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 ...

A few hours after agitators incited by President Donald Trump breached the Capitol, Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, addressed the reconvened representatives, along with a vast television ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Glenn Beck and the Tea Party crowd constantly invoking the Founders, it would be nice to see then discuss the role that virulent anti-Catholicism played in the lead up to the American Revolution.

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 ...