James Toronto addresses the audience. The panelists sat at a cafe-style table during the discussion. (Rory Hill) Highlighting its growth, interfaith collaboration and structural challenges, a recent ...

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. - Psalm 122:1 People don’t attend church at the rate they used to. Multiple studies have borne out this fact. This is not a ...

A new study challenges the belief that church attendance in the U.S. is declining, suggesting it may actually be growing, with weekly attendance rising from 28 percent in 2024 to a projected 32 ...

Amid a national housing shortage and the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, some dioceses are adopting creative approaches to repurpose Church properties, aligning financial obligations with their ...

Let us consider a single area of public media, journalism. The challenges faced by journalists in audio and visual media are numerous. There is, first, the constant competition and the desire for ...

Robert Prevost was elected as Pope Francis' successor on Thursday, May 8, concluding a two-day papal conclave. Hailing from Chicago, Prevost—who has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV—is the first American ...

The greatest challenge facing the Church in Asia today is, of course, the increasing persecution in many places throughout the continent. In the face of that challenge from outside there may be little ...

In May of this year, the Supreme Court ended the hope that an Oklahoma Catholic charter school would be first in the nation to shatter the wall between religion and public schools. Now two schools are ...

Many people who left the Church are NOT coming back. I wrote about why people are leaving the Catholic Church here. Typically, I post the link to my Patheos columns in various Facebook groups. And I ...

A new challenge has surfaced at Wickliffe Presbyterian Church, the oldest church in the city on the corner of Ridge Road and East 300th Street. Chartered in 1893 — worship commencing in the current ...

Sign up for our Newsletters Church leaders estimate that approximately $180,000 worth of damage needs to be repaired. Pipes were ripped out of the infrastructure in ...