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About three-in-ten are “cultural” or former Catholics, or have other ties to the faith, according to Pew Research Center. Read about these groups and why some say they left the religion.
Nearly half of U.S. adults are connected to Catholicism, according to Pew Research Center. Read about going to Mass, Communion, confession and more.
(RNS) — While reporting relatively low levels of attendance at Mass, almost half of US adults (47%) say they have a personal or family relationship to Catholicism, a new Pew Research Center ...
A photographer shooting the landscape of American Catholicism today needs a wide-angle lens.
Catholicism is one of the largest religious groups in the U.S., and many people who don’t identify with the faith still say they have a relationship to it, according to the survey.
One-fifth of U.S. people are Catholic, but nearly half of U.S. adults have some connection to the church, including cultural or former Catholics, or those connected to the church in other ways, a ...
Though 1 in 5 Americans identify as Catholic, a Pew report shows nearly half have a personal connection to the faith.
(RNS) — The president won over a majority of Protestants and Catholics. He did much better among Hispanic and Asian Protestants.
CNA Staff, Jun 16, 2025 / 14:19 pm The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the New York Court of Appeals to revisit Diocese of Albany v. Harris, a case challenging a 2017 New York state mandate ...
The FBI produced over a dozen documents using anti-Catholic terminology and distributed the infamous Richmond memo to 1,000 agents, records show.
The last four popes of the Catholic Church — John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and our new pope, Leo XIV — had hardworking fathers who instilled in each of their sons important traits and ...
At the time, Catholics faced severe persecution in Ireland leading to a multitude of Irish Colleges emerging across Europe, including St Isidore’s, to provide formation for exiled Irish clergy.