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 ...

Canterbury Cathedral has been a significant pilgrimage destination for over a thousand years. Despite the West’s growing secularization, there seems to be no shortage of travelers from around the ...

Canadians are roused by the U.S. president's musings on Canada as America's 51st state and driven apoplectic by his imposition of tariffs on the country. Canada is also a very secular country, but Tru ...

Many of the 30.8 percent of Americans whose mothers have died, as the U.S. Census Bureau counted in 2021, experienced the loss when they were not ready to process the pain. For them and others, such ...

It was the white plume of smoke that ushered in a new pope — and the reaction that the head of the Catholic Church is an American sparked reaction across the nation. Everyone had something to say ...

With clouds of white smoke emanating from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel and to the loud cheers of thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the 133-member conclave elected a new pope on Thursday ...

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

As the U.S. church continues to navigate a changing cultural and technological landscape, Pushpay’s new report makes it clear ...

In his first address as head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV offered a special greeting to the Diocese of Chiclayo in northern Peru, where he once served as a missionary and Archbishop Emeritus.

Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion and Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program, along with Gallup ...

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