On a Tuesday evening at a Jesuit house of studies in New York City, a group of seminarians gather around an old wooden table. Books are open, but they’re not breviaries or theological texts. The men ...

Sister Norma Nunez, with the Hospitaler Sisters of Mercy, has served at Metanoia for 10 years. “My vocation is to love the ...

"Evolving Religious Life," a continuing series from Global Sisters Report, explores how Catholic sisters are adapting to the realities of congregations in transition and new forms of religious life.

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 ...

Sometimes we hold on tightly to what feels safe, familiar or comfortable, but life still calls us to let go, to trust, and to make space for something new. As we move from the feast of the Ascension ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dallin H. Oaks, a former Utah Supreme Court justice known for his jurist sensibilities and traditionalist convictions on marriage and religious freedom, is expected to be the ...

Many are of the view that all three of these are happening with religion. Methodologies are changing but seekers are still looking; it is not shrinking, just shifting. It is a complex transition.

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand the religious and spiritual beliefs, practices, and views of the growing number of people around the world who are religiously ...

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 ...

(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, ...