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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

There’s a good chance that you may have heard that the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics have a new shepherd. You may have heard this news because, to skilled religion writers (and wise editors who hire ...

One of the most important questions that one has to ask in doing data work is pretty simple: “Compared to what?” Sure, religiosity in the U.S. has dropped over the last half-century, but how does our ...

Sainthood was earned, if not in blood, then in extreme humility and absolute submission to Christ. It was not fast. It was not fashionable. And it certainly was not a reward for being beloved by the ...

Vote of Faith” combines ethnographic storytelling with academic analysis. Readers might find the engaging stories and ...

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

In a presentation at the Associated Church Press annual convention in Chicago, our Weekend Plug-in columnist reflects on his ...

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

What’s in a name? That’s a question Catholics often ask after a new pope is elected. One of his first official acts of a new pope is to choose a name. Deeply symbolic, the name often reflects the pope ...

If words like “radio silent,” “compound” and “too good to be true” didn’t give it away. In the cult setting, “Opus” explores ...