More Americans describe the Bible as true, life-changing and helpful today, compared to a 2016 Lifeway Research study. Additionally, more than two in five Americans (44%) say the Bible is a book to ...

The global media storm surrounding the election of Pope Leo XIV will soon fade to some degree (until he wears a Chicago White Sox jersey or something like that). This post centers on the fact that the ...

To what degree will the new pope stand or not stand in continuity with Francis? As a scholar who has studied the writings and actions of the popes since the time of the Second Vatican Council, a ...

The Conversation U.S. asked Maureen Day , a researcher at the University of Southern California who has written several books about the contemporary church, to explain what Catholicism looks like in ...

Whether or not this gender swap happens in the film, this should not be a surprise. Hollywood is moving toward a full-scale change in how it treats faith. Instead of elevating secularism over faith, ...

Belief in the supernatural — including life after death and the idea that animals and nature can possess spirits — is common ...

Only four days have passed since his election to the papacy, and Pope Leo XIV made it a point to hold an audience with the men and women who were in Rome to report on the death of Pope Francis, the ...

Pizzaballa’s name has been included in almost every list == in secular and Catholic media — of “papabile,” or “pope able” ...

The big U.S. Supreme Court decisions due in the coming two months include three cases on the religion clauses in the ...

Christian faith threatens Russian President Vladimir Putin because it is out of his control. As such, his war on Ukraine has ...

President Trump, whose administration has cut USAID and slapped tariffs on other nations in recent weeks, imposed sanctions ...

One of the most interesting lines of survey research in the last couple of years has been led by Tyler VanderWeele at Harvard ...