Catholicism sees steep decline in Latin America, with more people identifying as religiously unaffiliated - The study encompassed adults in six of the region's most populous countries: Argentina, ...

(RNS) — The survey found the religiously unaffiliated nearly doubled or saw even larger gains in every country.

STORY: Twenty-three-year-old Joshua Steele has found a “great sense of peace” he wasn’t able to feel anywhere else - through Catholicism. “I'd probably say I was looking for meaning in life and before ...

Most Latin Americans are Christian, and Catholicism remains the dominant religion. But the exodus from the church continues in a region that was once a stronghold for the Catholic faith and has close ...

In his Nov. 4 New York Times opinion piece, Catholic pundit Ross Douthat argues that the reforms of Vatican II have proven disastrous for the Church over the past 60 years, in large part because the ...

COMMENTARY: The sensibility on display in the cardinal’s recent article is not that of the Bible, the Fathers of the Church, the Second Vatican Council or the Catechism. Then-Bishop Robert McElroy of ...

Saberton is a passionate believer in a kind of old-school Catholicism where members participate in neighborhood ministry ...

After dropping his youngest son off at soccer practice one day, Daniel Markham happened to remember a nearby church he'd occasionally attended inside the Indiana Dunes National Park near Michigan City ...

For example, 61 percent of Catholics who attend Mass every Sunday said that abortion should be illegal in all or most circumstances. As the life of every Saint testifies, prayer is a crucial part of ...