Robert Royal

Who is Robert Royal?

Robert Royal is a Catholic author and the president of the "Faith and Reason Institute", based in Washington, D.C.

Royal received his BA and MA from Brown University and his PhD from The Catholic University of America. He has taught at Brown University, Rhode Island College, and The Catholic University of America. From 1980 to 1982 he was as editor-in-chief of Prospect magazine in Princeton, New Jersey. From 1986 to 1999 he served as vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, along with president George Weigel from 1989 to 1996.

He is currently editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing, an online publication he launched with Michael Novak. He also serves as the Graduate Dean of Catholic Distance University and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute.

Royal is generally conservative and a critic of secularism.