Catholicism is hot right now. The new American pope is popular for speaking his mind on political subjects such as AI and the ...

Read about how Americans who were raised Catholic experienced religion as kids, as well as their reasons for staying in or leaving the faith.

The faith, whether in high-profile politics and culture or just ordinary demographics, seems to be enjoying a certain kind of ...

As an immigrant temporary professed Trinitarian friar in Maryland, I think often about the historical complexity of the Catholic Church in the United States; specifically, I'm curious about how the ...

The Catholic tradition on conscience is very extensive, while being quite unified. One may wonder, if the teaching is so unified, why there would be so much to say. The reason is because the tradition ...

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.

While the ranks of the unaffiliated have grown the most due to changes in religious affiliation, the Catholic Church has lost the most members in the same process; this is the case even though ...

Sydney Johnston grew up in a nondenominational Christian household — but now the Upper West Side millennial is a devout Catholic. “There’s just something so beautiful and transcendent about the ...

Someone was joking recently that the reason the Eastern Orthodox cannot have women bishops is because one can’t call a woman “Patriarch.” Behind the wisecrack is some wisdom, and the existence of ...