The animating question facing the conclave was whether the cardinals want the Church to continue in the direction of a ...

A Pew Research Center study conducted in 2024 found that for every American who converts to Catholicism, another 8.4 leave.

So my co-authors and I chose the title of our 2025 book, "Catholicism at a Crossroads," quite intentionally. The church has been facing a variety of challenges for decades, both nationally and ...

Maureen Day, a researcher at the University of Southern California who has written several books about the contemporary ...

As members of the College of Cardinals prepare for the conclave, they face a profound choice: Build on the late pope’s ...

So my co-authors and I chose the title of our 2025 book, Catholicism at a Crossroads, quite intentionally. The church has been facing a variety of challenges for decades, both nationally and ...

Shortly after 6 p.m. in Rome, the longed-for sight appeared above the Sistine Chapel: white smoke. Over the course of a day and a half, the more than 130 members of the College of Cardinals had ...