False securities can mislead religious life, but they also invite a return to what truly sustains a vocation. The endurance ...

The document, titled "Be Born Again," is a guide to help the leading organization representing religious life in Latin ...

What do we lose when we lose organized religion, which has been in steep decline across the globe since 2007? Two new books offer very different answers — and very different approaches — to this ...

The tragic terrorist attack on a Chanukah celebration on Bondi Beach happened on the other side of the world, but it could have happened here. In the United States, a nation founded on the promise of ...

James Martin, S.J., addresses the 2025 assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in Atlanta on Aug. 14. Credit: LCWR Editors’ notes: James Martin, S.J., delivered the following speech ...

(RNS) — When it comes to going to church, a generational pattern is playing out in many households around the world: Grandparents never miss Sunday service; parents attend only on holidays; children, ...

On a global level, religious groups expand and shrink due to a mix of factors. Demographic factors, such as age structure, fertility and mortality (or life expectancy), tell us whether people in ...

Religion, particularly Protestantism, was central to the mission of the country’s first universities. Chapels were constructed at the center of campuses. University presidents, often devout, worried ...