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8. “Harmonies of Liberty,” Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins, National Prayer Service, Jan. 21, 2009, nationalcathedral.org.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Julia Dunn, “Obama to Be Prayer Day No-Show,” Washington Times, May 6, 2009.
12. “Obama Ends Bush-Era National Prayer Day at the White House,” Top of the Ticket: Politics Coast to Coast with the L.A. Times, May 7, 2009, latimesblogs.latimes.com.
13. Terence P. Jeffrey, “Belief That Religion Is Losing Its Influence on American Life Hit 50-Year Peak After Inauguration of Obama, Says Gallup Data,” Conservative News Service, Dec. 29, 2010, cnsnews.com.
14. Summary of Key Findings, U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 2008.
15. Michelle Boorstein, “15 Percent of Americans Have No Religion,” Washington Post, March 9, 2009.
16. Ibid.
17. Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell, “Walking Away from Church,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 19, 2010.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.; Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, American Religious Identification Survey 2008, News, Office of Communications, Trinity College, Hartford, CT; Rachel Zoll, “More Americans Say They Have No Religion,” AP, March 9, 2009.
20. Kosmin and Keysar, American Religious Identification Survey 2008.
21. Jon Meacham, “The End of Christian America,” Newsweek, April 13, 2009.
22. Putnam and Campbell, “Walking Away from Church.”
23. U.S. Religious Landscape Survey; Timothy Samuel Shah, “Born Again in the U.S.A.: The Enduring Power of American Evangelicalism,” Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 2009, 143.
24. Boorstein, “15 Percent”; Zoll, “More Americans.”
25. Ibid.; Kosmin and Keysar, American Religious Identification Survey 2008.
26. Steven Waldman, “Fastest Growing Religion = No Religion (New Religious Identification Survey),” beliefnet.com, March 9, 2009.
27. “Catholics on the Move, Non-religious on the Rise,” Trinity News, March 9, 2009, trincoll.edu.
28. “Abortion a More Powerful Issue for Women,” Pew Research Center for People and the Press, April 23, 2004, people-press.org.
29. Kosmin and Keysar, American Religious Identification Survey 2008.
30. Michael Felsen, “Obama’s Faith in ‘Non-Believers,’” The Forward, Feb. 27, 2009.
31. “Faith on the Hill: The Religious Affiliations of Members of Congress,” Congressional Quarterly, Dec. 19, 2008.
32. Kosmin and Keysar, American Religious Identification Survey 2008.
33. U.S. Religious Landscape Survey.
34. Eric Kaufmann, “Breeding for God,” Prospect, November 2006, prospectmagazine.co.uk.
35. Kosmin and Keysar, American Religious Identification Survey 2008; “Catholics on the Move.”
36. “Remarks by the President on a New Beginning,” White House, Office of the Press Secretary, June 4, 2009, whitehouse.gov.
37. William Wan, “Abundant Faith, Shrinking Space,” Washington Post, Aug. 22, 2009.
38. Carl Bialik, “Estimates of Religious Populations Require a Bit of Faith,” Wall Street Journal, Aug. 14–15, 2010.
39. U.S. Religious Landscape Survey.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. Michael Spencer, “The Coming Evangelical Collapse,” Christian Science Monitor, March 10, 2009.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, “God Still Isn’t Dead,” Wall Street Journal, Apr. 7, 2009.
47. Ibid.
48. Russell D. Moore, “Where Have All the Presbyterians Gone?” Wall Street Journal, Feb. 4, 2011.
49. Spencer, “The Coming Evangelical Collapse.”
50. Shah, “Born Again in the U.S.A.,” 144–45.
51. “National Statistics on Belonging and Belief,” ARIS, 2008.
52. Harold Meyerson, “Episcopalians Against Equality,” Washington Post, Dec. 20, 2006.
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid.
55. Gillian Gaynair, “D.C. Board Rejects Gay Marriage Referendum Effort,” Chicago Tribune, June 15, 2009.
56. Scott Lamb, “The Decline and Fall of Christian America (Jon Meacham),” St. Louis Today, special to the Post-Dispatch, April 8, 2009, interact.stltoday.com.
57. Julia Duin, “Catholics, Southern Baptists Losing Members,” Washington Times, Feb. 25, 2009.
58. Ibid.
59. Ibid.
60. John Allen, “Religion in Europe: Christianity on the Defensive/Christianity Under Siege,” National Catholic Reporter, June 13, 2008.
61. Ibid.
62. William Murchison, “Mainline Marital Melange,” Chronicles, April 17, 2009, chroniclesmagazine.org.
63. Ibid.
64. Julia Duin, “Lutherans Second Church to Split Over Gays,” Washington Times, Nov. 19, 2009.
65. Laurie Goodstein, “First Openly Gay Episcopal Bishop to Retire in 2013,” New York Times, Nov. 7, 2010.
66. Edward Short, “Winston Churchill and the Old Cause,” Crisis, Dec. 2005, 27.
67. Eugene G. Windchy, The End of Darwinism: And How a Flawed and Disastrous Theory Was Stolen and Sold (Arlington, VA: Eugene Windchy, 2009), 168.
68. Ibid.
69. Ibid., 40.
70. Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970), 96.
71. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Los Angeles: Hurst & Blackett, 1939), 225.
72. Ibid.
73. Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies (Salem, NH: Ayer Company, 1985), 10.
74. Ibid.
75. Meacham, “End of Christian America.”
76. Sharon Jayson, “CDC Study: Birthrates Decline Overall,” USA Today, Dec. 22, 2010; Rob Stein and Donna St. George, “Number of Unwed Mothers Has Risen Sharply in U.S.,” Washington Post, May 14, 2009.
77. Heather Mac Donald, “Nation of Cowards,” City Journal, Feb. 19, 2008, city-journal.org; Brady Hamilton, Steven Malanga, “Bad Choices, Not a Bad Economy, Are to Blame,” Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 4, 2007, manhattan-institute.org; Walter Williams, “Victimhood: Rhetoric or Reality,” Jewish World Review, June 8, 2005.
78. South Dakota E-Labor Bulletin, Labor Information Center, South Dakota Department of Labor, Dec. 2007.
79. “Suicides in the U.S.: Statistics and Prevention,” National Institute of Mental Health, nimh.nih.gov.
80. William Bennett, The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 22.
81. “Public Safety, Public Spending: Forecasting America’s Prison Population 2007–2011,” Pew Charitable Trusts, Feb. 14, 2007.
82. Jeffrey Kuhner, “Hollywood’s Culture of Death,” Washington Times, Feb. 22, 2009.
83. Ibid.
84. Duncan Williams, Trousered Apes: Sick Literature in a Sick Society (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1991), 152; Philip Yancey, “T. S. Eliot’s Christian Society: Still Relevant Today?” Christian Century, Nov. 19, 1986, religion-online.org.
85. Tom Wolfe, “The Meaning of Freedom,” Parameters, March 1988, 14.
86. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harvard Address, June 8, 1978, columbia.edu/cu.
87. Angus MacDonald, “Our Christian Faith,” St. Croix Review, December 2010, p. 2; George Grant, “Election Day Meditations,” Grantian Florilegium, Aug. 3, 2006.
88. Piatak, “The Necessity of Christianity,” 41.
89. Ibid., 42.
90. Ibid.
91. Ibid.
92. Tom Piatak, “Decline and Fall,” Chronicles, August 2009, 30.
93. Ibid.
94. Ibid.
95. John Xiros Cooper, T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of the Four Quartets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 127.
96. Williams, Trousered Apes, 152; Edmund Burke, “Letter to a Member of the National Assembly,” 1791, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke (1899), vol. 4, 51–52, bartleby.com.
97. Dermot Quinn,
“Dawson’s Creed,” The American Conservative, Feb. 2010, 19.
98. “Giorgio Vasari—Founder of the History of Art,” Info Barrel, Apr. 6, 2009, infobarrel.com.
99. Francis Fukuyama, “A Philosophy in Context,” New York Times Book Review, May 9, 2010, 12.
100. Ibid.
101. Naomi Schaefer Riley, “The Fate of the Spirit: The Wobbly Religious Lives of Young People Emerging into Adulthood,” Wall Street Journal, Oct. 2, 2009.
102. Ibid.
103. Ibid.
104. Russell Kirk, “Civilization Without Religion?” American Orthodox Institute, Sept. 12, 2009, aoiusa.org.
105. Christopher Dawson, Progress and Religion: An Historical Enquiry (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1934), 232–33.
106. U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, 128, 136.
107. Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach,” 1867, eecs.harvard.edu.
108. Jude Dougherty, “National Identity,” Nationale und kulturelle Identität im Zeitalter der Globalisierung, ed. Anton Rauscher, vol. 18 of the series Soziale Orientierung (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2006), 13.
109. James K. Robinson and Walter K. Rideout, A College Book of Modern Verse (Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson, 1960), 65.
110. Hilaire Belloc, Europe and the Faith (New York: CosmoClassics, 2007), 184.
111. Belloc, The Great Heresies, 132.
112. Archbishop Charles Chaput, “Living Within the Truth,” Catalyst, Jan.–Feb. 2011, 8.
113. Denis Diderot quotes, thinkexist.com.
114. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (New York: Washington Square Press, 1961), 236.
115. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “Men Have Forgotten God,” Templeton Address, 1983, Orthodox America, roca.org/OA.
116. Ibid.
117. Ibid.
118. Ibid.
119. Ibid.
120. Ibid.
121. Shah, “Born Again in the U.S.A.,” 139.
122. Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “Continental Drifts,” The National Interest, March/April 2009, 39.
123. Ibid., 46.
124. Stephen Adams, “Pope’s Good Friday Message Warns of a Drift into a ‘Desert of Godlessness,’” Telegraph, April 10, 2009.
125. Chris Caldwell, “Born Again Anti-Catholicism,” Financial Times, Sept. 17, 2010.
126. Ibid.
127. Mark Tidd, “Idolatry and the Battle for the Heart,” Reformed Worship, Dec. 1995, reformedworship.org.
128. Meacham, “The End of Christian America.”
129. Stephen Beale, “T. S. Eliot and the Idea of a Christian Society,” May 4, 2009, thebrownspectator.
130. Wayne Allensworth, “Who Won the Cold War?” Chronicles, July 2010, 24.
131. Ibid., 25.
132. Psalm 96: 5, The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version (Rockford, IL: Tan Books and Publishers, 1999), 621.
133. Quinn, “Dawson’s Creed,” 20.
134. David Priestland, The Red Flag: A History of Communism (New York: Grove Press, 2010), cited by Allensworth, “Who Won the Cold War?” 25.
135. Robert Nisbet, Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982), 101.
136. Belloc, The Great Heresies, 132.
137. Ron Dreher, “Bill Maher and the Gods That Failed,” CrunchyCon: Conservative Politics and Religion with Ron Dreher, Episcopalian, Feb. 23, 2009, episcopalian.worldpress.com.
138. Ibid.
139. Ibid.
140. Ibid.
141. Belloc, The Great Heresies, 127.
142. Ibid., 132–33.
143. Ibid., 93.
144. Fouad Ajami, “From Berlin to Baghdad,” Wall Street Journal, Nov. 9, 2009.
145. “1.5 Billion Muslims in World,” Gulf Daily News, Oct. 9, 2009.
146. Adrian Michaels, “A Fifth of European Union Will Be Muslim by 2050,” Telegraph, Aug. 8, 2009.
147. “An Analysis of the World Muslim Population by Country/Region,” CIA World Factbook, 2009, factbook.net.
148. Belloc, The Great Heresies, 128.
149. Kuhner, “Hollywood’s Culture of Death.”
150. Williams, Trousered Apes, 9.
151. “Afghan Christian Convert Flees to Italy,” AP, March 29, 2006, foxnews.com.
152. Patrick Goodenough, “Swiss Vote to Ban Minarets Viewed by Some as Human Rights Violation, by Others as Catalyst for Muslim Assimilation,” cnsnews.com, Nov. 30, 2009.
153. James Joyner, “French Burqa Ban Widely Supported in Europe,” Atlantic Council, March 1, 2010, acus.org.
154. “Sharia Law for UK Is ‘Unavoidable,’” BBC News, Feb. 7, 2008.
155. Ibid.
156. Ibid.
157. Paul Belien, “Islamic Immigration and Murder Among the Tulips,” vdare.com, Nov. 3, 2004.
158. Ibid.
159. “John Paul II in His Own Words,” BBC News, Oct. 14, 2003, news.bbc.co.uk.
160. State of the World Report, 2005–2006, Human Life International.
161. Dale Hurd, “Europe Forsakes Christianity for Islam,” CBN News, Sept. 5, 2006, propheticnews.net.
162. Allen, “Religion in Europe.”
163. Hurd, “Europe Forsakes Christianity for Islam.”
164. Fr. John McCloskey, “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order,” L’Osservatore Romano, English edition, July 27, 1997, CatholiCity.com.
165. Ibid.
166. Ibid.
3. The Crisis of Catholicism
1. Kenneth C. Jones, Index of Leading Catholic Indicators: The Church Since Vatican II (St. Louis: Oriens Publishing, 2003), 7.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., 7–11.
4. Laurie Goodstein, “U.S. Nuns Facing Vatican Scrutiny,” New York Times, July 2, 2009.
5. Dale McDonald and Margaret M. Schultz, “United States Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools 2009–2010,” National Catholic Education Association.
6. Fr. Joseph A. Sirba, “U.S. Catholics Leaving the Church in Droves: What Can Be Done?” AD2000, May 2009, 8, ad2000.com.au.
7. Ibid.; “FACTBOX: America’s Roman Catholic Population,” Reuters.com, April 10, 2008.
8. Fr. Joseph A. Sirba, “The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey,” Homiletic & Pastoral Review, January 2009, 21.
9. Ibid.
10. “A Portrait of American Catholics on the Eve of Pope Benedict’s Visit,” Pew Research Center Publications, March 27, 2008, pewresearch.org.
11. “Gomez Vows to Be an Advocate for L.A.’s Immigrants, the Less Fortunate,” Los Angeles Times, April 6, 2010, latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/jose-gomez.
12. “The Ethnic Church,” Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion, Pew Hispanic Center and Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, April 25, 2007, 50.
13. Jones, Index of Leading Catholic Indicators, 71.
14. Ibid., 9; Nancy Frazier O’Brien, “Survey Assesses Catholic Beliefs on Mass, Sacraments,” Catholic News Service, April 11, 2008, catholicnews.com.
15. Jones, Index of Leading Catholic Indicators, 10.
16. Ibid.
17. O’Brien, “Survey Assesses Catholic Beliefs”; “Catholics Approve of Pope Benedict, but Don’t Attend Mass,” Catholic News Agency, April 17, 2008, catholicnewsagency.com; “Sacraments Today: Belief and Practice Among U.S. Catholics,” Feb. 2008, cara.georgetown.edu.
18. O’Brien, “Survey Assesses Catholic Beliefs.”
19. Jones, Index of Leading Catholic Indicators, 10; Peter Steinfels, “Future of Faith Worries Catholic Leaders,” New York Times, June 1, 1994.
20. Malachi Martin, The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 321; Russell, Breach of Faith, 45.
21. F. N. Robinson, ed., The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957), 22.
22. Matthew 18:6, King James Bible.
23. “Archbishop Chaput Hits Catholics’ Complacency,” Wanderer, April 2, 2009, 7; “Catholic ‘Complacency’ Shares Blame for Country’s,
” catholicnewsagency.com.
24. “Faith on the Hill: The Religious Affiliations of Members of Congress,” Dec. 19, 2008, pewforum.org.
25. Lance Morrow, “The Rise and Fall of Anti-Catholicism,” Time, Oct. 15, 1979.
26. Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, “Foul Ball: Anti-Catholicism Is the Nation’s Other Pastime,” foxnews.com, Oct. 30, 2009.
27. “The Arts,” Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, 2007, catholic-league.ws.
28. Ibid.; Amy S. Clark, “Holy Week Angst over Naked Chocolate Jesus,” AP, cbsnews.com, March 29, 2007.
29. Bill Donahue, “Virgin Mary Defiled on ‘South Park,’” Free Republic, Dec. 8, 2005.
30. “Larry David Blasted for ‘Curb’ Episode Where He Urinates on Jesus Painting,” foxnews.com, Oct. 28, 2009.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. “Colorado Museum Under Fire; Vile Jesus Art Smashed,” Catalyst, November 2010, 1.
34. David Itzkoff, “‘South Park’ Episode Altered After Muslim Group’s Warning,” New York Times, April 23, 2010.
35. Morrow, “Rise and Fall of Anti-Catholicism.”
36. Tamara Barak Aparton, “Church Defaced by ‘Hate Crime,’” San Francisco Examiner, Jan. 5, 2009.
37. Ben Child, “Emmerich Reveals Fear of Fatwa Axed 2012 Scene,” Guardian, Nov. 3, 2009.
38. Penny Starr, “Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Features Ant-Covered Jesus, Naked Brothers Kissing, Genitalia, and Ellen DeGeneres Grabbing Her Breasts,” cnsnews.com, Nov. 29, 2010.
39. Ibid.
40. Dolan, “Foul Ball.”
41. Kathleen Gilbert, “Notre Dame Faces Groundswell of Outrage After Announcing Plan to Honor Obama,” lifesitenews.com, March 23, 2009; Ralph McInerny, “Is Obama Worth a Mass?” assentingcatholic.blogspot.com, March 24, 2009.
42. Ibid.
43. Gilbert, “Notre Dame.”
44. “Bishop to Skip Notre Dame Graduation over Obama’s Views,” cnnpolitics.com, May 14, 2009.
45. “Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI,” Catholic University of America, April 17, 2008.
46. Chaz Muth, “Despite Criticism, Notre Dame Firm on Obama as Commencement Speaker,” Catholic News Service, March 24, 2009.
47. Julia Duin, “Notre Dame Feels Heat Again: Funding of Gay March Attendees Is at Issue,” Washington Times, Oct. 16, 2009.
48. “Jesuit Universities Criticized for ‘Obscene’ Events Promoting Sexual Ideologies,” Catholic News Agency, March 2, 2009.
49. Ibid.