Czech Cardinal Dominik Duka claimed that the set of questions he recently submitted to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding “the administration of the Eucharist to divorced couples ...
The Vatican has confirmed the heartbreaking news that has shaken the world, sparking a wave of tributes and expressions of ...
LISBON – In the wake of a devastating clerical sexual abuse scandal in a country already buffeted by secularization and increasing pluralism, Pope Francis at the end of his first day in Portugal ...
According to a recent study by Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan research organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., religion is less important for Americans today than it was a ...
There is a very understandable desire among the faithful in Ireland — and elsewhere — to interpret this month’s rejection by Irish voters of a pair of “woke” constitutional amendments as a decisive ...
Amid a record number of baptisms, turning the page on the abuse crisis and rapidly changing society, an "Observatory of Catholicism" was officially launched in June in Paris to produce regular, ...
Ever since the great American Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. found inspiration in the book View of the Hebrews, published by Ethan Smith (no relation) in 1823, and after he claimed to use magical ...
The idea of secularization is fundamental to contemporary debates over the sociology of religion. As sociologist Steve Bruce puts the issue succinctly, “The basic proposition is that modernization ...
The bishops of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) held their spring assembly this week in Italy, a meeting in which they considered the European Union’s vocation ...
Pope Benedict returns to Rome after leading celebrations that marked World Youth Day. He celebrated mass in Germany, his homeland, in front of thousands of people from all over the world. Pope ...
This article was first published in the State of Faith newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Monday night. When researchers study people’s relationship with religion and ...
Members of Catholic religious congregations in South Korea have called for concerted efforts to tackle a decline in vocation and blamed secularization as a cause for the decrease in the number of ...