Pope Francis’ transformative vision for the American church made it more open, but also energized conservative resistance ...

As Holy Week continues, a new study shows Americans are stepping away from church pews but turning to personal spirituality ...

Following the sexual-abuse crisis that badly damaged the Boston Archdiocese, a surge of committed, immigrant parishioners has ...

Pope Francis’s tenure was punctuated by repeated clashes with American political leaders and sweeping efforts to install more ...

Across Argentina, many people flocked to churches to mourn Pope Francis. Some recalled personal encounters before he became pontiff.

The analysis by Pew finds that the proportion of the Catholic population in the United States has fallen over the past decade and a half, as about 24% of the country’s population identified as ...

One icy day in January, the 130-year-old First Methodist Church in Princeton, Indiana, burned to the ground after years of ...

He said the church at McDougall Street and Commor Avenue in Hamtramck is packed to its 600-person capacity every Sunday, with standing-room-only. On Easter, worshippers packed the pews ...

There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and opened its pews to American ...

They joined Church of the Savior last September ... may have coincided with a spiritual turning point for the country. The Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Survey suggests the decades ...

Church bells tolled in mourning. Well-wishers flocked into pews. Tributes to Pope Francis poured in from around the world on ...