A PURELY statistical study of the life and growth of Protestantism in the United States during the last hundred years does not support a very widely held conviction that Protestantism is losing its ...

THERE are two sharply defined views as to the significance of what is called ‘modern religious thought.’ The first — that of the thinkers in question — is that it marks the beginning of an epoch, that ...

On certain thin-aired uplands where theologians graze, it is growing increasingly difficult to tell a Protestant from a Roman Catholic. To a degree that would have been unthinkable 50 years ago, they ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Every Catholic convert has their own unique story of the journey that led them to the Catholic Church. For Ulf and Birgitta Ekman, theirs played out in public in secular Sweden, where ...

Photo by Jon Sailer/Christoph Schmid on Unsplash (composite by America) Can Catholics be real Americans? This question has vexed many of us since 1776. There are many reasons to think we are not.

The Catholic Church in South Korea is the most trusted religious group on the peninsula, according to a recent survey. Among those surveyed, 21.4 percent of respondents revealed that they had more ...

So another norm of public decency falls, like a historical building demolished to make way for one of Donald Trump’s tasteless towers. When the president of the United States goes after an American ...

Today’s announcement of the resignations of two French bishops suffering from episcopal burnout, and the impending release of a potentially devastating report about sexual abuse allegations at ...

Catholicism, Protestantism, and indigenous culture shape the interpretation of these experiences and how people relate to those who have passed away. When Octavio Esqueda was one, his little sister ...