Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 6, 2025 /
13:45 pm
A nationwide grassroots movement aspires to bring Americans together through shared beliefs in both God and country, a prominent political philosopher said this week.
“Faith in God, fidelity to spouses and families, patriotism, and love for country and community have always been the glue that held Americans together,” said Professor Robert George in an interview on “EWTN Pro-Life Weekly.”
George, a legal and political scholar at Princeton University, appeared on the show to discuss the founding of the social movement and grassroots initiative Fidelity Month, aimed at bringing the country together after years of divide.
Fidelity Month “is a positive, grassroots movement to heal division and restore unity in our nation. It celebrates June as a season of recommitment to God, our spouses and families, our communities, and country,” the Fidelity Month website states.
The movement’s website features upcoming events, webinars, and guides on how people can contribute to the monthlong observance. Participants are urged to pray, promote Fidelity Month in their neighborhoods and on social media, and organize events of their own.
The inspiration, George explained to “EWTN Pro-Life Weekly” anchor Abigail Galván, came after he read a 2023 Wall Street Journal article citing survey data that showed significant declines in Americans’ belief in the importance of religion, family, and patriotism.
“The one area in which the faith of Americans increased,” George noted, “was in the importance of money. But material things are secondary to what really matters: God, marriage and children, and our communities.”
George said he helped found Fidelity Month to encourage a recommitment to the values that have historically united the country.
“If we’re going to have unity and strength as a people,” he said, “it has to come from some common commitments.”
The scholar emphasized the importance of both civic and spiritual foundations: “First, we have our commitments as Americans to the Constitution, our system of government, and our republican civic order. But by itself, that’s too thin.”
“Americans have always relied on more than that. Across races, ethnicities, and religions, there’s been a shared belief in the importance of God. Our national motto is ‘In God we trust,’ and we say ‘One nation under God’ in our Pledge of Allegiance.”
“Over the years, I’ve witnessed increasing secularization and an inversion of values,” he said. “People are prioritizing wealth, power, influence, prestige, and status instead of faith, family, honor, integrity, beauty, and knowledge — things that are ends in themselves, not just means to other ends.”
Fidelity Month, George hopes, will serve as a rallying point for Americans to reclaim the enduring values that have long been the bedrock of national unity.
“Part of the Fidelity Month effort is to restore the integrity of our society by restoring faith, by restoring the institution of the family, by reviving our understanding of what really matters, more than money, more than power, more than influence,” he said.
Paris Apodaca is a summer news intern for Catholic News Agency. She previously worked at the College Fix and has been published in a variety of outlets including the Washington Examiner, the Wall Street Journal’s Future View, and Campus Reform. In her spare time, she writes on Substack and reads political theory.
