affiliation have set anchor in the Democratic Party. By contrast, religious Americans are overwhelmingly Republican. The events at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) only made matters worse; a [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the Democratic Party Platform: Pro-life Democrats tried to persuade Joe Biden and the leadership of the Democratic Party to soften their language on abortion rights. But the 2020 Democratic Party Platform that passed on August 19 shows they lost. Indeed, they lost on every recommendation they made. On May [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the Catholic Left's pro-abortion position: Anyone who follows the Catholic Left knows that it rejects the Church's teachings on abortion, contraception, marriage, ordination and other issues. Some are quite open about it; others less so. The National Catholic Reporter is mostly in the former camp. In the past few [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Joe Biden's criticism of Linda Sarsour: Linda Sarsour is one of the most notorious anti-Semites in the nation. A former leader of the Women's March, she was forced to step down from its board because of her hate speech. Sarsour not only supports Sharia law, she is a strong [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the anniversary of the suffrage amendment: It was 100 years ago today that the 19th Amendment was passed, giving women the right to vote. The New York Times was not happy about it. Adolph Ochs created "the family"—a long line of Ochses and Sulzbergers who owned the newspaper—and he [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on allegations that Kamala Harris covered up allegations of sexual abuse by priests: Last week, conservative author Peter Schweizer alleged that when Kamala Harris was the San Francisco District Attorney she failed to pursue allegations of sexual abuse by priests in the San Francisco Archdiocese. He says she did so [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on another column on Saint Junípero Serra in the New York Times: On August 6, I wrote a news release about a column by Elizabeth Bruenig in the New York Times on the work of Father (now Saint) Junípero Serra, the 18th century Spanish priest who championed the human rights [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the recent spat over President Trump's criticism of Joe Biden's religious beliefs: On August 6, President Trump accused Joe Biden of being "against God." When I read this on August 7, I released the following tweet: "Trump has no business smearing Biden's personal faith. What he said is indefensible. [...]
