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Albany Diocese to undertake planning process that could close one-third of its parishes
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Apr 9, 2025 / 15:37 pm The Diocese of Albany, New York, will undertake a planning initiative in response to a diocesan “financial and maintenance crisis” that the bishop says could result in the closure of “perhaps one-third” of the diocese’s 126 parish churches. Bishop Edward …
Post-election data shows nonreligious population in U.S. has plateaued
By Tessa Gervasini Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 4, 2025 / 07:00 am According to data from the 2024 Cooperative Election Study (CES), the number of Americans who do not identify with any religion has largely stopped rising and has even slightly decreased among certain generations. The Harvard-run CES is conducted before and …
Pew data profiles demographics, beliefs, and practices of U.S. Catholics
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 3, 2025 / 18:32 pm Nearly 20% of adults in the United States — approximately 50 million people — call themselves Catholic, but the American Catholic population is diverse in its beliefs, its adherence to Church teaching, and its religious practices as well as …
Five years later: How some parishes are thriving after weathering COVID lockdowns
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Mar 15, 2025 / 06:00 am Five years ago this week, public health orders issued amid the uncertainty of the novel coronavirus turned Mass schedules across the country and the world upside down. In those early days following the WHO’s March 11, 2020, declaration of COVID-19 …
Yearslong decline in Christianity ‘leveling off’ in U.S., Pew survey shows
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Feb 26, 2025 / 13:35 pm A 20-year-long decline in the number of Americans who identify as Christian may be “leveling off,” according to data released on Wednesday by Pew Research Center. Pew said its most recent Religious Landscape Study showed 62% of U.S. adults identifying as Christian, a number that has …
Analysis shows number of nonreligious Americans stabilizing after prior surge
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 23, 2024 / 06:00 am From the early 1990s through the 2010s, the number of Americans who identified as atheist, agnostic, and nonaffiliated saw a major surge — but that number appears to be stabilizing, according to an analysis published on May 20. Ryan Burge, …
If They Only Knew
About a year ago I applied for a grant to help my fledgling magazine, Embodied, that is grounded in Pope St. John Paul II’s writings about the human person. I was struck by one question: “For whom does your heart break?” This brought an immediate wave of deep sadness, but …
Generation Xers’ church attendance drops to millennial levels, survey suggests
By Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Aug 3, 2023 / 13:30 pm Church attendance has dropped off since the pandemic for Generation X more sharply than for other age groups, according to a new survey. The survey of 2,000 adults conducted by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University found that the …
Gallup poll: Church attendance sees slight uptick; still below pre-pandemic levels
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 28, 2023 / 07:00 am Although church attendance in the United States saw a slight uptick in 2023, fewer Americans are going to church than they did before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, according to a Gallup poll released June 26. Gallup …
German exodus: Half a million Catholics abandon Church in historic departure
By AC Wimmer ACI Africa, Jun 28, 2023 / 08:22 am The Catholic Church in Germany is facing an unprecedented crisis, with more than half a million baptized Catholics leaving the Church in 2022, according to figures released by the German Bishops’ Conference on June 28. This marks the highest number of departures …
