Russell Shaw looks at a report that says the COVID-19 pandemic has considerably sped up the projected decline in the Mass attendance of American Catholics. He writes: “What’s happening is no mystery. As churches closed ...
Pope Francis said that unless there is a serious new wave of COVID-19 infections in Iraq, he has every intention of visiting the country in early March. Even if social distancing requirements mean most Iraqis will ...
In an exclusive interview prerecorded and aired at a U.S. conference, Cardinal George Pell reminded his audience how important the church in the U.S. is for world Catholicism and Western civilization. U.S. Catholicism "is vitally important ...
Christians could soon be a minority in the United States if present demographic trends continue in the coming decades. According to a recent report by the Pew Research Center, over the last 10 years, the ...
Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw writes that while there has been much talk lately of an impending schism among U.S. Catholics because of strong disagreements with Pope Francis, any kind of formal schism ...
As Catholics in the U.S., it’s impossible to ignore the statistics. For decades, participation in the Church has been shrinking. More U.S. Catholics have fallen away: In a 2018 survey from the Center for Applied ...
As events were just getting underway for World Youth Day in Panama City, two U.S. bishops on Jan. 23 addressed the elephant in the room — the resurgence of the clergy sexual abuse crisis over ...
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