In a presentation on the first day of the U.S. bishops’ fall assembly in Baltimore, Bishop Robert Barron, auxiliary of Los Angeles and chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and ...
Despite the disheartening numbers that show more and more young people are leaving the Catholic Church and rejecting faith altogether, there are a number of organizations that have dedicated their time and resources to reaching ...
The Pew Research Center recently released a new study that looks at the changing religious landscape in the United States over the last decade. Gradually but noticeably, people have vacated their place in the pews, ...
Dear U.S. bishops, as laypeople, we are committed to living out our baptismal call to work in cooperation with you to bring Christ to all people. Yet the evidence shows that we, as a Church, ...
New numbers from the Pew Research Center continue to outline a bleak future for believers. The rise in the religiously unaffiliated — the “nones” — continues and now has climbed to 26 percent. To put ...
"None of the above" is the fastest-growing religious identifier in the United States and now approximates the percentage of Catholics in the country. While most of the religiously unaffiliated people, the so-called "nones" are young, ...
I recently finished reading Walker Percy’s second novel, “The Last Gentleman.” I don’t remember having read it before, though the copy that I’ve owned since college some 30 years ago has marks in the margin ...
Although the U.S. bishops' spring assembly in Baltimore was mostly devoted to responding to the sexual abuse crisis in the church, the bishops also considered something described as the second-most important issue currently facing U.S. ...
Americans who do not identify with any religion — the so-called “nones” — are now as big a part of the country’s population as Catholics and evangelical Christians, according to data from the General Social ...
The rise of the “nones” continues. According to an analysis of the Global Social Survey, released in March, the number of Americans now identifying as having “no religion” is equivalent to those who identify as ...
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