From Thursday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On Pope Benedict XVI’s warning about secularization during his visit to England:

Well, he’s right. The decline of religion in Europe is one of the most striking phenomena of the last 50 years. And I think one of the reasons that you see all the visits and the gestures, the ecumenical spirit between the Catholic Church and the Anglican, as an example, is that there is a sense that the age-old rivalries, which were actually wars in the past between the denominations, is really obsolete in the face of the real threat to all of Christianity in Europe, which is the growing secular trend.
The churches in Spain, in Portugal, in Italy are empty. The Anglican churches in England are less attended in any given week than the mosques in England. … [The visit] is an attempt, is a way to say, look, our struggles among ourselves are really over and almost irrelevant. The real issue is the growth of science, the growth of some sort of enlightenment atheism.

On the secularization of America:

But I’m not sure that our politicians or presidents have an effect on religiosity. I think what is really striking is how religious America is — [compared] with how irreligious Europe has become. … Church attendance here is infinitely higher. I think belief in God is nine out of ten, which is much lower in Europe.
And secondly, I’m not sure it’s the rigidities of the church that are leading people away. On the contrary, I think it’s the more liberal denominations who offer nothing essentially [and therefore] who have the empty pews. And it’s the more evangelical in the United States … and Catholicism as well which have structure, which have withstood the secular trend the best.