Bill Donohue
American Roman Catholic sociologist (born 1947)
William Anthony Donohue (born July 18, 1947) is an American Catholic layman who has been president of the Catholic League in the United States since 1993.
Life and career
Donohue was born in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. He began his teaching career in the 1970s working at St. Lucy's School in Spanish Harlem. In 1977, he took a teaching position at La Roche College in McCandless, Pennsylvania. In 1980, he received his doctorate in sociology from New York University. Donohue is divorced and has two adult children from his marriage.
His first book was The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union. He became associated with the conservative Heritage Foundation, where he is an adjunct scholar.
While Donohue was in college in New York, Virgil C. Blum, a Jesuit at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded the Catholic League to counter anti-Catholicism in American culture.
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