The divide between Americans who are religious and who are secular (religiously unaffiliated) is dramatic: it is evident in all aspects of the culture. That is one conclusion that can easily be drawn by the data provided by the Pew Research Center's 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study. This is the third such national study, the earlier ones [...]
Bill Donohue Paul Kengor, American Pontiff: Pope Leo XIV and His Plan to Heal the Church (Humanix Books) Most people, including Catholics, know little about Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago, the Augustinian who became Pope Leo XIV. Thanks to Paul Kengor, Grove City College professor, author and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator, we now know a [...]
The short answer to this question is because Massachusetts is so liberal. To be a liberal used to mean being tolerant, especially of free speech. No more. Today it means being an authoritarian. This has been confirmed by many surveys, including ones sponsored by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). In other words, many—not [...]
Europe, once the cradle of Christendom, has devolved into a pale imitation of itself. The last vestiges of this civilization today endure a prolonged assault that seeks to destroy it once and for all. As we have previously noted, France, the "eldest daughter of the Church," has undergone a massive demographic shift in the last half [...]
Kyle Nazareth Robert P. George, Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment (Encounter Books) St. Thomas Aquinas sums up the moral life in five words: do good and avoid evil. Rather obvious, right? However, what once felt like common sense isn't anymore. Moral discourse now sounds like a room of people [...]
Charlie Kirk was assassinated because he was an outspoken Christian. This is undeniable. Yet the media continue to bury this fact. Of course he was a conservative Christian—those are the only Christians targeted by Christian haters. The suspected killer, Tyler Robinson, was also a sexually confused young man. It takes a very disturbed man to be [...]
On September 8, President Trump addressed the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty, underscoring his commitment to combating anti-Christian bigotry. The task force he authorized to study this subject issued its initial report on anti-Christian bigotry on the same day (though it was dated June 6.) It covered many of the issues that the Catholic League has [...]
William A. Donohue President Trump's criticism of the 1989 Supreme Court decision, Texas v. Johnson, that legalized burning the American flag, is deserving of great respect, notwithstanding some problems with it. Trump was right to say, "The people in this country don't want to see our American flag burned and spit on." This alone is not [...]
Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, has died. He was a committed evangelical, a brilliant psychologist and an influential conservative activist. He also helped build good relations between Protestants and Catholics. In 2005, Bill Donohue was honored when he shared a stage with many Protestant leaders at a "Justice Sunday" event in Louisville, [...]
Every year the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) releases its annual survey results assessing free speech on college and university campuses. The "2026 College Free Speech Rankings" was recently published, and the results are not sanguine. Indeed, they are disturbing. The survey included 68,510 student respondents from 257 colleges and universities. The average overall [...]
