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Catholic parishes disproportionately closed in poor, Black and Latino neighborhoods
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — April 5, 2024
(RNS) — Priest shortages have played a significant role in the decisions to close parishes.
She was an early church deacon. Catholic women now want to reclaim her example.
By Yonat Shimron — September 2, 2022
(RNS) — On Saturday (Sept. 3), 56 pilgrims from four countries will gather in Mexico City to celebrate St. Phoebe’s feast day and consider how they might urge the church to reclaim the diaconate for women.
Blocked from serving their church, Catholic women push for female deacons
By Yonat Shimron — September 14, 2021
(RNS) — There is growing momentum to restore women to the diaconate, which would allow women to serve as Catholic chaplains in prisons, hospitals and other settings.
Why the Catholic Church can’t move on from the sex abuse crisis
By Thomas Reese — September 7, 2018
(RNS) — Many Catholic bishops and priests are frustrated by the continued coverage of the sex abuse crisis in the media. They believe they have fixed the problem and the church should be able to move on. People will not let them move on until there is full disclosure of past abuse.
‘Spotlight’ draws a curious — but no longer outraged — crowd
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — November 23, 2015
(RNS) The film may draw more viewers eager to see Mark Ruffalo and Michael Keaton than folks outraged by a 2002 newspaper expose showing the Boston's Catholic Church leaders covered up for predatory priests.
Hola, Papa Francisco! Hispanic Catholics shape US church
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — September 21, 2015
(RNS) The church in the U.S. is more than a third Hispanic -- a young and growing community that forms the face of the American Catholic future.
How Catholic are US Catholics? It’s all in how you measure
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — September 16, 2015
(RNS) Being Catholic is more about beliefs and values than about attending Mass, experts find.
Catholic families: strong on prayer, weak on sacraments
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — July 10, 2015
(RNS) They skip sacraments, and Mass, too, but a new survey of Catholic parents finds some encouraging nuggets: “They still have a relationship with God and pray for their family.”
More Catholics, fewer receiving sacraments: A new report maps a changing church
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — June 1, 2015
Not even the boom of Catholics in the Global South solves a core problem for the church: Rates are falling for baptism, first communion and other essential Catholic ceremonies.
Losing their religion: More women join the unspiritual set
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — February 20, 2015
(RNS) Women increasingly show signs of joining men in letting go of that soulful search for meaning. Who's got time?
Declining number of U.S. nuns, even among traditional orders, charted in new study
By David Gibson — October 13, 2014
(RNS) The more liberal, socially active communities of sisters are drawing about the same number of new entrants as the more conservative, tradition-minded communities: very few.
‘The sky is not falling’ with Hispanic Catholic numbers
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — May 7, 2014
Statistics expert Mark Gray says cancel the panic on the smaller percentage of U.S. Hispanic Catholics. Here's why.
Baptism rates slide despite high-profile boosts
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — October 22, 2013
(RNS) Baptism rates are in steady decline for U.S. Catholics, Southern Baptists and others. Will high profile attention to the ritual from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the pope inspire a change?
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