MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The shift, molded by plummeting church attendance, increasingly traditional priests and growing numbers of young Catholics searching for more orthodoxy, has reshaped parishes ...

How women’s roles have changed in the Black church. Debates about women’s roles in the church are back in the headlines, but a lot of them leave out a large and important group of American Christians: ...

WORCESTER — With the number of priests shrinking, enterprising young women are finding themselves playing a bigger role in the Catholic Church. Data from the Center for Applied Research in the ...

“In the whole history of the Orthodox Church in America, this has never been seen,” a priest said about the surge of young men drawn to the demanding practice of Christianity. “The Orthodox Church is ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Generations of Catholics who embraced the modernizing tide sparked in the 1960s by Vatican II are increasingly giving way to religious conservatives who believe the church has ...