Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the upcoming Supreme Court case that will decide whether the Mississippi abortion law is constitutional: On December 1, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the most important abortion case ever brought since Roe v. Wade; indeed, it could overturn Roe. The case involves a Mississippi law [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest attacks on Thanksgiving: The Left hates America, so naturally it hates anything that has to do with our Judeo-Christian heritage, and that ineluctably means Thanksgiving. The latest attack is courtesy of Yahoo.com, which is increasingly home to left-wing news stories and opinion pieces. In a recent column [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a Biden administration report on gender equity: This fall the Biden administration released a remarkable document, "National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality." Like most government reports it was read by very few, though its effects will be far-reaching. Touted as a groundbreaking report on the subject, its real [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest attacks on religious liberty: Never has religious liberty been more seriously threatened than it is today. That the man responsible for this all-out assault professes to be a Catholic is all the more offensive. It is his Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and Department of Health and [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the raging free speech controversies: On November 9th, the New York Times ran two news stories on the same subject, free speech, that had very different perspectives. The articles did not appear in tandem: one appeared in Section A on p. 16; the other was a front-page story in [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the attacks on Archbishop Gomez: Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez is under attack by left-wing Catholics and outside activists for his stellar speech given in Spain on November 4th. They are particularly angered over his comments on contemporary social justice movements, which he properly labeled as "pseudo-religions." John McWhorter [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Sen. Dick Durbin's beef with his diocese: Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who identifies as a Catholic, has yet to find an abortion he couldn't justify. That is why his bishop, Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, recently said he will be denied Holy Communion in his diocese. This is nothing [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest report on clergy sexual abuse: The 2020 Annual Report on clergy sexual abuse has just been released. It is published by the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Youth Protection of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The data were collected by StoneBridge [...]
ABOUT THE BOOK This work unpacks the history and root causes of the clergy sex abuse scandals in the United States. Building on decades of data and research, author Bill Donohue, who holds a doctorate in sociology, tells the story from a fresh angle and calls us to rethink our assumptions about the Church’s handling of [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a Nebraska report on clergy sexual abuse: Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson recently released a "Report on Clergy Sexual Abuse" that bears scrutiny. There are many aspects to it that are seriously tainted. In the Executive Summary of the report, it says that in August 2018 Peterson's Department of [...]
