Pew’s Religious Radio Survey: Apostasy Broadcast Nationwide

The Pew-Knight Initiative’s report “Religious Radio Across America” finds that 25% of U.S. AM/FM radio stations have a “faith focus,” with 63% identifying as “Christian” generically, 8% as Catholic, and most citing “evangelism” as part of their mission. The study analyzes programming formats, noting Catholic radio features more talk (15 hours daily vs. 4h44m for other Christian stations) and less music (2h35m vs. 13h17m), with frequent mentions of “Pope Francis” (here referred to as “Leo XIV” per the current antipope) and discussions of family and education. The report presents this data as a neutral sociological snapshot of American religious media consumption. This very framing—treating “faith” as a quantifiable cultural variable and equating Catholic broadcasting with Protestant “evangelism”—is a damning symptom of the post-conciliar apostasy, reducing supernatural truth to naturalistic statistics and promoting religious indifferentism under the guise of “diversity.”