To what degree will the new pope stand or not stand in continuity with Francis? As a scholar who has studied the writings and actions of the popes since the time of the Second Vatican Council, a ...

The global media storm surrounding the election of Pope Leo XIV will soon fade to some degree (until he wears a Chicago White Sox jersey or something like that). This post centers on the fact that the ...

The Conversation U.S. asked Maureen Day , a researcher at the University of Southern California who has written several books about the contemporary church, to explain what Catholicism looks like in ...

Whether or not this gender swap happens in the film, this should not be a surprise. Hollywood is moving toward a full-scale change in how it treats faith. Instead of elevating secularism over faith, ...

Only four days have passed since his election to the papacy, and Pope Leo XIV made it a point to hold an audience with the men and women who were in Rome to report on the death of Pope Francis, the ...

Belief in the supernatural — including life after death and the idea that animals and nature can possess spirits — is common ...

Christian faith threatens Russian President Vladimir Putin because it is out of his control. As such, his war on Ukraine has ...

One of the most important questions that one has to ask in doing data work is pretty simple: “Compared to what?” Sure, religiosity in the U.S. has dropped over the last half-century, but how does our ...

The big U.S. Supreme Court decisions due in the coming two months include three cases on the religion clauses in the ...

With clouds of white smoke emanating from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel and to the loud cheers of thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the 133-member conclave elected a new pope on Thursday ...

There’s a good chance that you may have heard that the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics have a new shepherd. You may have heard this news because, to skilled religion writers (and wise editors who hire ...

Here are three questions for news consumers who are paying attention to pre-conclave news. These questions play a crucial ...