Robert Royal, founder of the Faith & Reason Institute and editor-in-chief of the Catholic Thing, spoke to Aquinas College on "The Threats of Secularism" on Wednesday, October 22, 2014. The lecture was jointly sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences and the Center for Faith and Culture.

The Threats of Secularism

Catholics in America and other parts of the world, live in secular states that claim to be pluralistic and to respect religious beliefs. But there is no little confusion — and a growing threat to believers — in our society because some people, including many political authorities, have come to think that our public square should be shaped by secularism — a non-religious system of beliefs — not by the properly secular, which is neutral between religious and non religious views. Robert Royal will offer a diagnosis of the secularist ideology as well as some recommendations for how Catholics and other believers can assume their proper place in our society again.